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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
Accredited Beer Sommelier
Writer of "Probably the best book about beer in London" - Londonist
"A necessity if you're a beer geek travelling to London town" - Beer Advocate
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"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Bertie Belcher’s Brewery Co (Hedgehog and Hogshead)

Bertie Belcher’s Sutton Brewery, Sutton SM1 (London)

Brewpubs no longer brewing

Hedgehog and Hogshead Highbury259 Upper Street N1 1RU (Islington)First sold beer: September 1995Ceased brewing: Early 1998

Hedgehog and Hogshead Sutton2 High Street, Sutton SM1 1HN (Sutton)First sold beer: September 1995Ceased brewing: Early 1998

Three years after selling his pioneering Firkin pubs, entrepreneur David […]

Barking Brewery

Barking Brewery, Barking IG11 (London)

Closed brewery

6 Riverside Works, Hertford Road, Barking IG11 8BB (Barking & Dagenham)First sold beer: August 1985Ceased brewing: Spring 1986

A rare brewery in London’s eastern fringes, this was founded in a Barking industrial unit by David Jones. It turned out to be a short-lived project, and I’ve been […]

Tooley Street Brewery

Tooley Street Brewery, London SE1

Closed brewery

52 Tooley Street SE1 2QN (Southwark)First sold beer: 1984Ceased brewing: 1985

An early example of a Southwark railway arch brewery, Tooley Street was established to supply beer to the Dickens Inn pub, across the river Thames at St Katherine’s Dock.

The pub, which still operates today (Marble […]

London breweries 1983

4 openings, 3 closures, net change +1.

By the end of 1983, there were 18 commercial breweries operating in London, including nine brewpubs. 4 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:

Battersea Brewery (Prince of Wales, Conway brewpubs) SW11, Wandsworth, brewpub NEW! Burkes’s Brewery (Lion) CR0, […]

London breweries 1982

2 openings, 2 closures, net change 0.

By the end of 1982, there were 17 commercial breweries operating in London, including six brewpubs. 3 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:

Burkes’s Brewery (Lion) CR0, Croydon, brewpub Chudley & Co W9, Westminster Fox and Firkin (Bruce’s […]

London breweries 1981

6 openings, 1 closure, net change +5.

By the end of 1981, there were 17 commercial breweries operating in London, including eight brewpubs. 3 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:

Burkes’s Brewery (Lion) CR0, Croydon, brewpub NEW! Chudley & Co W9, Westminster NEW! Fox and […]

Conway brewpubs

Brixton Brewery (1980s), London SW9

Closed brewpubs

Battersea BreweryPrince of Wales, 339 Battersea Park Road SW11 4LS (Wandsworth)First sold beer: August 1983Ceased brewing: 1989

Brixton BreweryThe Warrior, 242 Coldharbour Lane SW9 8SE (Lambeth)First sold beer: 1984Ceased brewing: 1989

Note: both these breweries were entirely unrelated to the current Battersea Brewery and Brixton Brewery.

By […]

McDonnell’s

McDonnell’s, London SE18.

Brewpubs closed or no longer brewing

Queen Victoria, 118 Wellington Street SE18 6XY (Greenwich)First sold beer: October 1983Ceased brewing: November 1987

Antigallican (McDonnells Free House), 428 Woolwich Road SE7 8SU (Greenwich)First sold beer: December 1987Ceased brewing: 1989

Licensee John McDonnell installed a malt extract brewery at his Woolwich free house the […]

Windsor Castle

The Windsor Castle, London N2, in 2023.

Brewpub no longer brewing

The Walks, Church Lane N2 8DL (Barnet)First sold beer: September 1981Ceased brewing: 1983

Despite having no previous relevant experience, licensee David Eaves began brewing, likely using extract, at this attractively cottagey East Finchley pub, then a free house, in 1981. He made one […]

Burke’s Brewery (Lion)

Burke’s Brewery, Croydon CR0 (London)

Closed brewpub

Lion Inn, 182 Pawsons Road, Croydon CR0 2QD (Croydon)First sold beer: December 1981Ceased brewing: 1986

The Burke Family installed a 10 hl brewery, likely full mash, at the Lion Inn in Croydon in 1981 to supply the pub and two other free houses they owned in central […]