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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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Allsopp’s (Samuel Allsopp & Sons)

Allsopp’s, London.

Beer firmallsopps.comActive since: Autumn 2021

Allsopp’s is an historic brewing name from Burton upon Trent revived in Autumn 2021 by a London-based business with family credentials.

The history dates from around 1730 when Benjamin Wilson brewed in his pub. His great nephew Samuel Allsopp bought the business in 1807 and helped build […]

Hammersmith Craft Brewery

Hammersmith Craft Brewery, London W6

BreweryLower ground floor, 106 Fulham Palace Road W6  9PL (Hammersmith & Fulham)hammersmith.beerFirst sold beer: December 2019

A brewery in a Hammersmith basement which underwent the softest of soft launches in late 2019 before the Covid lockdowns struck. It’s been brewing intermittently ever since, with a small and informal taproom […]

The Roundwood Project

Roundwood Project, London NW10

Brewery24 Excelsior Studios, Sunbeam Road NW10 6JP (Ealing)theroundwoodproject.comFirst sold beer: June 2022

Founded by longstanding homebrewer Shem Wallis-Jones, this is a small brewery in a community of creative businesses in Park Royal.

Beers are currently largely bottled and available very locally.

Updated 4 September 2023.

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2 openings, 3 closures, net change -1.

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London breweries 2002

1 opening, no closures, net change +1.

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Anheuser-Busch UK (Stag) SW14, Richmond upon Thames: AB previously rented this but bought it outright from Scottish Courage this year. Battersea Brewery SW11, Wandsworth, unrelated to current Battersea […]

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No openings, 2 closures, net change -2.

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Brasserie les Sans-Culottes

Closed brewpub27 Endell Street WC2H 9BA (Camden)First sold beer: December 2001Ceased brewing: May 2003

Referred to in some sources as Brasserie Française, this was one of several early 21st century restaurant-brewpub concepts in London. It was based around a French revolutionary theme: the sans-culottes (literally ‘without breeches’, referencing the silk knee breeches favoured by […]

Pitfield Brewery

Pitfield Brewery

Brewery moved from London, since closed8 Pitfield Street N1 6HA (Hackney, original site)4 Hoxton Square N1 6NU (Hackney, second site)Mill Race Lane, Stourbridge Industrial Estate, Stourbridge DY8 1JN (Dudley, outside London, third site)14 Pitfield Street N1 6EY (Hackney, fourth site)The Nurseries, Nayland Road, Great Horkesley, Colchester CO4 5HA (Essex, outside London, fifth […]

Pacific Oriental

Closed brewpub1 Bishopsgate EC2N 3AQ (City of London)First sold beer: November 1999Ceased brewing: by end 2005

One of a smattering of upmarket London venues that experimented with brewing in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this was a substantial pan-Asian restaurant and brewpub in a Grade II-listed former branch of the Royal Bank of […]

London breweries 2004

1 opening, 1 closure, net change 0.

By the end of 2004, there were 14 commercial breweries operating in London, including three brewpubs. These breweries were:

Anheuser-Busch UK (Stag) SW14, Richmond upon Thames Battersea Brewery SW11, Wandsworth, unrelated to current Battersea Brewery Bünker WC2, Camden, brewpub Fuller Smith & Turner W4, Hounslow Grand Union […]