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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
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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.
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"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Crate Brewery, London E9
Beer firm, former brewpub, no longer brewing7 Queens Yard, White Post Lane E9 5EN (Tower Hamlets)cratebrewery.comFirst sold beer: 18 July 2012Brewing ceased: July 2020
Opened just in time for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by New Zealanders Tom and Jess Seaton, of the Counter Café nearby, and friend and […]
Clarkshaws Brewing, London SW9
BreweryOriginal site: 8 Tyrrell Trading Estate, Tyrrell Road SE22 9NA (Southwark)Second site: 283 Belinda Road SW9 7DT (Lambeth)Current site: 497 Ridgway Road SW9 7EX (Lambeth)clarkshaws.co.ukFirst sold beer: 29 September 2013 (at original site)
Self-styled “beer imps” Ian Clark and Lucy Grimshaw’s enterprise began in a small industrial unit in East […]
Bird House Brewery, London SE24
Formerly Canopy Beer Co.
BreweryArch 1127 Bath Factory Estate, 41 Norwood Road SE24 9AJ (Southwark)birdhouselondon.comFirst sold beer (as Canopy): 30 October 2014Brewing suspended: November 2022Brewing resumed (as Bird House): March 2024
Small independent hospitality group Bird House was founded by Frazer Timmerman, formerly at London Fields and Truman’s, with […]
Camden Town Brewery, London NW5 and Enfield (London) EN3
Formerly Horseshoe Brewery, McLaughlins.
BreweriesOriginal site: Horseshoe, 28 Heath Street NW3 6TE (Camden)Arch 55 brewery and beer hall: 55 Wilkin Street Mews NW5 3NN (Camden) Production brewery: Morson Road, Enfield EN3 4TJ (Enfield)camdentownbrewery.comFirst sold beer: May 2006 (as McLaughlins)
Now one of London’s biggest breweries, […]
By the Horns Brewing Co, London SW17
Brewery, brewing at London site currently suspended25 Summerstown SW17 0BQ (Wandsworth)bythehorns.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2011
Alex Bull and Chris Mills, then only three years out of university, started brewing on an industrial estate between Earlsfield and Wimbledon in September 2011, using a bespoke 9 hl kit from […]
Still and Star, London E1
George and DragonBrewpub, no longer brewing 151 Cleveland Street W1T 6QN (Westminster)First sold beer: December 2016Ceased brewing: November 2017
Still and StarClosed brewpub1 Little Somerset Street E1 8AH (City of London)First sold beer: December 2014Ceased brewing: June 2015
W1 (Burlington Arms)Brewpub, no longer brewing21 Old Burlington Street W1S 2JL […]
Includes information for Bull and Finch and So What Brewing Co.
Bullfinch Brewery, London SE24
BreweryOriginal site: 118 Druid Street SE1 2HH (Southwark)Current site: 886 Rosendale Road SE24 9EH (Lambeth)thebullfinchbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 1 February 2014
BrewpubBull and Finch, 126 Gipsy Hill SE19 1PL (Southwark)First sold beer: April 2022
Bullfinch mural at the like-named brewery. […]
Brodie’s Beers, London E10
Includes information for Sweet William Brewery.
Beer firm, former brewpub Original site: William IV, 816A High Road E10 6AE First sold beer: November 2000 (as Sweet William), 20 August 2008 (as Brodie’s) Ceased brewing: July 2016
The story of this major early contributor to the revival of London brewing […]
Brockley Brewery, London SE4 and SE12
Brewery28 Chiltonian Industrial Estate SE12 0TX (Lewisham)brockleybrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2019
Suspended brewery (remains open as bar)31 Harcourt Road SE4 2AJ (Lewisham)First sold beer: 22 March 2013Brewing suspended: September 2024
Brockley was founded at the initiative of Andy Rowland and five neighbours in 2013 in response to a […]
Brixton Brewery, London SW9
Brewery547 Brixton Station Road SW9 8PF (Lambeth)brixtonbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2013
Closed brewery1 Dylan Road SE24 0HL (Lambeth)First sold beer: June 2018Ceased brewing: September 2024
Conceived as early as 2011 by homebrewing neighbours Jez Galaun and Mike Ross, Brixton eventually opened two years with a 10 hl brewhouse from Oban […]
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