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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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Brick Brewery (Keystone)

Brick Brewery, London SE8.

Brewery moved outside LondonOriginal site: 209 Blenheim Grove SE15 4QL (Southwark) Final site in London: 13 Deptford Industrial Estate, Blackhorse Road SE8 5HY (Lewisham)brickbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2013 (at original site)Brewing ceased in London: November 2023

Former head brewer Pete Vick (left) and founder Ian Stewart of Brick.

Like countless […]

Brewhouse and Kitchen

Includes information for The Botanist and The Lamb (closed brewpubs).

Brewhouse and Kitchen, London N1

Brewpubsbrewhouseandkitchen.comHighbury: 2a Corsica Street N5 1JJ (Islington)First sold beer: 22 June 2015

Hoxton: 397 Geffrye Street E2 8HZ (Hackney)First sold beer: December 2018

Islington: Torrens Street EC1V 1NG (Islington)First sold beer: October 2014Brewing suspended: September 2022, unlikely […]

BBNo (Brew by Numbers) (Keystone)

Brew by Numbers, London SE10.

Closed breweryOriginal site: 66 Southwark Bridge Road SE1 0AS (Southwark, since closed)Second site, later pilot brewery: 79 Enid Street SE16 3RA (Southwark, since closed)Barrel Store: 1 Bellenden Business Park SE15 4RF (Southwark, since closed)Production brewery: South Warehouse, Greenwich Beach, Morden Wharf Road SE10 0PA (Greenwich)bbno.coFirst sold beer (at original […]

Bloomsbury Brewery (Perseverance)

Bloomsbury Brewery, London WC1

Brewpub, no longer brewing 63 Lambs Conduit Street WC1N 3NB First sold beer: August 2014 Ceased brewing: October 2015

Bloomsbury began as a small brewery in the cellar of the Perseverance pub, an ex-Charrington free house at the above address, installed by then-owner Pete Millington. It brewed only occasionally […]

Big Smoke Brew Co (Antelope)

Big Smoke Brew Co, Kingston upon Thames (London) KT6

Brewpub, now brewing outside London 87 Maple Road, Surbiton KT6 4AW (Kingston upon Thames) w bigsmokebrew.co.uk First sold beer: September 2014 Ceased brewing in London: March 2019

Ash Zobell and the aptly named Pete Brew reinvented Twickenham’s Sussex Arms as a top class beer […]

Bexley Brewery

Bexley Brewery DA8 (London, Bexley)

Brewery18 Manford Industrial Estate, Manor Road, Erith DA8 2AJ (Bexley)bexleybrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 25 September 2014

This operation on an industrial estate beside the river Thames, by Crayford Marshes on the edge of Erith, is the first standalone brewery in Bexley since Reffell’s was closed by Courage in 1956. It’s […]

Belleville Brewing Co

Belleville Brewery, London SW12

Brewery36 Jaggard Way (taproom 44 Jaggard Way) SW12 8SG (Wandsworth)bellevillebrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: 30 March 2013

Musician Adrian Thomas was prompted to become a homebrewer when he organised a beer festival as a fundraiser for his son’s school, Belleville Primary. He took things a stage further by getting together with nine […]

Beavertown Brewery (Heineken)

Beavertown Brewery, London N17 and Enfield (London) EN3

Breweries and brewpubOriginal site: Duke’s, 33 Downham Road N1 5AA (Hackney) Second site: 4 Stour Road E3 2NT (Tower Hamlets), Tottenham site: 17 Lockwood Industrial Park, Mill Mead Road N17 9QP (Haringey)Former brewpub: Marketplace, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, 782 High Road N17 0BX (Haringey)Production site: 102 East […]

Barnet Brewery (Black Horse)

Barnet Brewery, Barnet EN5 (London).

Brewpub, no longer brewing92 Wood Street, Barnet EN5 4HYblackhorsebarnet.co.ukFirst sold beer: March 2013Ceased brewing: November 2021

This sprawling Victorian pub just outside Barnet town centre was relaunched late in 2012 by Oak Taverns, a group that runs several brewpubs outside London. The 2.5 hl brewery, in an outhouse […]

Anspach & Hobday

Anspach & Hobday, Beddington CR0 (London)(

BreweryOriginal site: 18 Druid Street SE1 2HH (Southwark)Production site: 11 Valley Point Industrial Estate, Beddington Farm Road, Croydon CR0 4WP (Sutton)anspachandhobday.comFirst sold beer: February 2014

When childhood friends and former musicians Jack Hobday and Paul Anspach won a homebrew competition, one of the judges, TV presenter and wine […]