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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
"A joy to read" - Roger Protz
"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Parakeet City Brewing

Parakeet City Brewing, London W5.

Cosed breweryEaling W5 (Ealing)First sold beer: October 2020Brewing ceased: January 2022

Brewers Thomas and Martin, who grew up locally, took responsibility for every aspect of the brewing process at this small home-based operation, working as sustainably as possible with a 2.5 hl kit.

Motivated partly by the relative paucity […]

Marlix Brewing Co

Marlix Brewing Co, Petts Wood BR5 (London).

Brewery, visitors by appointment onlyPetts Wood BR5 (Bromley)marlix.co.ukFirst sold beer: December 2020

Old friends Mark Irwin and Alex Mears had been homebrewing together for 20 years before starting this part-time, home-based brewery, currently in action once a month at the weekend.

Beers are brewed in small batches […]

Mellor’s Brewing Co

Mellor’s Brewing Co, London SE8.

Closed brewery and beer firmOriginal site: Harringay N4 (Harringey)Second site: Suffolk, outside LondonFirst sold beer: May 2021 (at original site)Moved outside London: September 2021, ceased brewing on own kit by end 2021, company wound up January 2024.

This was originally a part-time self-built 1.5 hl nanobrewery created by homebrewer […]

Mammoth Beer

Mammoth Beer, London E15.

Brewery1-28 Echo Building, East Bay Lane E15 2SJ (Waltham Forest)mammothbeer.comFirst sold beer: January 2021

London beer veteran Mark Pether bought the disused 16 hl brewhouse (once at Ascot Ales and now on its seventh owner) from his former employer Crate when they went into administration and took it across the […]

Macintosh Ales

Macintosh Ales, London W6.

Beer firm, suspended breweryOriginal site: Stamford Brook W6 (Hammersmith and Fulham)Taproom: 1 Bouverie Road, London N16 0AH (Hackney)macintoshales.comFirst sold beer: January 2018Brewing suspended: by June 2023

Charlie Macintosh began commercial brewing with a mission to make “modern, balanced ales that respect the ingredients and tradition” on a domestic scale, using […]

Greywood Brewery

Greywood Brewery, London N22.

Closed breweryWood Green N22 (Haringey)greywoodbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: March 2020Ceased brewing: by end 2021

Designer and beekeeper Adam Armstrong had been a keen homebrewer for several years when the management at his local pub suggested he make a commercial brew for them. The result was this part-time home-based brewery working in […]

The Greater Good Fresh Brewing Co (Pinter)

The Greater Good Fresh Brewing Co (Pinter), London E17.

Brewery (of sorts), no visitors please11A Uplands Business Park E17 5QJ (Waltham Forest)pinter.co.ukFirst sold beer: September 2020

The brainchild of two former musical festival promoters, Ralph Broadbent and Alex Dixon, this isn’t a conventional brewery but supplies a hi-tech home beer-making gadget, the Pinter, billed […]

The East Side Brewery

The East Side Brewery, Romford RM3 (London).

Closed brewery5B Elms Industrial Estate, Church Road, Romford RM3 0HU (Havering)First sold beer: May 2021Ceased brewing: October 2022

Founded by lawyer and homebrewer Rash Singh Mahal with the help of brewer Thomas Newman on an industrial estate in the Ingrebourne valley near Harold Wood, this 8 hl […]

Mikkeller Brewpub London

Mikkeller Brewpub, London EC1..

Brewpub37 Exmouth Market EC1R 4QL (Islington)mikkellerbrewpublondon.comFirst sold beer: July 2020

Prolific Danish nomad brewery Mikkeller, founded by Mikkel Borg Bjergsø, opened its first London bar in October 2018, teaming up with Mikkel’s unlikely childhood hero, 1980s pop idol turned beer connoisseur Rick Astley.

A second London venue, also in partnership […]

Werewolf Beer

Werewolf Beer, London NW1..

BreweryOriginal site: The Rose and Crown, 71 Torriano Avenue NW5 2SG (Camden)Current site: 87 Randolph Street NW1 0SR (Camden)werewolfbeer.comFirst sold beer: December 2020 (at original site)Brewing suspended: Early 2021Brewing resumed: February 2022 (at current site)

This “American brewery in London” (thus the name, a reference to the film An […]