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Des de Moor
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.
Des de Moor

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Three Hills Brewing The Outpost

Three Hills Brewing The Outpost, London SE16.

Brewery moved outside LondonOriginal site: 4 Thrapston Road, Woodford, Kettering NN14 4HY (Northamptonshire, outside London)London site: 7 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)Current site: 5 Cosy Nook, Thrapston, Kettering NN14 4PS (Northamptonshire, outside Londonthreehillsbrewing.comFirst sold beer: October 2016 (at original site), September 2020 (at London site)Ceased brewing in […]

Jawbone Brewing

Jawbone Brewing, Twickenham TW1 (London)

BreweryUnit C, 1 Strawberry Vale, Twickenham TW1 4RY (Richmond upon Thames)jawbonebrewing.comFirst sold beer: December 2020

Energetic former Weird Beard brewer Ben Hughes has found a characterful and attractive location for this solo project, in a working boatyard on the Thames by Swan Island in Twickenham, next to riverside Radnor […]

Drop Project Brewing Co

Drop Project Brewing Co, Mitcham CR4 (London)

Brewery8 Willow Business Centre, 17 Willow Lane, Mitcham CR4 4NX (Merton)www.drop-project.co.ukFirst sold beer: March 2021

Two former members of the Gipsy Hill team, John “JT” Taylor and Joe Simo, got together with friend Will Skipsey to launch this eco-conscious enterprise in October 2019, originally cuckoo brewing at […]

Dogs Grandad Brewery

Dogs Grandad Brewery, London SW9

Closed brewery550 Brixton Station Road SW9 8PF (Lambeth)First sold beer: March 2021Ceased brewing: November 2023

Passionate homebrewer and hardcore metal singer Alex Hill speculates that he may have set up his railway arch brewery “for the cheapest price ever” as he installed and built much of it himself.

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Distortion Brewing

Distortion Brewing, London SW8

Brewery647 Portslade Road SW8 3DH (Wandsworth)distortionbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: February 2019 (at original site)

Inspired by a road trip to the US West Coast in 2007, Andy North began developing recipes in his garage, eventually taking on an arch under Wandsworth Road Overground station in his native Battersea in 2020.

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London’s Best Beer book launch

London’s 140 breweries and flourishing beer scene are celebrated this autumn in the long-awaited third edition of my award-winning guidebook London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars, published by CAMRA books. The fully updated and revised essential guide to London beer launches on 18 November with a special event at the impressive new Sambrook’s taproom […]

Beer tours restart, new book out soon.

I’m pleased to announce that, following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, my programme of beer tours has resumed from September 2021 onwards.

In another sign that London’s beer scene is getting back to something like a (new) normal, the long-awaited 3rd edition of my book London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars is at last […]

London’s Best Beer: archive

Note this is an archive page for content about previous editions of my London guidebook London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars. Information about the most recent edition.

London’s Best Beer second edition The CAMRA Guide to London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars by Des de Moor, 2nd edn 2015

Best beer and travel writing […]

Haggards Brewery (Imperial Arms)

Closed breweryNine Elms SW8 (Wandsworth)First sold beer: 1998Ceased brewing: by end 2005

Tim Haggard left his job as City accountant in 1997 with plans to set up a brewery with his brother Andrew, but the opportunity soon arose to take over and refurbish a Fulham pub, the Imperial Arms at 577 Kings Road SW6 […]

Guinness Park Royal (Diageo)

Guinness London beermat

For the planned Guinness central London brewpub, see Guinness at Old Brewers Yard.

Closed breweryLakeside Drive, Park Royal NW10 7HQ (Ealing)guinness.comFirst sold beer: 1936 (at this site)Ceased brewing: 2005 (at this site, still brewing outside London)

Guinness is of course an Irish brewery but its early history was strongly shaped by […]