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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
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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 […]

Freedom Brewery

Freedom Brewery, ex-London, now Staffordshire.

Includes information for Bünker, Soho Brewing Co and Zebrano.

Brewery no longer in LondonOriginal site: The Coachworks, 80 Parsons Green Lane SW6 4HU (Hammersmith & Fulham)freedombrewery.comFirst sold beer: 1995Ceased brewing: 2001 (at this site)

Freedom Covent Garden41 Earlham Street WC2H 9LX (Camden)First sold beer: 1998 (as Soho Brewing Co)Ceased […]

London breweries 2005

1 opening, 5 closures and suspensions, net change -4.

By the end of 2005, there were 10 commercial breweries operating in London, including three brewpubs. One was part of a multinational group (M). These breweries were:

Anheuser-Busch UK (Stag, Anheuser-Busch M) SW14, Richmond upon Thames Battersea Brewery SW11, Wandsworth Brew Wharf SE1, Southwark, brewpub […]

Mash

Formerly Mash 2.

Closed brewpub19 Great Portland Street W1W 8QB (Westminster)First sold beer: March 1998Ceased brewing: by end 2006

An upmarket restaurant and brewpub just off Oxford Circus, Mash played a role in the prehistory of the current London craft brewing scene and in the career of one of the capital’s most prominent brewing […]

London breweries 2006

1 opening, 2 closures, net change -1.

By the end of 2006, there were nine commercial breweries operating in London, including three brewpubs. One was part of a multinational group (M). These breweries were:

Anheuser-Busch UK (Stag, Anheuser-Busch M) SW14, Richmond upon Thames Battersea Brewery SW11, Wandsworth Brew Wharf SE1, Southwark, brewpub Fuller Smith […]

London breweries 2007

2 openings, 2 closures, net change 0.

By the end of 2007, there were nine commercial breweries operating in London, including five brewpubs. One was part of a multinational group (M). These breweries were:

Anheuser-Busch UK (Stag, Anheuser-Busch M) SW14, Richmond upon Thames Brew Wharf SE1, Southwark, brewpub Cock and Hen SW6, Hammersmith & […]

London breweries 2008

2 openings and revivals, 1 closure, net change +1.

By the end of 2008, there were 10 commercial breweries operating in London, including five brewpubs. One was part of a multinational group (M). These breweries were:

AB InBev UK (Stag, AB InBev M) SW14, Richmond upon Thames Brew Wharf SE1, Southwark, brewpub Brodie’s Fabulous […]

London breweries 2009

2 openings, no closures, net change +2.

By the end of 2009, there were 12 commercial breweries operating in London, including five brewpubs. One was part of a multinational group (M). These breweries were:

AB InBev UK (Stag, AB InBev M) SW14, Richmond upon Thames Brew Wharf SE1, Southwark, brewpub Brodie’s Fabulous Beers (William […]