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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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Kanpai London Craft Sake

Kanpai London Craft Sake, London SE1

BreweryOriginal site: 11 Print Village, 58 Chadwick Road SE15 4PU (Southwark)Second site: 2A-2 Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Road SE15 3SN (Southwark)Current site (from September 2023): 48 Druid Street SE1 2EZ (Southwark)kanpai.londonFirst sold beer: June 2017

The first sake brewery in the UK and one of only seven in […]

Babel Beerhouse

Previously Little Creatures Regents Canal.

Babel Beerhouse, London N1

Brewpub, brewing currently suspended1 Lewis Cubitt Walk N1C 4DL (Camden)babelbeerhouse.comFirst sold beer: 5 May 2019 (as Little Creatures Regents Canal)Brewing suspended: August 2022Brewing resumed: March 2023Brewing suspended again: December 2023

This substantial brewpub in the Kings Cross redevelopment opened in May 2019 as the London […]

The Mad Yank Brewery

The Mad Yank Brewery, Pinner (London) HA5

Closed breweryPinner HA5 (Hillingdon)First sold beer: 23 February 2019Ceased brewing: by March 2023

German-born former marketing specialist Larissa Graeber and her husband Grant, who came to the UK as an officer with the US Navy based in Northwood, originally planned a brewery in central London with a […]

Magic Spells Brewery

Magic Spells Brewery, London E10

Brewery, likely no longer brewing in LondonHare Wines, 24 Rigg Approach E10 7QN (Waltham Forest)magicspellsbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: June 2017Brewing ceased in London: by July 2021

This brewing offshoot of Leyton-based drinks wholesaler Hare Wines started when owner Jas Hare noticed both the quality and booming popularity of the London-brewed […]

Muswell Hillbilly Brewers

Muswell Hillbilly, London N10

Brewery4 Avenue Mews (taproom at 14) N10 3NP (Haringey)muswellhillbillybrewers.co.ukFirst sold beer: April 2016

Nodding in their name to local heroes the Kinks, the Hillbillies are also a quartet, though currently still holding their day jobs and working on the brewery part-time. Homebrewers Martin Hodgson and Pete Syratt began the project […]

Mutineers Brewery

Mutineers Brewery, Bromley (London) BR1

Brewery, no visitors pleaseBromley BR1 4HE (Bromley)mutineers.beerFirst sold beer: October 2018

Inspired by an “experience day” at London Fields, engineer Rob Vote began homebrewing with friends Gareth Bathers, Lee Hayes and Joe Miles. They later graduated to small-scale commercial brewing using a 1 hl three-tier kit at a private […]

Neckstamper Brewing

Neckstamper Brewing, London E10

Brewery3 Cromwell Industrial Estate, Staffa Road E10 7QZ (Waltham Forest)neckstamper.comFirst sold beer: January 2017

Another member of the Lea Bridge brewery cluster, Neckstamper boasts a 16 hl Dave Porter kit in a small industrial unit, with a taproom right next to the brewing floor. Founder and long-time homebrewer Adam Jefferies […]

Nirvana Brewery

Nirvana Brewery, London E10

BreweryT6 Leyton Industrial Village, Argall Avenue E10 7QP (Waltham Forest)nirvanabrewery.comFirst sold beer: May 2017

Founded by Steve Dass and Becky Kean, this operation in a modern industrial unit at Lea Bridge specialises in low alcohol beers. Everything is properly brewed and fermented from traditional ingredients but using reduced amounts of […]

Eel Pie Brew School (Ricardo’s Cellar)

Eel Pie Brew School, Twickenham (London) TW1

Closed brewery, beer firm44 Church Street, Twickenham TW1 3NT (Richmond upon Thames)ricardoscellar.co.ukFirst sold beer: January 2018Ceased brewing: March 2020

For a while this was probably London’s smallest commercial brewery, occupying a corner of a shop unit shared with a delicatessen and a record dealer in Twickenham’s historic […]

Marko Paulo Brewery (Owl and the Pussycat)

Marko Paulo / Ealing Brewing, London W13

Includes information for Ealing Brewing.

Brewpub106 Northfield Avenue W13 9RT (Ealing)markopaulo.co.ukFirst sold beer: 2 December 2016Brewing suspended: September 2021Brewing resumed: June 2023

Closed production breweryEaling BrewingBrewery4 The Ham, Brentford TW8 8HE (Hounslow)First sold beer: 2 November 2019Ceased brewing: June 2023

The Owl and the Pussycat opened in […]