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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
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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.
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"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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E5 Bakehouse, London E8
Brewpub, brewing currently suspendedOriginal site: 395 Mentmore Terrace E8 3PH (Hackney)Current site: E5 Poplar Bakehouse, 2 Cotall Street E14 6TL (Tower Hamlets)e5bakehouse.comFirst sold beer: December 2017 (at original site)Brewing suspended: March 2020
This specialist bakery is noted for making its own kvass, a low alcohol beer popular in eastern Europe. […]
Old Kent Road Brewery, London SE6
Closed breweryCatford SE6 (Lewisham)oldkentrdbrewery.co.uk First sold beer: December 2019Brewing ceased: January 2022
Will O’Neale and David Clack’s beers inspired by the history of the Old Kent Road first appeared early in 2016, cuckoo brewed at UBREW and, later, various other facilities. They then moved to working from their […]
ORA Brewing, London N17
Includes information for Brewheadz
Brewery16A Rosebery Industrial Park N17 9SR (Haringey)orabeer.comFirst sold beer: May 2017 (as Brewheadz); May 2019 (as ORA)
An alluring fusion of northern Italian and London craft beer culture, ORA was founded in October 2016 in Modena, Emilio-Romagna, where two of its owners still live, but has […]
Perivale Brewery, Greenford (London) UB6
BreweryHorsenden Farm, Horsenden Lane North, Greenford UB6 7PQ (Ealing)perivale.beerFirst sold beer: December 2018
Nestling under Horsenden Hill, a rural oasis managed as a public green space amid deep west London suburbia, Perivale is London’s only farm brewery. It operates from the curtailage of a Victorian farmhouse in an idyllic […]
Pillars Brewery, London E17
Brewery2 Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street E17 9HQ (Waltham Forest)pillarsbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2016
One of several welcome recent initiatives dedicated to brewing decent lager in London, Pillars (originally Four Pillars, though shortened just before the beer launched) was founded by brothers Eamonn, Samie and Omar Razaq with their friend […]
Pinnora Brewing, Pinner (London) HA5
Brewery, no visitors please2 Jubilee Parade (rear), West End Avenue, Pinner HA5 1BB (Harrow)pinnora.ukFirst sold beer: 30 March 2019
Taking its name from the first recorded name for Pinner in the 13th century, Pinnora was set up by two local brothers, Gareth and Gawain Cox, who have been involved […]
Pretty Decent Beer Co, London E17
BreweryOriginal site: 338 Sheridan Road E7 9EF (Waltham Forest)Current site: 10 Uplands Business Park, Blackhorse Lane E17 5QL (Waltham Forest)prettydecentbeer.coFirst sold beer: May 2017 (at original site)
When charity worker James Casey joined the swelling ranks of new London brewers, he was determined that his enterprise would be […]
Deviant & Dandy, London E9
Closed brewery185 Nursery Road E9 6PB (Hackney)First sold beer: 30 January 2018Ceased brewing: 4 November 2023
This intriguingly named outfit at one end of Hackney’s ‘beer row’ was the second brewery co-founded by US exile Byron Knight, who previously helped set up Beavertown. Byron was the original ‘deviant’ while […]
Reunion Ales, Feltham TW13 (London).
Closed brewery16 Vector Park, Forest Road, Feltham TW13 7EJ (Hounslow)First sold beer: January 2016Ceased brewing: August 2020
When former financial specialist Francis Smedley decided to turn his passion for homebrewing into a profession, he settled on Feltham as a location with plenty of local demand but no local brewery. […]
Broken Drum, Sidcup DA15 (London)
Brewpub308 Westwood Lane, Sidcup DA15 9PT (Bexley, brewing offsite nearby)thebrokendrum.co.ukFirst sold beer: 4 October 2018
Former ICT professional Andy Wheeler opened a micropub in a former nail bar at Blackfen in April 2015, between Welling and Sidcup in the shadow of the A2 Rochester Way flyover.
In 2018, Andy […]
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