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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.
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UBREW

UBREW, London SE16

Closed breweryArches 29-30, 24 Old Jamaica Road SE16 4AWFirst sold beer: March 2015Ceased brewing: September 2019

Opened following a crowdfunding campaign by charismatic Canadian Matt Denham with graphic designer Wilf Horsfall in two railway arches behind the old Neckinger Mills in February 2015, this was the seventh of the current generation of Bermondsey […]

Sultan Brewery (Hopback)

Sultan Brewery, London SW19

Brewpub no longer brewing78 Norman Road SW19 1BThopback.co.ukFirst sold beer: March 2015Ceased brewing: November 2015

In a South Wimbledon back street, the well-loved Sultan has been the only London pub owned by Wiltshire’s Hopback brewery since 1995. A small brewhouse was installed in a shed in the garden early in 2015, producing […]

Strawman Brewery

Strawman Brewery, London SE15.

Closed breweryOriginal site: 6 Émigré Studios, 274 Richmond Road E8 3QW (Hackney)Second and final site: Arch 77, 878 Old Kent Road SE15 1NQ (Lewisham)First sold beer: June 2013Ceased brewing: January 2015

This very small brewery was originally in an arch near London Fields but soon outgrew the site and in […]

Rocky Head Brewery

Rocky Head brewery, London SW18.

Closed brewery16 Glenville Mews, Kimber Road SW18 4NJ (Wandsworth)First sold beer: 29 September 2012Brewing ceased: by December 2017

Rocky Head once claimed to be “possibly the most ramshackle brewery in the UK”, with an 8 hl kit pieced together by wine importer and former Oddbins staffer Steve Daniel and […]

Redchurch Brewery

Redchurch Brewery, London E2

Brewery moved from LondonOriginal site: 275 Poyser Street E2 9RL (Tower Hamlets)redchurch.beerCurrent site: 15 River Way, Harlow CM20 2SE (Essex)First sold beer: September 2011Ceased brewing in London: May 2019

Former solicitor Gary Ward and partner Tracey Cleland named this brewery after Redchurch Street, where they lived in Shoreditch, first launching […]

George and Dragon

Dragonfly Brewery, London W3

Also known as Dragonfly, Portobello at the George

Brewpub no longer brewing 183 High Street W3 9DJ (Ealing)georgeanddragonacton.co.ukFirst sold beer: May 2014 (as Dragonfly) Ceased brewing: January 2019 (as Portobello at the George)

Now Acton’s oldest building, the George is a coaching inn likely created by knocking two 17th century […]

Maregade Brew Co

Maregade Brewery, London E8/E9

Closed breweryOriginal site: Cock Tavern, 315 Mare Street E8 1EJ (Hackney) Second and last site: 214 Ponsford Street E9 6JU (Hackney)First sold beer: September 2015 (at original site)Ceased brewing: January 2019

After Howling Hops shifted production from its original home in the cellar of Hackney’s Cock Tavern to a much […]

Little Brew

Closed brewery no longer in LondonOriginal site: Unit 21, 43 Carol Street NW1 0HT (Camden)First sold beer: June 2012Ceased brewing in London: October 2013

The name Little Brew referenced both the size of the operation, a 1.5 hl kit installed in a Camden Town back street late in 2011, and the last name of […]

Solvay Society

Solvay Society, London E11

Includes some information for Ha’penny, Hops and Glory and Warrant Officer.

Closed brewery223 Dyers Hall Railway Arches E11 4AF (Waltham Forest)First sold beer: March 2014 (at Warrant Officer)Ceased brewing: 17 December 2022

Closed brewery8 Aldborough Hall Farm, Aldborough Hatch, Ilford IG2 7TD (Redbridge)First sold beer: October 2009 (as Ha’penny Brewing)Suspended […]

Hoppy Collie Brewery

Hoppy Collie brewery, London

Closed brewery106 Fulham Palace Road W6 9PL (Hammersmith & Fulham)First sold beer: March 2013Ceased brewing: by end 2013

Californian expat homebrewer Travis Mooney installed a 2 hl kit in a basement under Hammersmith’s Symposio restaurant (now Kenta) during 2012, and after a few pilot runs, began selling US-influenced beers in […]