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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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°Plato Brewing

°Plato Brewing, London E8

Closed brewery23 Westgate Street E8 3RL (Hackney)First sold beer: September 2014Ceased brewing: July 2016

This brewing supplies stall run by Canadian-born Adam Khedheri at Netil Market near London Fields also sold own-brewed beers created on a 1.2 hl homebrewing kit in a tiny unit constructed of recycled containers, mainly for […]

Partizan Brewing

Partizan Brewing, London SE16.

Brewery, no longer in LondonOriginal site: 8 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)Second site: 34 Raymouth Road SE16 2DB (Southwark)partizanbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2012Ceased brewing in London: 10 March 2023

Former chef, White Horse Parsons Green cellarman and Redemption brewer Andy Smith had the opportunity to create his own brewery when […]

The Park Brewery

The Park Brewery, Kingston upon Thames (London) KT1

BreweryOriginal site: 95 Elm Road, Kingston upon Thames KT2 6HX (Kingston upon Thames)Current site: 7 Hampden Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 3LG (Kingston upon Thames)theparkbrewery.comFirst sold beer: March 2014

Originally, the Park Brewery was a very small 1.5 hl operation in Kingston started by husband and […]

Orbit Beers

Orbit Beers, London SE17

Brewery225 Fielding Street SE17 3HD (Southwark)(Taproom at 233 Fielding Street SE17 3HJ)orbitbeers.comFirst sold beer: August 2014

Robert Middleton worked in occupational pensions until deciding to take a career break travelling round his native Scotland visiting breweries, resulting in a book, The Tea Leaf Paradox: Discovering Beer in the Land of […]

OMEBEER

Formerly One Mile End, Mulligans.

OME Beer, London N17

Closed brewery, former brewpubOriginal site: White Hart, 1 Mile End Road E1 4TP (Tower Hamlets)Second site: 2 Compass West Estate, West Road N17 0XL (Haringey)First sold beer: June 2013 (at original site as Mulligans; second site first sold beer as Redemption February 2010)Ceased brewing: January […]

Monkey Chews (Montague Arms)

Monkey Chews Brewery, London SE15. Pic: South East London CAMRA.

Closed brewpubMontague Arms, 289 Queens Road SE15 2PAFirst sold beer: June 2015Ceased brewing: by end 2015

The landmark Montague Arms, a big roadside pub between New Cross and Peckham which was once renowned as a music venue, was rescued from potential closure in 2014. Brewing […]

Mondo Brewing (Hogs Back)

Mondo Brewing, London SW8

Brewery86 Stewarts Road SW8 4UG (Wandsworth)mondobrewingcompany.comFirst sold beer: April 2015

In a distinctive industrial building on a quiet street between Battersea Power Station and Clapham, Mondo was created by two US expat homebrewers, Tom Palmer and Todd Matteson.

After some early pilot beers at UBREW, it began commercial production in March 2015 […]

London’s Best Beer: Trebles all round

Brixton Brewery brands its new site in August 2018, financed by Heineken.

London’s Best Beer, the book that chronicled the seemingly unstoppable expansion of beer and brewing in the UK’s capital, will soon be back for a third edition. I’m just starting work on completely revising and updating this award-winning guide from CAMRA Books […]

Moncada Brewery

Moncada Brewery, London NW2

Brewery, taproomOriginal site: 5 Grand Union Centre, West Row W10 5AS (Kensington & Chelsea)Second site: 1 Buspace Studios, Conlan Street W10 5AP (Kensington & Chelsea)Final site: 37 Humber Road NW2 6EN (Brent)moncadabrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 22 October 2011Ceased brewing: by September 2021

Former chef Julio Moncada, originally from Argentina, was planning […]

Meantime Brewing Company (Asahi)

Meantime, London SE10

Closed breweryOriginal site: Units G-H2 Penhall Lane SE7 8RX (Greenwich)Last site: 1 Lawrence Trading Estate, Blackwall Lane SE10 0ARmeantimebrewing.comFirst sold beer: April 2000Ceased brewing: 1 May 2024

Old Brewery GreenwichBrewpub no longer brewingPepys Building, Old Royal Naval College SE10 9LW First sold beer: February 2010Brewing ceased: January 2016

Founded by one of […]