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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
"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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Freedom Brewery, ex-London, now Staffordshire.
ABV: 4.4% Origin: London WC2, England Website: freedombrewery.com First published: 8 January 2001
Another review from the archive written for the pioneering Oxford Bottled Beer Database (OBBD). I’ve left it uncorrected — so please read it in that historical spirit.
It’s interesting to look back at this one […]
The old Truman Black Eagle brewery in Brick Lane. Pic: Christine Matthews for Geograph. Creative Commons license.
Saturday 6 August 2016, 1030hrs Sunday 14 August 2016, 1030hrs
This year there are two opportunities to join me during the week of the Great British Beer Festival and London Beer City for a fascinating walking […]
Brewhouse and Kitchen Highbury: a newer, bigger kit than originally planned in one of London’s newest brewpubs.
It’s now a year since the main text of the latest edition of The CAMRA Guide to London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars was finalised, and speciality brewing in the city continues to expand. The most […]
Newly granular London beer marketing at Hop Burns and Black.
As I recently wrote in London Drinker magazine, the young William Blake had a vision of angels in a tree on Peckham Rye Common. I had a revelation of a different kind in more-or-less the same spot. Towards the end of a lengthy […]
1971 vintage Evening Standard Pub of the Year plaque still in situ in Fulham. Pic: Edwardx, Wikipedia Creative Commons.
By the end of 1971, there were 11 commercial breweries operating in London, none of them brewpubs. 6 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:
Charrington Brewery […]
Hop monsters — the true London beer style?
When the late great beer writer Michael Jackson wrote The World Guide to Beer, the book that’s usually acknowledged as introducing the modern concept of beer styles, in 1977, he could hardly have guessed that, less than 40 years later, interpretations of nearly all the […]
Historic riverside pub the Dove in Hammersmith, on the Fuller’s Country walk. Pic: Fuller’s.
I’m combining my walking and my beer interests to help celebrate the London beer renaissance during London Beer City week in August. I’ll be launching my new Beer Badge Guides project with two great walking tours taking in the […]
The Craft Beer Co, London SW9.
London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates Southwest London: Brixton
Bar, specialist (Craft) 11 Brixton Station Road SW9 8PD T 020 7274 8383 w thecraftbeerco.com/location/brixton-london f craftbeercosw9 tw thecraftbeerco Open 1600 (1200 Fri-Sun)-2300 (2400 Thu, 0200 Fri-Sat, 2230 Sun, 1 hour later for Mon-Thu Brixton Academy shows). […]
The Lamb Brewery, London W4. PIc: Convivial.
London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates West London: Chiswick
Contemporary pub, brewpub (Convivial) 9 Barley Mow Passage W4 4PH T 020 8994 1880 w www.lambbrewery.com f !lambbrewery tw BarleyMowPub Open 1100 (1000 Sat-Sun)-2300 (2400 Fri-Sat, 2230 Sun). Children welcome until mid-evening. Cask beer 6 (Lamb, […]
The Lofty Turtle, London SW14
London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates Southwest London: Other location – East Sheen
Bar, specialist (Independent) 505 Upper Richmond Road SW14 7DE T 020 8878 1995 w loftyturtle.com f The-Lofty-Turtle tw theloftyturtle Open 1700 (1200 Fri, 1100 Sat-Sun)-2400 (2330 Sun). Children welcome until 1930. Cask beer 1 […]
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