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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
"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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Kentish Town Brewery

Kentish Town Brewery, London NW5

Brewery not currently brewing, no visitors pleaseKentish Town NW5 1UF (Camden)kentishtownbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2017Brewing suspended: by October 2019

This small home-based brewery was placed on hold in late 2019 while brewer Mark Drayton made a trip to Australia for family reasons. He expected to return and resume brewing […]

Fearless Nomad Brewing (Black Dog)

Fearless Nomad Brewing, Brentford (London) TW8

Brewpub not currently brewing17 Albany Road, Brentford TW8 0NF (Hounslow)blackdogbeerhouse.co.ukFirst sold beer: 18 January 2020Brewing suspended: by June 2023

After many years setting up and operating beer-friendly pubs for other companies, Ash Zobell and brothers Pete and James Brew refurbished and reopened this pub in a Brentford backstreet […]

Up the Creek Brewery (Greenwich Brewery)

Up the Creek Brewery, London SE10

Brewpub302 Creek Road SE10 9SW (Greenwich)up-the-creek.comFirst sold beer: 31 October 2018

Perhaps not the most obvious place you’d expect to find an in-house brewery, Greenwich institution Up the Creek is a comedy club in a former church hall founded by the late comedian Malcolm Hardee in 1991. But […]

Gravity Well Brewing Co

Gravity Well Brewing Co, London N17.

BreweryOriginal site: 142 Tilbury Road E10 6RE (Waltham Forest)Current production site: 1 Compass West Estate, 33 West Road N17 0XL (Haringey)gravitywellbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: September 2018 (at original site)

Founder Ben Duck had already given up his career as a financial lawyer before deciding to turn the appealing mix […]

Queen’s Head Shoreditch

Formerly Goose Island Brewpub Shoreditch.

Queen’s Head Shoreditch, London E1

Former brewpub221 Shoreditch High Street E1 6PJ (Hackney)queensheadshoreditch.comFirst sold beer: 21 November 2018Ceased brewing: September 2022, brewhouse removed by November 2023

Chicago brewery Goose Island, founded in 1988 and part of AB InBev since 2011, established its first London home, the Vintage Ale House, […]

The Goodness Brewing Co

The Goodness Brewing Co, London N22

Brewery5a Clarendon Yard, Coburg Road N22 6TZ (Haringey)thegoodnessbrew.coFirst sold beer: September 2019 (at own site)

The Goodness emerged out of the amusingly named Wood Green Hopping City, founded in 2016 as one of several community hop collectives in London, groups of locals who grow hops in gardens and […]

German Kraft

German Kraft, London SE1

Brewpubsgermankraftbeer.com

Mercato Metropolitano Elephant42 Newington Causeway SE1 6DR (Southwark)First sold beer: 10 March 2018

Mercato Mayfair13A North Audley Street W1K 6ZA (Westminster)First sold beer: November 2020

Kraft Dalston130A Kingsland High Road E8 2LQ (Hackney)First sold beer: December 2020

The first German Kraft opened in December 2017 in the first Mercato […]

Gan Yam Brew Co

Gan Yam Brew Co, London SE17

Brewery, now brewing outside London149 Hillingdon Street SE17 3JH (Southwark)ganyambrew.co.ukFirst sold beer: December 2018Ceased brewing in London: January 2021

This very small brewery began as a cuckoo in 2018 but has also brewed commercially on a 1.5 hl home-based kit. The name means ‘go home’ in Cumbrian dialect […]

Hackney Church Brew Co

Hackney Church Brew Co, London E8

Brewpub16 Bohemia Place E8 1DU (Hackney)hackneychurchbrew.coFirst sold beer: 16 June 2018

This handsome brewpub in two railway arches on Hackney’s ‘brewery row’ was co-founded by head brewer Ryan Robbins, originally from Missouri, who oversees a 20 hl automated brewhouse from German suppliers Braukon, complete with water purifier and […]

Husk Brewing

Husk Brewing, London E16

Suspended breweryOriginal site: 58A Railway Arches, North Woolwich Road E16 2AA (Newham)Current site: The Factory Project, Factory Road E16 2HB (Newham, no visitors please)Taproom: 1A Brunel Street Works, 5 Silvertown Way, London E16 1EAhuskbrewing.comFirst sold beer: January 2016Brewing suspended: February 2023

Despite its original address and against London expectations, this […]