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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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Small Beer Brew Co

Small Beer Brew Co, London SE16

Brewery70 Verney Road SE16 3DH (Southwark)theoriginalsmallbeer.comFirst sold beer: November 2017

In the 17th century, small beer was the lowest-strength product of a brewery, consumed daily by people of all ages in preference to water. It was usually made by sparging (rinsing) the mash a final time after the […]

Spartan Brewery

Spartan Brewery, London SE16

Beer firm, former and planned future breweryspartanbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 23 June 2018Brewing suspended: 17 June 2023

Software engineer Colin Brooks and financial risk analyst Mike Willetts homebrewed together for over five years before making their first commercial beers under the Spartan brand as cuckoos at now-closed shared Bermondsey brewery UBREW […]

St Mary’s Brewery

St Mary’s Brewery, London NW3

Brewery, no visitors pleaseSt Mary’s Church, Elsworthy Road NW3 3DJ (Camden)stmarysbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2017Brewing suspended: July 2022Brewing resumed: October 2024

Stephen Reynolds, church warden at St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, started this brewery as a way of raising money for the church’s youth work. The first beer, […]

Anomaly Brewing

Anomaly Brewing, New Malden (London)

Brewery, no visitors pleaseNew Malden KT3 5RU (Kingston upon Thames)anomalybrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2018

Graphic designer Adam Sutton began homebrewing in 2017 and became a part-time professional a little over a year later, working on a small 1.5 hl direct-fired kit in a converted garage at his New Malden […]

Two Tribes

Two Tribes, London N7

BreweryOriginal site: 3 Jubilee Estate, Horsham RH13 5UE (West Sussex , outside London)Current site: 4 Tileyard Studios, Tileyard Road N7 9AH (Islington)(Taproom at Campfire, Tileyard Studios)twotribes.co.ukFirst sold beer: 2000 (as W J King in Horsham), 4 April 2018 (as Two Tribes at London site)

Interestingly, this unashamedly modern brewery and […]

Urban Alchemy Brewing Co

Urban Alchemy Brewing Co, New Barnet (London)

Suspended brewery, no visitors pleaseNew Barnet EN5 (Barnet)urban-alchemy-brewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: December 2019Brewing suspended: March 2023

Four friends who had been homebrewing together for 10 years – Simon Morley, Matt Javes, Neill Boscoe and David Boldrin – drew on their mix of brewing, engineering, chemistry and IT skills […]

Villages Brewery

Villages Brewery, London SE8

Brewery21 Resolution Way SE8 4NT (Lewisham)villagesbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 9 December 2016

Currently the only actual brewery in a cluster of beer-friendly venues around Deptford station, Villages occupies two arches, with space extending into a lean-to at the back, under the same historic railway as in Bermondsey but a little further […]

Watling Street Beer

Watling Street Beer, London N17

Closed breweryOriginal site: Hillfield Lane, Aldenham WD25 (Hertfordshire, outside London)Second site: Unit 2A, 6 Greycaine Rd, Watford WD24 7GP (Hertfordshire, outside London)Final site: 8 Triumph Trading Estate, Tariff Road N17 0EB (Haringey)watlingstreetbeer.comFirst sold beer: January 2015 (at original site)Ceased brewing: by June 2020

As London’s brewing scene continued to […]

Oddly Beer

Oddly Beer, London N11.

Closed breweryOriginal site: 12 Platts Eyot, Hampton TW12 2HF (Richmond upon Thames)Second site: 6 Triumph Trading Estate, Tariff Road N17 0EB (Haringey)Last site: Friern Barnet N11 (Barnet)First sold beer: March 2017Ceased brewing: by early 2023

Taking his brand name from expressions such as ‘oddly delicious’, Brian Watson began cuckoo-brewing in […]

Tiny Vessel Brewing Co

Tiny Vessel, Hampton TW12 (London)

Brewery, no visitors please505 Platts Eyot, Hampton TW12 2HF (Richmond upon Thames)tinyvessel.co.ukFirst sold beer: December 2016Brewing suspended: by November 2021Brewing resumed: March 2022

One of London’s most unusually located breweries as well as one of its smallest, Tiny Vessel is in a small workshop on Platts Eyot, a privately-owned […]