They say…

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

Ads


Old Fountain Brewhouse

Old Fountain Brewhouse, London EC1

Brewpub, brewing currently suspended3 Baldwin Street EC1V 9NU (Islington)oldfountain.co.ukFirst sold beer: July 2016Brewing suspended: November 2019

This former Whitbread pub has been in the Durrant family since 1964 and has been a free house since 2002. In mid-2017, a small in-house brewery was added: a 50 l Braumeister kit […]

Forest Road Brewing Co

Forest Road Brewery, London SE14.

Brewery1A Elizabeth Industrial Estate, Juno Way SE14 5RW (Lewisham)forestroadbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2021

The outspoken Pete Brown (not to be confused with the like-named beer writer), originally from Massachusetts, began homebrewing when living in New York City. Moving to the UK, he worked at Siren and Camden Town, and […]

Enefeld (Enfield Brewery)

Enefield Brewery, London N18

Closed brewery17A Eley Road N18 3BB (Enfield)enefeld.comFirst sold beer: June 2015Ceased brewing: February 2022

This Lea Valley outfit was the only contemporary London brewery to source water from its own well. It was founded by Rahul Mulchandani on a site adjacent to his family’s cash and carry warehouse just off […]

Bohem Brewery

Bohem Brewery, London N17

BreweryOriginal site: 227 Whittington Road N22 8YW (Enfield)Current site: 5 Littleline House, 43 West Road N17 0RE (Haringey)bohembrewery.comFirst sold beer: June 2016 (at original site)

One of the most unusual and remarkable new breweries in London and indeed the UK, Bohem focuses on serious craft lagers in the Czech tradition, […]

Big Hug Brewing

Big Hug Brewing, London

Beer firmbearhugbrewing.comActive from: February 2014

Though a few early brews in 2014 were on a pilot kit under the name Bear Hug, this trio of friends based in Peckham reconciled themselves to hobo brewer status after a fruitless search for sites. The name was changed to Big Hug in May […]

London breweries addenda 2019

London breweries, Lost, Honest Brew, Beatnikz Republic […]

Zerodegrees Blackheath

Zerodegrees brewery, London SE3.

Brewpub29 Montpelier Vale SE3 0TJ (Lewisham)zerodegrees.co.ukFirst sold beer: August 2000

Remarkably, this popular local beer and pizza venue is now the capital’s oldest-established independent brewery as well as its longest-serving brewpub. It was one of the first in the UK to draw inspiration from the US craft brewing scene, following […]

Wimbledon Brewery

Wimbledon Brewery, London SW19

Brewery8 College Fields, Prince Georges Road SW19 2PT (Merton)wimbledonbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 10 July 2015

The original Wimbledon Brewery, and the last in the area for over a century, stood in the High Street between 1832 and 1889, when it burned down: somewhat ironically, a fire station was built on the […]

Wild Card Brewery

Wild Card Brewery, London E17.

Closed breweryOriginal site: 7 Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street E17 9HQ (Waltham Forest) Final site: 2 Lockwood Way E17 5RB (Waltham Forest)wildcardbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: April 2014 (at original site)Ceased brewing: October 2024

Wild Card was the creation of three university friends, Andrew Birkby, William John Harris and former chemical […]

Twickenham Fine Ales

Twickenham Fine Ales, Twickenham TW2 (London)

BreweryOriginal site: Ryecroft Works, Edwin Road, Twickenham TW2 6SP (Richmond upon Thames) Current site: 18 Mereway Road, Twickenham TW2 6RG (Richmond upon Thames)twickenham-fine-ales.co.ukFirst sold beer:November 2004 (at original site)

Now something of a London veteran, Twickenham Fine Ales is the fourth oldest of all the London breweries and […]