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


Three Sods Brewery

Three Sods Brewery, London E8

Closed breweryOriginal site: Bethnal Green Working Mens Club, 42 Pollard Row E2 6NB (Tower Hamlets)Final site: 339 Mentmore Terrace E8 3PH (Hackney)threesodsbrewery.comFirst sold beer: January 2015 (at original site)Brewing ceased: August 2022

Three business partners created this small but interesting brewery late in 2014, adopting its apparently self-deprecatory name […]

Tap East

Tap East microbrewery Stratford City, London E20.

Brewpub7 International Square, Westfield Stratford City E20 1EE (Newham)tapeast.co.ukFirst sold beer: 10 November 2011

When Westfield opened its massive Stratford City shopping mall adjoining the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in September 2011, it invited the team at Utobeer to create a brewpub for the Great Eastern Market, […]

Southwark Brewing Co

Southwark Brewing, London SE1

Brewery46 Druid Street SE1 2EZ (Southwark)southwarkbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2014

Unusually for the owner of a new London brewery, Southwark co-founder Peter Jackson is an industry veteran, with many years at Whitbread and Marston’s on his CV, including as marketing director at the latter. He created this brewery, the fifth […]

Signature Brew

Signature Brew, London E17

BreweryOriginal production site: 25 Leyton Business Centre, Etloe Road E10 7BT (Waltham Forest) Current site: 15 Uplands Business Park, Blackhorse Lane E17 5QJ (Waltham Forest)signaturebrew.co.ukFirst sold beer: January 2014 (at Leyton site)

Beer and music lovers Tom Bott and Sam McGregor, the latter also a musician, originally conceived Signature as […]

Ram Inn (Laine)

Formerly SlyBeast Brewing.

SlyBeast Brewing (Ram Inn), London SW18

Brewpub, no longer brewing68 Wandsworth High Street SW18 4LB (Wandsworth)theraminnsw18.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2019 (as SlyBeast, see also Ram Brewery under Sambrook’s)Brewing suspended: May 2022Brewing resumed: Autumn 2022 (by Coalition)Brewing ceased: January 2024

Commercial brewing returned to the historic Ram brewery in central Wandsworth in […]

Young & Co’s Brewery (Ram Brewery)

Young’s, Ram Inn, Wells, London breweries […]

Sambrook’s Brewery

Sambrook’s Brewery, London SW18

Includes information for current brewery. For more about the history of the current site, and the non-commercial Ram Brewery active 2007-21, see Young & Co’s Brewery (Ram Brewery).

BreweryOriginal site: 1 Yelverton Road SW11 3QG (Wandsworth)Current site: 1 Bellwether Lane SW18 1UD (Wandsworth)sambrooksbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2008

Disappointed by the […]

Redemption Brewing

Redemption Brewing, London N17

BreweryOriginal site: 2 Compass West Estate, West Road N17 0XL (Haringey) Current site: 16 Compass West Estate, West Road N17 0XL (Haringey) redemptionbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: February 2010

Redemption was one of the first of the current wave of new London breweries and the first in what’s now the brewing hotbed […]

Exale Brewing

Exale Brewing, London E17

Includes information for Soul Rebel Brew Co and Hale Brewing.

Brewery2C Uplands Business Park E17 5QJ (Waltham Forest)twitter.com/exalebrewingFirst sold beer: 12 December 2019 (as Exale Brewing)

Hale Brewing (Five Miles)Brewpub no longer brewing39B Markfield Road N15 4QA (Haringey)First sold beer: December 2016 (as Affinity), March 2018 (as Hale)Ceased brewing: August […]

Weird Beard Brew Co

Weird Beard Brew Co, London W7.

Includes information about Ellenberg’s

Brewery no longer in London5 Boston Business Park, Trumpers Way W7 2QA (Ealing)weirdbeardbrewco.comFirst sold beer: 17 March 2013Ceased brewing in London: Feburary 2022

Two separate companies founded by award-winning homebrewers and London Amateur Brewers members who met at an IPA tasting launched in 2011 […]