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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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Stag Brewery (AB InBev)

A once-familiar bar mount for Watney’s notorious keg bitter Red Barrel.

This page covers the now-closed Stag Brewery at Mortlake as well as the also-defunct original Stag Brewery at Pimlico. For the more recent attempted revival of the Watney brand see Watneys Beer.

Formerly Watney Mann Truman (Grand Metropolitan), Watney Mann, Watney Combe Reid […]

Closed and renamed London breweries

Brewhouse at the Botanist, Richmond TW9, since moved twice and now at Ignition Brewing.

For historical interest, this is a list of commercial breweries which have operated in London in recent years but have since closed, suspended brewing activities for a significant length of time, switched to brewing on other people’s equipment or relocated […]

Old Street Brewery

Old Street Brewery, London E2

Includes information for Queens Head brewpub.

Closed brewery, former brewpubOriginal site: Queens Head, 66 Acton Street WC1X 9NB (Camden)Second site: 11 Gales Gardens E2 0EJ (Tower Hamlets)Last site: 1 Queens Yard, White Post Lane E9 5EN (Tower Hamlets)First sold beer: January 2015 (as Queens Head), March 2018 (as Old […]

Pressure Drop Brewing

Pressure Drop brewery, London N17.

BreweryOriginal site: 5B Wilmer Business Park, Wilmer Place N16 0LW (Hackney)Second site: 19 Bohemia Place E8 1DU (Hackney)Current site: 6 Lockwood Industrial Park, Mill Mead Road N17 9QP (Haringey)pressuredropbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: 12 January 2013

Former Euston Tap cellarman Graham O’Brien and Sam Smith (no relation to the famous Yorkshire […]

°Plato Brewing

°Plato Brewing, London E8

Closed brewery23 Westgate Street E8 3RL (Hackney)First sold beer: September 2014Ceased brewing: July 2016

This brewing supplies stall run by Canadian-born Adam Khedheri at Netil Market near London Fields also sold own-brewed beers created on a 1.2 hl homebrewing kit in a tiny unit constructed of recycled containers, mainly for […]

Partizan Brewing

Partizan Brewing, London SE16.

Brewery, no longer in LondonOriginal site: 8 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)Second site: 34 Raymouth Road SE16 2DB (Southwark)partizanbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2012Ceased brewing in London: 10 March 2023

Former chef, White Horse Parsons Green cellarman and Redemption brewer Andy Smith had the opportunity to create his own brewery when […]

The Park Brewery

The Park Brewery, Kingston upon Thames (London) KT1

BreweryOriginal site: 95 Elm Road, Kingston upon Thames KT2 6HX (Kingston upon Thames)Current site: 7 Hampden Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 3LG (Kingston upon Thames)theparkbrewery.comFirst sold beer: March 2014

Originally, the Park Brewery was a very small 1.5 hl operation in Kingston started by husband and […]

Orbit Beers

Orbit Beers, London SE17

Brewery225 Fielding Street SE17 3HD (Southwark)(Taproom at 233 Fielding Street SE17 3HJ)orbitbeers.comFirst sold beer: August 2014

Robert Middleton worked in occupational pensions until deciding to take a career break travelling round his native Scotland visiting breweries, resulting in a book, The Tea Leaf Paradox: Discovering Beer in the Land of […]

OMEBEER

Formerly One Mile End, Mulligans.

OME Beer, London N17

Closed brewery, former brewpubOriginal site: White Hart, 1 Mile End Road E1 4TP (Tower Hamlets)Second site: 2 Compass West Estate, West Road N17 0XL (Haringey)First sold beer: June 2013 (at original site as Mulligans; second site first sold beer as Redemption February 2010)Ceased brewing: January […]

Monkey Chews (Montague Arms)

Monkey Chews Brewery, London SE15. Pic: South East London CAMRA.

Closed brewpubMontague Arms, 289 Queens Road SE15 2PAFirst sold beer: June 2015Ceased brewing: by end 2015

The landmark Montague Arms, a big roadside pub between New Cross and Peckham which was once renowned as a music venue, was rescued from potential closure in 2014. Brewing […]