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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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Meantime Brewing Company (Asahi)

Meantime, London SE10

Closed breweryOriginal site: Units G-H2 Penhall Lane SE7 8RX (Greenwich)Last site: 1 Lawrence Trading Estate, Blackwall Lane SE10 0ARmeantimebrewing.comFirst sold beer: April 2000Ceased brewing: 1 May 2024

Old Brewery GreenwichBrewpub no longer brewingPepys Building, Old Royal Naval College SE10 9LW First sold beer: February 2010Brewing ceased: January 2016

Founded by one of […]

Long Arm Brewery (ETM)

Long Arm Brewery, London EC2

BrewpubOriginal site: Ealing Park Tavern, 222 South Ealing Road W5 4RL (Ealing)Current site: 20 Worship Street EC2A 2DX (Islington)longarmpub.co.ukFirst sold beer: March 2015 (at original site)

The brewing arm of the ETM pub group, owned by brothers Ed and Tim Martin, began operations in 2015 with a 10 hl […]

London Brewing Co

London Brewing, London N12

BrewpubOriginal site: The Bull, 13 North Hill N6 4AB (Haringey)Current site: The Bohemia, 762 High Road N12 9QH (Barnet)londonbrewing.comFirst sold beer: September 2011 (at the Bull)

Dan Fox, former manager of legendary beer pub the White Horse, took over Highgate pub the Bull in 2011, establishing the London Brewing Co […]

Gorgeous Brewery (N6, Haringey)

Former brewpub, no longer brewing in LondonThe Bull, 13 North Hill N6 4BXgorgeousbrewery.comFirst sold beer: September 2011 (as London Brewing), August 2016 (as The Bull Brewing Co)Ceased brewing in London: Feburary 2022

Dan Fox, former manager of legendary beer pub the White Horse in Parsons Green, set up on his own in 2011 by […]

The London Beer Factory (SE27, Lambeth)

The London Beer Factory, London SE27

Brewery no longer in LondonBrewery: 160 Hamilton Road SE27 9SF (now closed)Barrel vault: The Barrel Project, 80 Druid Street SE1 2HQthelondonbeerfactory.comFirst sold beer: August 2014Ceased brewing in London: August 2022

The London Beer Factory began as an ambitious undertaking just across the yard from Gipsy Hill brewery. It […]

Left Bank Brewery

Left Bank Brewery

Brewery no longer in London Original site: 1 Sutherland Road Path E17 6BX leftbankbrewery.co.uk First sold beer: September 2014 Ceased brewing in London: by end 2017

On its inception, Left Bank described itself as “probably London’s smallest commercial brewery, ” brewing on a licensed pilot kit working alongside bread and […]

Southey Brewing Co

Southey Brewing Co, London SE20

Also contains information for Late Knights and Shamblemoose

Brewery21 Southey Street SE20 7JDsoutheybrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: 5 May 2013 (as Late Knights/Shamblemoose)

Southey is a successor to the Late Knights brewery, founded by former licensee Steve Keegan, who helped devise Fuller’s early ‘craft’ pubs the Barrel and Horn in […]

Laine Brew Co (Peoples Park Tavern)

Laine Brewing, London E9

Laine’s Brew LabBrewpub no longer brewingPeoples Park Tavern, 360 Victoria Park Road E9 7BT (Hackney)peoplesparktavern.pubFirst sold beer: February 2014Ceased brewing: by January 2022

Laine: ActonBrewpub no longer brewingThe Aeronaut, 264 High Street W3 9BH (Ealing)First sold beer: November 2013Ceased brewing: December 2016

Laine: Thieves BreweryBrewpub no longer brewingFour Thieves, 51 […]

CTZN Brew

Includes information for Kew Brewery.

CTZN Brew, London SW14

Closed brewery477 Upper Richmond Road West SW14 7PU (Richmond upon Thames)ctznbrew.comFirst sold beer: 7 June 2015 (as Kew Brewery)Brewing ceased: December 2021

Ex-Weird Beard brewer Dave Scott struck out on own under the name Kew Brewery, originally jointly managed with his wife Rachel. A 10 […]

The Kernel Brewery

The Kernel Brewery, London SE16

BreweryOriginal site: 98 Druid Street SE1 2HQ (Southwark)Current site: 11 Dockley Road Industrial Estate (taproom at Arch 7) SE16 3SF (Southwark)thekernelbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 1 December 2009

Evin O’Riordan, originally from Waterford, Ireland, worked in the mid-2000s for specialist cheesemongers Neal’s Yard Dairy. His job took him to New York […]