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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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Howling Hops Brewery

Includes information for Short Stack.

Howling Hops, London E9

Cock TavernBrewpub, brewing suspended315 Mare Street E8 1EJ (Hackney)First sold beer: 24 July 2012 (as Howling Hops)Brewing suspended: by end 2019 (as Short Stack)

Howling Hops Tank barBrewpub9 Queens Yard E9 5EN (Tower Hamlets)howlinghops.co.ukFirst sold beer: June 2015

The Cock Tavern, a classic corner pub […]

SALT London (Ossett Brewery)

SALT London, London SE!8

Includes information for Hop Stuff Brewery

Brewery moved outside London, planned brewpub Unit 9, 35 White Hart Avenue SE28 0GU (Greenwich)First sold beer: August 2018 (as Hop Stuff)October 2018 (SALT Beer Factory at Shipley, West Yorkshire)Brewing suspended: April 2019Brewing restarted: December 2019Brewing suspended: March 2020Brewing restarted: December 2021 (as SALT […]

Hammerton Brewery

Hammerton Brewery, London N7

Brewery8 Roman Way Industrial Estate, 149 Roman Way N7 8XH (Islington)hammertonbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 30 April 2014

Former IT business analyst Lee Hammerton had already made plans to fill an obvious gap in the market by starting a brewery near his home in Islington when he discovered he was distantly related […]

Hackney Brewery

Hackney Brewery, London E17

BreweryOriginal site: 358 Laburnum Street E2 8BB (Hackney)Current site: 10 Lockwood Way E17 5RB (Waltham Forest)hackneybrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: June 2012 (at original site)

Former homebrewers Peter Hills and Jon Swain both worked at Islington pub the Charles Lamb when they decided to join the growing ranks of East London brewers […]

Gipsy Hill Brewing Co (Sunrise Alliance)

Gipsy Hill Brewing, London SE27

BreweryUnit 11, 160 Hamilton Road SE27 9SF (Lambeth)gipsyhillbrewing.comFirst sold beer: July 2014

One of London’s biggest independent breweries, Gipsy Hill has a target to grow output to 24,000 hl in the next few years. Its footprint on the industrial estate in the like-named neighbourhood it calls home has grown […]

Fuller’s Griffin Brewery (Asahi)

Fuller’s Griffin Brewery, London W4

Formerly Fuller, Smith & Turner. Includes information for the original Lamb Brewery

BreweryChiswick Lane South W4 2QB (Hounslow)fullersbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 1701 (as Mawson’s)

Shockwaves ran through the London brewing scene on 25 January 2019 when Fuller, Smith & Turner, London’s biggest brewery and its oldest by far, announced it […]

Fourpure Brewing Company (In Good Company)

Fourpure Brewing, London SE16

Closed brewery25 Bermondsey Trading Estate, Rotherhithe New Road SE16 3LL (Southwark)fourpure.comFirst sold beer: October 2013Ceased brewing: September 2024

Always one of London’s most ambitious new breweries, Fourpure became one of the biggest. Founded as the fourth Bermondsey brewery by former City technology firm executive Dan Lowe and his brother Tom, […]

40FT Brewery

40FT Brewery, London E8

BreweryBootyard, Abbot Street E8 3DP (Hackney)40ftbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 5 July 2015

The brainchild of German-born former London Fields and Truman’s head brewer Ben Ott and three homebrewing business partners, brothers Fredrik and Andreas Pettersson and current chief executive Steve Ryan, this outfit was named after its home in a converted […]

The Five Points Brewing Co

The Five Points Brewing Co, London E8

BreweryOriginal site: 3 Institute Place E8 1JE (Hackney, brewing ceased March 2021)Current site: 61 Mare Street E8 4RG (Hackney)fivepointsbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: 22 March 2013 (at original site)

Five Points is one of the claimants to the title of London’s biggest independent brewery, producing around 18,000 hl in […]

Temple Brew House (City Pubs/Young’s)

Formerly Essex Street Brewing.

Temple Brew House, London WC2

Brewpub46 Essex Street WC2R 3JF (Westminster)templebrewhouse.com/breweryFirst sold beer: 20 December 2014, as Essex Street BrewingBrewing suspended: March 2020Brewing restarted: May 2022

Pub chain the City Pub Co already had brewpubs in Bath and Cambridge when it added a London branch near the Temple late in […]