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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
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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
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"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Bertie Belcher’s Sutton Brewery, Sutton SM1 (London)
Brewpubs no longer brewing
Hedgehog and Hogshead Highbury259 Upper Street N1 1RU (Islington)First sold beer: September 1995Ceased brewing: Early 1998
Hedgehog and Hogshead Sutton2 High Street, Sutton SM1 1HN (Sutton)First sold beer: September 1995Ceased brewing: Early 1998
Three years after selling his pioneering Firkin pubs, entrepreneur David […]
Barking Brewery, Barking IG11 (London)
Closed brewery
6 Riverside Works, Hertford Road, Barking IG11 8BB (Barking & Dagenham)First sold beer: August 1985Ceased brewing: Spring 1986
A rare brewery in London’s eastern fringes, this was founded in a Barking industrial unit by David Jones. It turned out to be a short-lived project, and I’ve been […]
Tooley Street Brewery, London SE1
Closed brewery
52 Tooley Street SE1 2QN (Southwark)First sold beer: 1984Ceased brewing: 1985
An early example of a Southwark railway arch brewery, Tooley Street was established to supply beer to the Dickens Inn pub, across the river Thames at St Katherine’s Dock.
The pub, which still operates today (Marble […]
4 openings, 3 closures, net change +1.
By the end of 1983, there were 18 commercial breweries operating in London, including nine brewpubs. 4 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:
Battersea Brewery (Prince of Wales, Conway brewpubs) SW11, Wandsworth, brewpub NEW! Burkes’s Brewery (Lion) CR0, […]
2 openings, 2 closures, net change 0.
By the end of 1982, there were 17 commercial breweries operating in London, including six brewpubs. 3 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:
Burkes’s Brewery (Lion) CR0, Croydon, brewpub Chudley & Co W9, Westminster Fox and Firkin (Bruce’s […]
6 openings, 1 closure, net change +5.
By the end of 1981, there were 17 commercial breweries operating in London, including eight brewpubs. 3 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:
Burkes’s Brewery (Lion) CR0, Croydon, brewpub NEW! Chudley & Co W9, Westminster NEW! Fox and […]
Brixton Brewery (1980s), London SW9
Closed brewpubs
Battersea BreweryPrince of Wales, 339 Battersea Park Road SW11 4LS (Wandsworth)First sold beer: August 1983Ceased brewing: 1989
Brixton BreweryThe Warrior, 242 Coldharbour Lane SW9 8SE (Lambeth)First sold beer: 1984Ceased brewing: 1989
Note: both these breweries were entirely unrelated to the current Battersea Brewery and Brixton Brewery.
By […]
McDonnell’s, London SE18.
Brewpubs closed or no longer brewing
Queen Victoria, 118 Wellington Street SE18 6XY (Greenwich)First sold beer: October 1983Ceased brewing: November 1987
Antigallican (McDonnells Free House), 428 Woolwich Road SE7 8SU (Greenwich)First sold beer: December 1987Ceased brewing: 1989
Licensee John McDonnell installed a malt extract brewery at his Woolwich free house the […]
The Windsor Castle, London N2, in 2023.
Brewpub no longer brewing
The Walks, Church Lane N2 8DL (Barnet)First sold beer: September 1981Ceased brewing: 1983
Despite having no previous relevant experience, licensee David Eaves began brewing, likely using extract, at this attractively cottagey East Finchley pub, then a free house, in 1981. He made one […]
Burke’s Brewery, Croydon CR0 (London)
Closed brewpub
Lion Inn, 182 Pawsons Road, Croydon CR0 2QD (Croydon)First sold beer: December 1981Ceased brewing: 1986
The Burke Family installed a 10 hl brewery, likely full mash, at the Lion Inn in Croydon in 1981 to supply the pub and two other free houses they owned in central […]
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