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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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Bullfinch Brewery

Includes information for Bull and Finch and So What Brewing Co.

Bullfinch Brewery, London SE24

BreweryOriginal site: 118 Druid Street SE1 2HH (Southwark)Current site: 886 Rosendale Road SE24 9EH (Lambeth)thebullfinchbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 1 February 2014

BrewpubBull and Finch, 126 Gipsy Hill SE19 1PL (Southwark)First sold beer: April 2022

Bullfinch mural at the like-named brewery. […]

Brodie’s Fabulous Beers

Brodie’s Beers, London E10

Includes information for Sweet William Brewery.

Beer firm, former brewpub Original site: William IV, 816A High Road E10 6AE First sold beer: November 2000 (as Sweet William), 20 August 2008 (as Brodie’s) Ceased brewing: July 2016

The story of this major early contributor to the revival of London brewing […]

Brockley Brewery

Brockley Brewery, London SE4 and SE12

Brewery28 Chiltonian Industrial Estate SE12 0TX (Lewisham)brockleybrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2019

Suspended brewery (remains open as bar)31 Harcourt Road SE4 2AJ (Lewisham)First sold beer: 22 March 2013Brewing suspended: September 2024

Brockley was founded at the initiative of Andy Rowland and five neighbours in 2013 in response to a […]

Brixton Brewery (Heineken)

Brixton Brewery, London SW9

Brewery547 Brixton Station Road SW9 8PF (Lambeth)brixtonbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2013

Closed brewery1 Dylan Road SE24 0HL (Lambeth)First sold beer: June 2018Ceased brewing: September 2024

Conceived as early as 2011 by homebrewing neighbours Jez Galaun and Mike Ross, Brixton eventually opened two years with a 10 hl brewhouse from Oban […]

Brick Brewery (Keystone)

Brick Brewery, London SE8.

Brewery moved outside LondonOriginal site: 209 Blenheim Grove SE15 4QL (Southwark) Final site in London: 13 Deptford Industrial Estate, Blackhorse Road SE8 5HY (Lewisham)brickbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2013 (at original site)Brewing ceased in London: November 2023

Former head brewer Pete Vick (left) and founder Ian Stewart of Brick.

Like countless […]

Brewhouse and Kitchen

Includes information for The Botanist and The Lamb (closed brewpubs).

Brewhouse and Kitchen, London N1

Brewpubsbrewhouseandkitchen.comHighbury: 2a Corsica Street N5 1JJ (Islington)First sold beer: 22 June 2015

Hoxton: 397 Geffrye Street E2 8HZ (Hackney)First sold beer: December 2018

Islington: Torrens Street EC1V 1NG (Islington)First sold beer: October 2014Brewing suspended: September 2022, unlikely […]

BBNo (Brew by Numbers) (Keystone)

Brew by Numbers, London SE10.

Closed breweryOriginal site: 66 Southwark Bridge Road SE1 0AS (Southwark, since closed)Second site, later pilot brewery: 79 Enid Street SE16 3RA (Southwark, since closed)Barrel Store: 1 Bellenden Business Park SE15 4RF (Southwark, since closed)Production brewery: South Warehouse, Greenwich Beach, Morden Wharf Road SE10 0PA (Greenwich)bbno.coFirst sold beer (at original […]

Bloomsbury Brewery (Perseverance)

Bloomsbury Brewery, London WC1

Brewpub, no longer brewing 63 Lambs Conduit Street WC1N 3NB First sold beer: August 2014 Ceased brewing: October 2015

Bloomsbury began as a small brewery in the cellar of the Perseverance pub, an ex-Charrington free house at the above address, installed by then-owner Pete Millington. It brewed only occasionally […]

Big Smoke Brew Co (Antelope)

Big Smoke Brew Co, Kingston upon Thames (London) KT6

Brewpub, now brewing outside London 87 Maple Road, Surbiton KT6 4AW (Kingston upon Thames) w bigsmokebrew.co.uk First sold beer: September 2014 Ceased brewing in London: March 2019

Ash Zobell and the aptly named Pete Brew reinvented Twickenham’s Sussex Arms as a top class beer […]

Bexley Brewery

Bexley Brewery DA8 (London, Bexley)

Brewery18 Manford Industrial Estate, Manor Road, Erith DA8 2AJ (Bexley)bexleybrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 25 September 2014

This operation on an industrial estate beside the river Thames, by Crayford Marshes on the edge of Erith, is the first standalone brewery in Bexley since Reffell’s was closed by Courage in 1956. It’s […]