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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.
Des de Moor

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Belleville Brewing Co

Belleville Brewery, London SW12

Brewery36 Jaggard Way (taproom 44 Jaggard Way) SW12 8SG (Wandsworth)bellevillebrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: 30 March 2013

Musician Adrian Thomas was prompted to become a homebrewer when he organised a beer festival as a fundraiser for his son’s school, Belleville Primary. He took things a stage further by getting together with nine […]

Beavertown Brewery (Heineken)

Beavertown Brewery, London N17 and Enfield (London) EN3

Breweries and brewpubOriginal site: Duke’s, 33 Downham Road N1 5AA (Hackney) Second site: 4 Stour Road E3 2NT (Tower Hamlets), Tottenham site: 17 Lockwood Industrial Park, Mill Mead Road N17 9QP (Haringey)Former brewpub: Marketplace, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, 782 High Road N17 0BX (Haringey)Production site: 102 East […]

Barnet Brewery (Black Horse)

Barnet Brewery, Barnet EN5 (London).

Brewpub, no longer brewing92 Wood Street, Barnet EN5 4HYblackhorsebarnet.co.ukFirst sold beer: March 2013Ceased brewing: November 2021

This sprawling Victorian pub just outside Barnet town centre was relaunched late in 2012 by Oak Taverns, a group that runs several brewpubs outside London. The 2.5 hl brewery, in an outhouse […]

Anspach & Hobday

Anspach & Hobday, Beddington CR0 (London)(

BreweryOriginal site: 18 Druid Street SE1 2HH (Southwark)Production site: 11 Valley Point Industrial Estate, Beddington Farm Road, Croydon CR0 4WP (Sutton)anspachandhobday.comFirst sold beer: February 2014

When childhood friends and former musicians Jack Hobday and Paul Anspach won a homebrew competition, one of the judges, TV presenter and wine […]

From the cellar: Freedom Soho Red

Freedom Brewery, ex-London, now Staffordshire.

ABV: 4.4% Origin: London WC2, England Website: freedombrewery.com First published: 8 January 2001

Another review from the archive written for the pioneering Oxford Bottled Beer Database (OBBD). I’ve left it uncorrected — so please read it in that historical spirit.

It’s interesting to look back at this one […]

Porters, peers and pilgrims 2016: Beer heritage walks in August

The old Truman Black Eagle brewery in Brick Lane. Pic: Christine Matthews for Geograph. Creative Commons license.

Saturday 6 August 2016, 1030hrs Sunday 14 August 2016, 1030hrs

This year there are two opportunities to join me during the week of the Great British Beer Festival and London Beer City for a fascinating walking […]

London update: brewing in the shadow of the multinationals

Brewhouse and Kitchen Highbury: a newer, bigger kit than originally planned in one of London’s newest brewpubs.

It’s now a year since the main text of the latest edition of The CAMRA Guide to London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars was finalised, and speciality brewing in the city continues to expand. The most […]

Back in black: living beer heritage in the West Midlands

The Birmingham conurbation is the latest British city to rejuvenate its beer scene under the ‘craft’ banner, albeit several steps behind the likes of Bristol, Leeds and Manchester. But this is a city that’s also particularly rich in living examples of beer and pub heritage, demonstrating that, though today’s beer may be novel in […]

Time to toast London’s Best Beer

Newly granular London beer marketing at Hop Burns and Black.

As I recently wrote in London Drinker magazine, the young William Blake had a vision of angels in a tree on Peckham Rye Common. I had a revelation of a different kind in more-or-less the same spot. Towards the end of a lengthy […]

London breweries 1971

1971 vintage Evening Standard Pub of the Year plaque still in situ in Fulham. Pic: Edwardx, Wikipedia Creative Commons.

By the end of 1971, there were 11 commercial breweries operating in London, none of them brewpubs. 6 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:

Charrington Brewery […]