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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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Beer sellers: Scottish Real Ale Shop, Callander

The Lade Inn and Scottish Real Ale Shop, Kilmahog, Callander, Scotland

A couple of decades ago, a Scottish Real Ale Shop would have sounded like a preposterous joke. Though Scotland boasted notable historic brewing centres such as Alloa and Edinburgh, in the post-war period Scottish brewers moved further and faster with consolidation and […]

Beer sellers: mi orge mi houblon, Arlon

First published in Beers of the World April 2009

mi orge mi houblon

I’m particularly proud of this piece as it was the first time I interviewed someone in a language other than English. Christophe Gillard speaks English more than well enough to offer assistance to the international customers in his shop, but […]

Beer sellers: Bierkraft, Brooklyn, New York City

First published in Beers of the World, February 2009

Bierkraft: Sometime in New York City…

“Gourmet Grocery and Beer Emporium” reads the strapline atop Bierkraft, one of several specialist shops that cluster in Brooklyn’s leafy Park Slope neighbourhood, and the beer emporium of your imagination may very well look something like this. The […]

Gueuzerie Tilquin: Lambic across the language boundary

Gueuzerie Tilquin

There are few circles of brewing so exclusive that most serious beer enthusiasts could recite their membership from memory. One is the roll call of Trappist breweries, currently seven strong (though shortly to increase to nine). Another, slightly longer, is the list of artisanal lambic producers in and around Brussels, the […]

Redchurch Brewery (first report)

London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates

Redchurch Brewery, London E2

Microbrewery 273 Poyser Street, London E2 9RF 7.4km/4.6 miles from central London Web http://theredchurchbrewery.com f The-Redchurch-Brewery tw redchurchbrewer

Brewing, it seems, has many functions besides providing the world with one of the most joyously delicious beverages yet invented, and one of them […]

Dial Arch SE18

London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates Southeast London: Other locations — Woolwich

Dial Arch, London SE18

Contemporary pub (Young’s) The Warren, Royal Arsenal Riverside, London SE18 6GW (Young’s) T (020) 3130 0700 Web http://dialarch.com f DialArchRoyalArsenal tw DialArch Open 0900-2300 (2400 Fri-Sat, note bars open 1200). Children welcome in Pantry until 2000. […]

First update to London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars published

London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates

The CAMRA Guide to London's Best Beer, Pubs and Bars by Des de Moor

My first book, The CAMRA Guide to London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars, is officially published on Monday (4 July) and copies are already being sent out. However such is the nature […]

Craft Beer Co EC1

London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates Central London : Clerkenwell & Smithfield

Contemporary pub 82 Leather Lane EC1N 7TR email info@thecraftbeerco.com Web http://thecraftbeerco.com f thecraftbeerco tw thecraftbeerco Open 1100 (12o0 Sun)-2300 (2230 Sun) Cask beers 15 (Kent, unusual guests), Other beers 21 keg, 300 bottles, Also malts, bourbons, other specialist spirits Food Pork pies, […]

Balham Bowls Club SW12

London’s Beer Beer, Pubs and Bars updates Southwest London: Other locations — Balham

Bar 7 Ramsden Road SW12 8QX T (020) 8673 4700 W www.balhambowlsclub.com f balhambowlsclub tw balhambowls Open 1600 (1200 Sat-Sun)-2300 (2400 Thu, 0100 Fri-Sat). Children very welcome until 2100. Cask beers 3 (Adnams, Purity, 1 often local guest) Cask marque, Other beers […]

Westow House SE19

London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates Southeast London: Other locations — Crystal Palace

Contemporary pub 79 Westow Hill SE19 1TX T (020) 8670 0654 Web http://www.westowhouse.com/ f Westow House tw westow_house Open 1200-2300 (Thu 2400, Fri-Sat 0200). Children very welcome until 2100. Cask beers 5 (Adnams, Purity, 3 sometimes unusual guests) Cask marque, Other […]