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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
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"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Old London Bridge Brewery

Market Porter, London SE1Photo: CAMRA

Also known at various times as Beach’s Ales, Bishop’s Brewery and Market Brewery (Market Porter).

Brewpub no longer brewingMarket Porter, 9 Stoney Street SE1 9AA (Southwark)First sold beer: December 1981 (as Market Brewery)Brewing suspended: 1984Brewing resumed: May 1985Ceased brewing: 1988

Closed brewery2 Park Street SE1 9AD (Southwark)First sold beer: […]

Original Brewing Co (Hollywood Bowl, Bass)

Hollywood Bowl, London N12 and SE16

Brewpubs closed or no longer brewingHollywood Bowl Finchley, Leisure Way, High Road N12 0GL (Barnet)First sold beer: 1996

Hollywood Bowl Surrey Quays, Surrey Quays Leisure Park, Surrey Quays Road SE16 7LW (Southwark)First sold beer: 1998

Both ceased brewing: 2000

Both these breweries were the result of a short-lived […]

O’Hanlon’s Brewery

O’Hanlon’s Port Stout

Brewery moved outside London114 Randall Road SE11 5JR (Lambeth)hanlonsbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 1996Moved outside London: 2000

John O’Hanlon, originally from Kerry, Ireland, and his wife Liz bought a small Grade II-listed ex-Whitbread pub in Clerkenwell, the Three Crowns (8 Tysoe Street EC1R 4RQ), in 1995. They renamed it O’Hanlon’s and it quickly […]

Tankleys Brewery

Tankleys Brewery, Sidcup DA15 (London)

Brewery, no visitors pleaseSidcup DA15 (Bexley)tankleysbrewery.comActive since: November 2015First sold beer: May 2024

Australian-born homebrewer Glenn Heinzel first brewed commercially under the name Tankleys (an obscure family pun) at UBREW late in 2015. A year later, fellow UBREW users Beerblefish began brewing in their own right on a larger […]

Hopewell Brewery (Lockdown Room)

Lockdown Room, London E14

BrewpubHopewell Square, London E14 0SY (Tower Hamlets)thelockdownroom.comFirst sold beer: March 2024

As the name Lockdown Room suggests, this popular bar-restaurant and event venue on London City Island, a recent development in a horseshoe meander of the river Lea near Canning Town, evolved from an initiative to supply the community during […]

London breweries 2023

5 openings and revivals, 20 suspensions and closures, net change -15.

By the end of December 2023, there were 107 commercial breweries operating in London, including 25 brewpubs. 10 were parts of multinationals (M). Those breweries were:

3 Locks Brewing Company NW1, Camden 40FT Brewery E8, Hackney Affinity Brew Co (Grosvenor Arms) SW9, Lambeth, brewpub Anomaly […]

Big Drop Brewing Co

Big Drop, London.

Beer firm, now brewing outside Londonbigdropbrew.comActive since: October 2016Brewing transferred outside London: September 2024

Former lawyer Rob Fink and designer James Kindred launched Big Drop as a specialist brewer of beers of 0.5% ABV and less after Rob noticed a gap in the market when he gave up drinking for an […]

Libertalia Brewing Co

Libertalia Brewing Co, London E10

Brewery142 Tilbury Road, London E10 6RE (Waltham Forest)instagram.com/libertaliabrewingcoFirst sold beer: November 2023

Christos Daskalopoulos and Matt Dean met when they were both working at an Athens brewpub. Matt later went to Meantime but ended up working alongside Christos again when Greek brewery 56 Isles set up 3 Locks as […]

Blondies Brewery

Blondies Brewery, London E10

Beer firm, planned brewpubPatchworks, 258 Church Road, London E10 7JQ (Waltham Forest)blondiesbar.co.ukFirst sold beer: July 2024

Blondies is a popular Clapton bar and music venue opened by sisters Sharmaine and Verity Cox in 2016. The sisters always planned to add their own brewery but struggled to find a site: plans […]

London breweries 2022

The nanobrewery at BBNo, Bermondsey, April 2022.

9 openings and revivals, 19 suspensions and closures, net change -10.

By the end of December 2022, there were 122 commercial breweries operating in London, including 27 brewpubs. 11 were parts of multinationals (M). Those breweries were:

3 Locks Brewing Company NW1, Camden NEW! 40FT Brewery E8, Hackney […]