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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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Earth Ale

Earth Ale, N22

Brewery now brewing outside
A007 The Factory, 5 Clarendon Road N22 6XJ (Haringey)
earthale.com
First sold beer: July 2015
Ceased brewing in : November 2021

This project was the brainchild of professional chef Alex Lewis, a specialist in foraged ingredients who began brewing commercially on a very small scale at home for a series of beer and food matching dinners he hosted at various south venues in 2015.

All aboard the beer bus: the former Earth Tap in Wood Green.

Following a period of cuckoo brewing, Alex opened a taproom in the unusual location of a disused double-decker bus shared with a daytime café in Blue Yard, Wood Green. He found space for his own brewery a short walk from the bus in July 2018, in the former Barratt’s biscuit factory, then known as the Factory. A 200 l kit was used as a stopgap until April 2019 when beer began flowing from a more professional 10 hl brewhouse.

Alex had to quit the Factory in November 2021 as it was due for demolition and redevelopment. He found a new site outside at a vineyard near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The demands of relocation made it impractical to continue with the bus too, so sadly London lost one of its most interesting and quirkiest beer venues.

Beers were in keg and bottle-conditioned form.

Updated 9 December 2021.

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