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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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Mann Crossman & Paulin (Watney Mann)

Mann’s beermat with the sort of slogan no longer permitted today.

Closed breweryAlbion Brewery, Whitechapel Road E1 1BU (Tower Hamlets)First sold beer: by 1673, perhaps earlierCeased brewing: 1979

An inn stood on the northwest corner of the junction of Whitechapel Road and Cambridge Heath Road since before 1654, with an attached brewhouse since at least […]

Ind Coope (Allied Lyons)

Also known as Romford Brewing Co.

Includes information for Taylor Walker.

Ind Coope 1970s beermat.

Closed breweryStar Brewery, 19 High Street, Romford RM1 1JU (Havering)First sold beer: 1708Ceased brewing: 1993

Closed breweryBarley Mow Brewery, Newell Street E14 8HZ (Tower Hamlets)First sold beer: c1735Ceased brewing: 1960

Romford was a rural Essex market town in 1708 when […]

Saint Monday Brewery (Grace Land)

Includes information for London Fields Brewery.

Saint Monday, London E8.

Brewery, taproomOriginal site (as London Fields): 374 Helmsley Place E8 3SB (Hackney)Current site: 4 Warburton Road E8 3RR (Hackney)saintmondaybrewery.ukFirst sold beer: 26 August 2011 (as London Fields at original site)Brewing suspended: March 2015Brewing restarted: September 2019Brewing suspended again: 8 December 2021Brewing restarted again (as […]

From the cellar: Carlsberg Elephant Beer

Carlsberg Elephant Beer: vintage poster

ABV: 7.2% Origin: København, Hovedstaden, Denmark Website: www.carlsberggroup.com Date: 23 October 2000

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. Elephant Beer is still brewed, as it has been […]