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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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Pitfield Brewery

Pitfield Brewery

Brewery moved from London, since closed8 Pitfield Street N1 6HA (Hackney, original site)4 Hoxton Square N1 6NU (Hackney, second site)Mill Race Lane, Stourbridge Industrial Estate, Stourbridge DY8 1JN (Dudley, outside London, third site)14 Pitfield Street N1 6EY (Hackney, fourth site)The Nurseries, Nayland Road, Great Horkesley, Colchester CO4 5HA (Essex, outside London, fifth […]

Meantime Brewing Company (Asahi)

Meantime, London SE10

Closed breweryOriginal site: Units G-H2 Penhall Lane SE7 8RX (Greenwich)Last site: 1 Lawrence Trading Estate, Blackwall Lane SE10 0ARmeantimebrewing.comFirst sold beer: April 2000Ceased brewing: 1 May 2024

Old Brewery GreenwichBrewpub no longer brewingPepys Building, Old Royal Naval College SE10 9LW First sold beer: February 2010Brewing ceased: January 2016

Founded by one of […]

Fuller’s Griffin Brewery (Asahi)

Fuller’s Griffin Brewery, London W4

Formerly Fuller, Smith & Turner. Includes information for the original Lamb Brewery

BreweryChiswick Lane South W4 2QB (Hounslow)fullersbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 1701 (as Mawson’s)

Shockwaves ran through the London brewing scene on 25 January 2019 when Fuller, Smith & Turner, London’s biggest brewery and its oldest by far, announced it […]

Dark Star Imperial Stout

First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts. For more imperial stouts see previous post.

ABV: 10.5 per cent Origin: Ansty, Sussex, England Website www.darkstarbrewing.co.uk

Dark Star Imperial Stout

Dark Star originated at the Evening Star brewpub in Brighton in 1991. Ten years later the brewery, which […]