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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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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 […]

Greene King Old 5X

The unlikely handpump that lured the bloggerati — Greene King Old 5X on cask at the Great British Beer Festival, London, August 2012.

Top Tastings 2012

ABV: 12% Origin: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Website: www.greeneking.co.uk

It has to be admitted that these days the Greene King bar is rarely the hottest place […]

Assembly House NW5

The Assembly House, London NW5. Pic: Wikimedia Commons.

London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates North London: Kentish Town and Tufnell Park

Contemporary pub (Greene King) Regional Heritage Pub 292 Kentish Town Road NW5 2TG T 020 7485 2031 w www.assemblyhouse.co.uk f AssemblyHouseKentishTown tw assemblyhouse2 Open 1200-2300 (2400 Fri-Sat, 2230 Sun). Children welcome […]

New Cross House SE14

London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates Southeast London: Greenwich and Deptford

Literal labelling at the New Cross House, London SE14

Contemporary pub (Capital/Greene King) 316 New Cross Road SE14 6AF T 020 8691 8875 w www.thenewcrosshouse.com f newcrosshouse tw newcrosshouse Open 1200-2400 (0100 Fri-Sat). Children welcome until 2000. Cask beer 4 (Florence, […]

Maynard Arms N8

London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates North London: Other locations – Crouch End

Maynard Arms, N8. Pic: Greene King

Contemporary pub, gastropub (Realpubs/Greene King) 70 Park Road N8 8SX T 020 8341 6283 w www.maynardarmsn8.co.uk f Maynard-Arms Open 1200-2300 (2400 Fri-Sat). Children very welcome until early evening. Cask beer 4 (sometimes local […]

Belhaven Innis & Gunn Canada Day 2011

European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011

ABV: 8.2% Origin: Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland Website: http://www.innisandgunn.com/

Innis & Gunn Oak Aged Beer

Scotland’s Innis & Gunn specialises in oak ageing beer — “like no other beer”, they’ve been known to claim rather inaccurately, although their take on the process is unusual. It came about when […]

Greene King: The Joy of 5X

Greene King Visitor Centre entrance: disused copper

Brewery visits are some beer writers’ bread and butter but I confess I’ve been on very few. Certainly, visiting Greene King, now probably the UK’s biggest brewer that isn’t a multinational, wasn’t high on my to-do list. But then I was in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, […]

Greene King Suffolk Springer, Morland Old Crafty Hen and Strong Suffolk

Top Tastings 2010 (Strong Suffolk)

ABV: 6%, 6.5% and 6% Origin: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Website: www.greeneking.co.uk

Greene King Suffolk Springer

These three beers offer currently the only options for public access to Greene King’s legendary Old 5X, Britain’s only surviving wood aged beer made on a commercial scale. GK have long […]

Greene King Morland Hen’s Tooth

Originally published in What’s Brewing January 2003

Origin: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England ABV: 6.5 per cent Buy from most supermarkets

Greene King Morland Hen's Tooth

Back in 2000 Greene King, now one of Britain’s biggest independent brewers, acquired and closed the old-established family brewery, Morland of Abingdon. Among the brands it acquired […]