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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 […]

Brixton Brewery (Heineken)

Brixton Brewery, London SW9

Brewery547 Brixton Station Road SW9 8PF (Lambeth)brixtonbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2013

Closed brewery1 Dylan Road SE24 0HL (Lambeth)First sold beer: June 2018Ceased brewing: September 2024

Conceived as early as 2011 by homebrewing neighbours Jez Galaun and Mike Ross, Brixton eventually opened two years with a 10 hl brewhouse from Oban […]

Beavertown Brewery (Heineken)

Beavertown Brewery, London N17 and Enfield (London) EN3

Breweries and brewpubOriginal site: Duke’s, 33 Downham Road N1 5AA (Hackney) Second site: 4 Stour Road E3 2NT (Tower Hamlets), Tottenham site: 17 Lockwood Industrial Park, Mill Mead Road N17 9QP (Haringey)Former brewpub: Marketplace, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, 782 High Road N17 0BX (Haringey)Production site: 102 East […]

From the cellar: Caledonian Burns Ale

Caledonian Burns Ale

ABV: 4.7% Origin: Edinburgh, Scotland Website: www.caledonianbeer.com First published: 5 February 2001

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. Caledonian is no longer “proudly independent”: Scottish Courage became involved in […]

De Keersmaeker Mort Subite Oude Kriek

ABV: 6.5% Origin: Kobbegem, Vlaams-Brabant Website: http://www.mort-subite.be

De Keersmaeker Mort Subite Oude Kriek

This is an expanded review of a beer that featured as a fruit beer on the bottled beer review page in the August 2010 issue of

BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view […]

Schans Van Vollenhoven & Co's Extra Stout

Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. Top Tastings 2008. For more selections see previous post. Beer sellers: De Bierkoning

ABV: 7% Origin: Uithoorn, Noord-Holland, Netherlands Website: www.schansbier.nl

Van Vollenhoven poster

Van Vollenhoven’s Extra Stout is arguably one of the best beers currently produced in the Netherlands, and it’s also a piece […]