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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
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"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Br3wery

Br3wery, Beckenham BR3 (London)

Brewery, visitors to nearby taproom onlyOriginal site: Mackenzie Road, Beckenham BR3 4RY (Bromley)Second site: 253 Beckenham Road, Beckenham BR3 4RP (Bromley)Current site (no visitors please) Birkbeck Road, Beckenham BR3 4SNbr3wery.comFirst sold beer: February 2019 (at original site)

Cadú Gomes began brewing commercially on a small scale using a home-based kit […]

Bloomsbury Drinks Company

Beer firmbloomsburyleisuregroup.comActive since: 2018

Bloomsbury is a brand used for exclusive beers commissioned for the Bloomsbury Leisure Group, which owns the Euston Tap and its sister pubs. The beers originate at a variety of breweries in the UK and elsewhere, including Five Points.

The name was previously used for an unrelated brewery at […]

London breweries 2018

24 openings and revivals, 7 closures and suspensions, net change +17.

By the end of 2018, there were 125 commercial breweries operating in London, including 32 brewpubs. Seven were parts of multinationals (M). These breweries were:

40FT Brewery E8, Hackney Affinity Brew Co SE16, Southwark Alphabeta Brewery (Pitt Cue) EC2, City of London, brewpub […]

Kentish Town Brewery

Kentish Town Brewery, London NW5

Brewery not currently brewing, no visitors pleaseKentish Town NW5 1UF (Camden)kentishtownbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2017Brewing suspended: by October 2019

This small home-based brewery was placed on hold in late 2019 while brewer Mark Drayton made a trip to Australia for family reasons. He expected to return and resume brewing […]

Fearless Nomad Brewing (Black Dog)

Fearless Nomad Brewing, Brentford (London) TW8

Brewpub not currently brewing17 Albany Road, Brentford TW8 0NF (Hounslow)blackdogbeerhouse.co.ukFirst sold beer: 18 January 2020Brewing suspended: by June 2023

After many years setting up and operating beer-friendly pubs for other companies, Ash Zobell and brothers Pete and James Brew refurbished and reopened this pub in a Brentford backstreet […]

Up the Creek Brewery (Greenwich Brewery)

Up the Creek Brewery, London SE10

Brewpub302 Creek Road SE10 9SW (Greenwich)up-the-creek.comFirst sold beer: 31 October 2018

Perhaps not the most obvious place you’d expect to find an in-house brewery, Greenwich institution Up the Creek is a comedy club in a former church hall founded by the late comedian Malcolm Hardee in 1991. But […]

Gravity Well Brewing Co

Gravity Well Brewing Co, London N17.

BreweryOriginal site: 142 Tilbury Road E10 6RE (Waltham Forest)Current production site: 1 Compass West Estate, 33 West Road N17 0XL (Haringey)gravitywellbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: September 2018 (at original site)

Founder Ben Duck had already given up his career as a financial lawyer before deciding to turn the appealing mix […]

Queen’s Head Shoreditch

Formerly Goose Island Brewpub Shoreditch.

Queen’s Head Shoreditch, London E1

Former brewpub221 Shoreditch High Street E1 6PJ (Hackney)queensheadshoreditch.comFirst sold beer: 21 November 2018Ceased brewing: September 2022, brewhouse removed by November 2023

Chicago brewery Goose Island, founded in 1988 and part of AB InBev since 2011, established its first London home, the Vintage Ale House, […]

The Goodness Brewing Co

The Goodness Brewing Co, London N22

Brewery5a Clarendon Yard, Coburg Road N22 6TZ (Haringey)thegoodnessbrew.coFirst sold beer: September 2019 (at own site)

The Goodness emerged out of the amusingly named Wood Green Hopping City, founded in 2016 as one of several community hop collectives in London, groups of locals who grow hops in gardens and […]

German Kraft

German Kraft, London SE1

Brewpubsgermankraftbeer.com

Mercato Metropolitano Elephant42 Newington Causeway SE1 6DR (Southwark)First sold beer: 10 March 2018

Mercato Mayfair13A North Audley Street W1K 6ZA (Westminster)First sold beer: November 2020

Kraft Dalston130A Kingsland High Road E8 2LQ (Hackney)First sold beer: December 2020

The first German Kraft opened in December 2017 in the first Mercato […]