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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.
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Gan Yam Brew Co

Gan Yam Brew Co, London SE17

Brewery, now brewing outside London149 Hillingdon Street SE17 3JH (Southwark)ganyambrew.co.ukFirst sold beer: December 2018Ceased brewing in London: January 2021

This very small brewery began as a cuckoo in 2018 but has also brewed commercially on a 1.5 hl home-based kit. The name means ‘go home’ in Cumbrian dialect […]

Hackney Church Brew Co

Hackney Church Brew Co, London E8

Brewpub16 Bohemia Place E8 1DU (Hackney)hackneychurchbrew.coFirst sold beer: 16 June 2018

This handsome brewpub in two railway arches on Hackney’s ‘brewery row’ was co-founded by head brewer Ryan Robbins, originally from Missouri, who oversees a 20 hl automated brewhouse from German suppliers Braukon, complete with water purifier and […]

Husk Brewing

Husk Brewing, London E16

Suspended breweryOriginal site: 58A Railway Arches, North Woolwich Road E16 2AA (Newham)Current site: The Factory Project, Factory Road E16 2HB (Newham, no visitors please)Taproom: 1A Brunel Street Works, 5 Silvertown Way, London E16 1EAhuskbrewing.comFirst sold beer: January 2016Brewing suspended: February 2023

Despite its original address and against London expectations, this […]

Jeffersons Brewery

Jeffersons Brewery, Richmond (London) TW9

Closed breweryRichmond TW9 (Richmond upon Thames)jeffersonsbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 8 July 2017Ceased brewing: September 2022

One of London’s smaller commercial breweries, Jeffersons derived its name from homebrewing brothers Freddie and George Jefferies, who first sold their beer at the Barnes Fair in July 2017 after two years of planning and […]

Kanpai London Craft Sake

Kanpai London Craft Sake, London SE1

BreweryOriginal site: 11 Print Village, 58 Chadwick Road SE15 4PU (Southwark)Second site: 2A-2 Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Road SE15 3SN (Southwark)Current site (from September 2023): 48 Druid Street SE1 2EZ (Southwark)kanpai.londonFirst sold beer: June 2017

The first sake brewery in the UK and one of only seven in […]

Babel Beerhouse

Previously Little Creatures Regents Canal.

Babel Beerhouse, London N1

Brewpub, brewing currently suspended1 Lewis Cubitt Walk N1C 4DL (Camden)babelbeerhouse.comFirst sold beer: 5 May 2019 (as Little Creatures Regents Canal)Brewing suspended: August 2022Brewing resumed: March 2023Brewing suspended again: December 2023

This substantial brewpub in the Kings Cross redevelopment opened in May 2019 as the London […]

The Mad Yank Brewery

The Mad Yank Brewery, Pinner (London) HA5

Closed breweryPinner HA5 (Hillingdon)First sold beer: 23 February 2019Ceased brewing: by March 2023

German-born former marketing specialist Larissa Graeber and her husband Grant, who came to the UK as an officer with the US Navy based in Northwood, originally planned a brewery in central London with a […]

Magic Spells Brewery

Magic Spells Brewery, London E10

Brewery, likely no longer brewing in LondonHare Wines, 24 Rigg Approach E10 7QN (Waltham Forest)magicspellsbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: June 2017Brewing ceased in London: by July 2021

This brewing offshoot of Leyton-based drinks wholesaler Hare Wines started when owner Jas Hare noticed both the quality and booming popularity of the London-brewed […]

Muswell Hillbilly Brewers

Muswell Hillbilly, London N10

Brewery4 Avenue Mews (taproom at 14) N10 3NP (Haringey)muswellhillbillybrewers.co.ukFirst sold beer: April 2016

Nodding in their name to local heroes the Kinks, the Hillbillies are also a quartet, though currently still holding their day jobs and working on the brewery part-time. Homebrewers Martin Hodgson and Pete Syratt began the project […]

Mutineers Brewery

Mutineers Brewery, Bromley (London) BR1

Brewery, no visitors pleaseBromley BR1 4HE (Bromley)mutineers.beerFirst sold beer: October 2018

Inspired by an “experience day” at London Fields, engineer Rob Vote began homebrewing with friends Gareth Bathers, Lee Hayes and Joe Miles. They later graduated to small-scale commercial brewing using a 1 hl three-tier kit at a private […]