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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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Pretty Decent Beer Co

Pretty Decent Beer Co, London E17

BreweryOriginal site: 338 Sheridan Road E7 9EF (Waltham Forest)Current site: 10 Uplands Business Park, Blackhorse Lane E17 5QL (Waltham Forest)prettydecentbeer.coFirst sold beer: May 2017 (at original site)

When charity worker James Casey joined the swelling ranks of new London brewers, he was determined that his enterprise would be […]

Deviant & Dandy

Deviant & Dandy, London E9

Closed brewery185 Nursery Road E9 6PB (Hackney)First sold beer: 30 January 2018Ceased brewing: 4 November 2023

This intriguingly named outfit at one end of Hackney’s ‘beer row’ was the second brewery co-founded by US exile Byron Knight, who previously helped set up Beavertown. Byron was the original ‘deviant’ while […]

Reunion Ales

Reunion Ales, Feltham TW13 (London).

Closed brewery16 Vector Park, Forest Road, Feltham TW13 7EJ (Hounslow)First sold beer: January 2016Ceased brewing: August 2020

When former financial specialist Francis Smedley decided to turn his passion for homebrewing into a profession, he settled on Feltham as a location with plenty of local demand but no local brewery. […]

Broken Drum Brewery

Broken Drum, Sidcup DA15 (London)

Brewpub308 Westwood Lane, Sidcup DA15 9PT (Bexley, brewing offsite nearby)thebrokendrum.co.ukFirst sold beer: 4 October 2018

Former ICT professional Andy Wheeler opened a micropub in a former nail bar at Blackfen in April 2015, between Welling and Sidcup in the shadow of the A2 Rochester Way flyover.

In 2018, Andy […]

BrewDog London

BrewDog, London EC3 and SE1

BrewDog Outpost Tower Hill

Brewpub21 Great Tower Street EC3R 5AR (City of London)brewdog.comFirst sold beer: 12 May 2018

Brewdog Waterloo

BrewpubUnit G Waterloo Station, 1 The Sidings SE1 7BH (Lambeth)brewdog.comFirst sold beer: November 2022

When it opened, Tower Hill was London’s biggest BrewDog bar and the chain’s only brewpub […]

The Mechanic Brewing Co

The Mechanic Brewing Co, London E1

Brewery, brewing currently suspendedOriginal site: 22A Cudworth Street E1 5QU (Tower Hamlets)mechanicbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 29 January 2019Brewing suspended: November 2020

Originally located in a run of railway arches around Bethnal Green Overground station apparently otherwise dedicated to fixing black taxis, this is the London brewing project of Olga […]

Boxcar Brewery

Boxcar Brewery, London E9

Closed breweryOriginal site: 221 Ponsford Street E9 6JU (Hackney)Second site: 1 Birkbeck Street E2 6JY (Tower Hamlets)boxcarbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2017 (at original site)Ceased brewing: 23 Feburary 2023 (at second site)

Boxcar began on a modest scale when head brewer Sam Dickison, formerly of Moncada, Hammerton and Laine, teamed up […]

Block Brewery (Wenlock Arms)

The very small Block brewery at the Wenlock Arms, London N1

Brewpub no longer brewing26 Wenlock Road N1 7TA (Hackney)wenlockarms.comFirst sold beer: 25 December 2016Ceased brewing: February 2023

This legendary beer pub, happily saved from demolition and reopened in 2013 following a local campaign, added a small in-house brewery late in 2016.

Brewer Eugene […]

Bianca Road Brew Co

Bianca Road Brew Co, London SE16

BreweryOriginal site: Unit 1, 95 Haymerle Road SE15 6SJ (Southwark) Second site: 19 Pages Walk SE1 4SB (Southwark) Current site: 83 Enid Street SE16 3RA (Southwark)biancaroad.comFirst sold beer: 21 May 2016 (at original site)

Engineer Reece Wood decided to start his own brewery after completing an epic cycling […]

Ignition Brewery

Ignition Brewery, London SE26

Brewery44A Sydenham Road SE26 5QF (Lewisham)ignition.beerFirst sold beer: 30 May 2017

Not just a brewery, this is a social enterprise employing and training people with learning disabilities, founded by economist Nick O’Shea, who has also been heavily involved with human rights charity Liberty.

Beers were brewed at UBREW from […]