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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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Pillars Brewery

Pillars Brewery, London E17

Brewery2 Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street E17 9HQ (Waltham Forest)pillarsbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2016

One of several welcome recent initiatives dedicated to brewing decent lager in London, Pillars (originally Four Pillars, though shortened just before the beer launched) was founded by brothers Eamonn, Samie and Omar Razaq with their friend […]

Pinnora Brewing

Pinnora Brewing, Pinner (London) HA5

Brewery, no visitors please2 Jubilee Parade (rear), West End Avenue, Pinner HA5 1BB (Harrow)pinnora.ukFirst sold beer: 30 March 2019

Taking its name from the first recorded name for Pinner in the 13th century, Pinnora was set up by two local brothers, Gareth and Gawain Cox, who have been involved […]

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 […]