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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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Battersea Brewery

Battersea Brewery, London SW11

Battersea Brewery BatterseaBrewpub12 Arches Lane, Battersea Power Station SW11 8AB (Wandsworth)batterseabrew.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2018

Battersea Substation BermondseyBrewery, taproom8 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)batterseabrew.co.ukFirst sold beer: 23 June 2018 (as Partizan), August 2023 (as Battersea)

Battersea Brewery, London SW11

One of London’s smarter railway arch breweries, this original Battersea brewpub […]

Signal Brewery

Signal Brewery, Beddington CR0 (London)

Brewery8 Stirling Way, Beddington Farm Road, Croydon CR0 4XN (Sutton)signallager.comFirst sold beer: January 2016

The roots of Signal go back to the day when South African-born chemical engineer Murray Roos’s children claimed the garden shed, previously home to his homebrewing setup, as a play space, and his wife told […]

Concrete Island Brewery

Formerly Small Beer Brewing Company.

Concrete Island Brewery, London W12

Brewery, no visitors pleaseWood Lane W12 (Hammersmith & Fulham)concreteislandbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: September 2017 (as Small Beer)

Located near the Westway, this is one of London’s very smallest commercial breweries. It’s run by Steve Smith, an award-winning London Amateur Brewers member who works on a […]

Small Beer Brew Co

Small Beer Brew Co, London SE16

Brewery70 Verney Road SE16 3DH (Southwark)theoriginalsmallbeer.comFirst sold beer: November 2017

In the 17th century, small beer was the lowest-strength product of a brewery, consumed daily by people of all ages in preference to water. It was usually made by sparging (rinsing) the mash a final time after the […]

Spartan Brewery

Spartan Brewery, London SE16

Beer firm, former and planned future breweryspartanbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 23 June 2018Brewing suspended: 17 June 2023

Software engineer Colin Brooks and financial risk analyst Mike Willetts homebrewed together for over five years before making their first commercial beers under the Spartan brand as cuckoos at now-closed shared Bermondsey brewery UBREW […]

St Mary’s Brewery

St Mary’s Brewery, London NW3

Brewery, no visitors pleaseSt Mary’s Church, Elsworthy Road NW3 3DJ (Camden)stmarysbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2017Brewing suspended: July 2022Brewing resumed: October 2024

Stephen Reynolds, church warden at St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, started this brewery as a way of raising money for the church’s youth work. The first beer, […]

Anomaly Brewing

Anomaly Brewing, New Malden (London)

Brewery, no visitors pleaseNew Malden KT3 5RU (Kingston upon Thames)anomalybrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2018

Graphic designer Adam Sutton began homebrewing in 2017 and became a part-time professional a little over a year later, working on a small 1.5 hl direct-fired kit in a converted garage at his New Malden […]

Two Tribes

Two Tribes, London N7

BreweryOriginal site: 3 Jubilee Estate, Horsham RH13 5UE (West Sussex , outside London)Current site: 4 Tileyard Studios, Tileyard Road N7 9AH (Islington)(Taproom at Campfire, Tileyard Studios)twotribes.co.ukFirst sold beer: 2000 (as W J King in Horsham), 4 April 2018 (as Two Tribes at London site)

Interestingly, this unashamedly modern brewery and […]

Urban Alchemy Brewing Co

Urban Alchemy Brewing Co, New Barnet (London)

Suspended brewery, no visitors pleaseNew Barnet EN5 (Barnet)urban-alchemy-brewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: December 2019Brewing suspended: March 2023

Four friends who had been homebrewing together for 10 years – Simon Morley, Matt Javes, Neill Boscoe and David Boldrin – drew on their mix of brewing, engineering, chemistry and IT skills […]

Villages Brewery

Villages Brewery, London SE8

Brewery21 Resolution Way SE8 4NT (Lewisham)villagesbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 9 December 2016

Currently the only actual brewery in a cluster of beer-friendly venues around Deptford station, Villages occupies two arches, with space extending into a lean-to at the back, under the same historic railway as in Bermondsey but a little further […]