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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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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 […]

Watling Street Beer

Watling Street Beer, London N17

Closed breweryOriginal site: Hillfield Lane, Aldenham WD25 (Hertfordshire, outside London)Second site: Unit 2A, 6 Greycaine Rd, Watford WD24 7GP (Hertfordshire, outside London)Final site: 8 Triumph Trading Estate, Tariff Road N17 0EB (Haringey)watlingstreetbeer.comFirst sold beer: January 2015 (at original site)Ceased brewing: by June 2020

As London’s brewing scene continued to […]

Oddly Beer

Oddly Beer, London N11.

Closed breweryOriginal site: 12 Platts Eyot, Hampton TW12 2HF (Richmond upon Thames)Second site: 6 Triumph Trading Estate, Tariff Road N17 0EB (Haringey)Last site: Friern Barnet N11 (Barnet)First sold beer: March 2017Ceased brewing: by early 2023

Taking his brand name from expressions such as ‘oddly delicious’, Brian Watson began cuckoo-brewing in […]

Tiny Vessel Brewing Co

Tiny Vessel, Hampton TW12 (London)

Brewery, no visitors please505 Platts Eyot, Hampton TW12 2HF (Richmond upon Thames)tinyvessel.co.ukFirst sold beer: December 2016Brewing suspended: by November 2021Brewing resumed: March 2022

One of London’s most unusually located breweries as well as one of its smallest, Tiny Vessel is in a small workshop on Platts Eyot, a privately-owned […]

Wrong Side of the Tracks Beer

Wrong Side of the Tracks Beer, London SE6

Closed breweryHither Green SE6 (Lewisham)wrongsideofthetracks.beerFirst sold beer: 8 August 2019Ceased brewing: by end 2021

Daniel Jackson was a frustrated IT professional and homebrewer who began working commercially on a part-time basis using a small scale using a 1 hl kit in a garage on the edge […]

Affinity Brew Co (Grosvenor Arms)

Affinity Brew Co, London SW9

Suspended brewpubOriginal site: Five Miles, 39B Markfield Road N15 4QA (Haringey)Second site: 7 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)Most recent site: Grosvenor Arms, 17 Sidney Road SW9 0TP (Lambeth)First sold beer: 10 December 2016 (at original site)Brewing suspended: by March 2024

Founded by Steve Grae, ex-Brew by Numbers, and Ben […]

London breweries year by year

London breweries […]

London breweries 2019

Signal Brewery, Beddington CR0 (London)

17 openings and revivals, 12 closures and suspensions, net change +5.

By the end of 2019, there were 130 commercial breweries operating in London, including 28 brewpubs. 14 were parts of multinationals (M). These breweries were:

40FT E8, Hackney Affinity Brew Co SE16, Southwark Anomaly Brewing KT3, Kingston upon […]

Beerblefish Brewing Co

Beerblefish Brewing Co, London N18

Closed breweryOriginal site: 6 Georgiou Business Park, Second Avenue N18 2PG (Enfield)Final site: 2A-4 Uplands Business Park, Blackhorse Lane E17 5QJ (Waltham Forest)beerblefish.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2016 (at original site)Ceased brewing: January 2025

Homebrewer James Atherton first brewed commercially as Beerblefish at UBREW late in 2015, but quickly decided […]