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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.
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"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Earl of Essex, London N1, former home to Earls Brewery
Brewpub no longer brewing25 Danbury Street N1 8LE (Islington)First sold beer: April 2013Ceased brewing: December 2014
Beer-friendly independent chain Barworks reopened Islington’s Earl of Essex pub in July 2012 as part of its craft-focused Grace Land group, and added an 8 hl brewhouse the […]
Brüpond Brewery
Closed brewery4 Leyton Studios, 15 Argall Avenue E10 7QE (Waltham Forest)First sold beer: November 2012Ceased brewing: October 2013
A crowdfunded business that raised £15,000 online in 15 days, Brüpond produced keg and bottled beers aimed at “beer adventurers” from a 10 hl kit on a Leyton industrial estate. Brewer and founder David […]
Old Street Brewery, London E2
Includes information for Queens Head brewpub.
Closed brewery, former brewpubOriginal site: Queens Head, 66 Acton Street WC1X 9NB (Camden)Second site: 11 Gales Gardens E2 0EJ (Tower Hamlets)Current site: 1 Queens Yard, White Post Lane E9 5EN (Tower Hamlets)oldstreet.beerFirst sold beer: January 2015 (as Queens Head), March 2018 (as Old […]
Pressure Drop brewery, London N17.
BreweryOriginal site: 5B Wilmer Business Park, Wilmer Place N16 0LW (Hackney)Second site: 19 Bohemia Place E8 1DU (Hackney)Current site: 6 Lockwood Industrial Park, Mill Mead Road N17 9QP (Haringey)pressuredropbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: 12 January 2013
Former Euston Tap cellarman Graham O’Brien and Sam Smith (no relation to the famous Yorkshire […]
Partizan Brewing, London SE16.
Brewery, no longer in LondonOriginal site: 8 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)Second site: 34 Raymouth Road SE16 2DB (Southwark)partizanbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2012Ceased brewing in London: 10 March 2023
Former chef, White Horse Parsons Green cellarman and Redemption brewer Andy Smith had the opportunity to create his own brewery when […]
The Park Brewery, Kingston upon Thames (London) KT1
BreweryOriginal site: 95 Elm Road, Kingston upon Thames KT2 6HX (Kingston upon Thames)Current site: 7 Hampden Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 3LG (Kingston upon Thames)theparkbrewery.comFirst sold beer: March 2014
Originally, the Park Brewery was a very small 1.5 hl operation in Kingston started by husband and […]
Orbit Beers, London SE17
Brewery225 Fielding Street SE17 3HD (Southwark)(Taproom at 233 Fielding Street SE17 3HJ)orbitbeers.comFirst sold beer: August 2014
Robert Middleton worked in occupational pensions until deciding to take a career break travelling round his native Scotland visiting breweries, resulting in a book, The Tea Leaf Paradox: Discovering Beer in the Land of […]
Formerly One Mile End, Mulligans.
OME Beer, London N17
Closed brewery, former brewpubOriginal site: White Hart, 1 Mile End Road E1 4TP (Tower Hamlets)Second site: 2 Compass West Estate, West Road N17 0XL (Haringey)First sold beer: June 2013 (at original site as Mulligans; second site first sold beer as Redemption February 2010)Ceased brewing: January […]
Monkey Chews Brewery, London SE15. Pic: South East London CAMRA.
Closed brewpubMontague Arms, 289 Queens Road SE15 2PAFirst sold beer: June 2015Ceased brewing: by end 2015
The landmark Montague Arms, a big roadside pub between New Cross and Peckham which was once renowned as a music venue, was rescued from potential closure in 2014. Brewing […]
Mondo Brewing, London SW8
Brewery86 Stewarts Road SW8 4UG (Wandsworth)mondobrewingcompany.comFirst sold beer: April 2015
In a distinctive industrial building on a quiet street between Battersea Power Station and Clapham, Mondo was created by two US expat homebrewers, Tom Palmer and Todd Matteson.
After some early pilot beers at UBREW, it began commercial production in March 2015 […]
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