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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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Hoppy Collie Brewery

Hoppy Collie brewery, London

Closed brewery106 Fulham Palace Road W6 9PL (Hammersmith & Fulham)First sold beer: March 2013Ceased brewing: by end 2013

Californian expat homebrewer Travis Mooney installed a 2 hl kit in a basement under Hammersmith’s Symposio restaurant (now Kenta) during 2012, and after a few pilot runs, began selling US-influenced beers in […]

Florence Brewery (Greene King)

Florence, London SE24

Also known at various times as Craft Academy and A Head in a Hat.

Brewpub no longer brewing133 Dulwich Road SE24 0NG (Lambeth)florencehernehill.comFirst sold beer: September 2007Ceased brewing: by end 2018

Also:Cock and Hen (now known as the Cock Tavern)Brewpub no longer brewing360 North End Road SW6 1LY (Hammersmith & Fulham)First sold […]

Earls Brewery (Earl of Essex)

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

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

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)Last site: 1 Queens Yard, White Post Lane E9 5EN (Tower Hamlets)First sold beer: January 2015 (as Queens Head), March 2018 (as Old […]

Pressure Drop Brewing

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

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

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

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 […]

OMEBEER

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 […]