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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
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"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
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The Five Points Brewing Co

The Five Points Brewing Co, London E8

BreweryOriginal site: 3 Institute Place E8 1JE (Hackney, brewing ceased March 2021)Current site: 61 Mare Street E8 4RG (Hackney)fivepointsbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: 22 March 2013 (at original site)

Five Points is one of the claimants to the title of London’s biggest independent brewery, producing around 18,000 hl in […]

Temple Brew House (City Pubs/Young’s)

Formerly Essex Street Brewing.

Temple Brew House, London WC2

Brewpub46 Essex Street WC2R 3JF (Westminster)templebrewhouse.com/breweryFirst sold beer: 20 December 2014, as Essex Street BrewingBrewing suspended: March 2020Brewing restarted: May 2022

Pub chain the City Pub Co already had brewpubs in Bath and Cambridge when it added a London branch near the Temple late in […]

East London Brewing Co

East London Brewing Co, London E10

Brewery45 Fairways Business Centre, Lammas Road E10 7QB (Waltham Forest)eastlondonbrewing.comFirst sold beer: September 2011

Former research and development chemist Stu Lascelles switched career paths in the autumn of 2011 by setting up East London Brewing (sometimes known as ELB) with his wife Claire Ashbridge-Thomlinson. The first in what’s […]

Earth Ale

Earth Ale, London N22

Brewery now brewing outside LondonA007 The Chocolate Factory, 5 Clarendon Road N22 6XJ (Haringey)earthale.comFirst sold beer: July 2015Ceased brewing in London: November 2021

This project was the brainchild of professional chef Alex Lewis, a specialist in foraged ingredients who began brewing commercially on a very small scale at home for […]

Portobello Brewing Co (Sunrise Alliance)

Portobello Brewing Co, London W10

Brewery6 Mitre Bridge Industrial Park, Mitre Way W10 6AU (Kensington & Chelsea)portobellobrewing.comFirst sold beer: December 2012

See also George and Dragon (Dragonfly, Portobello at the George)

While most recent brewery start-ups in London are the work of enterprising homebrewers, Portobello was an initiative from the established industry. Back in 2006, […]

The Cronx Brewery

The Cronx Brewery, New Addington (London) CR0

Brewery6 Vulcan Business Centre, Vulcan Way, New Addington, Croydon CR0 9UG (Croydon)thecronx.comFirst sold beer: 6 August 2012

Drinks wholesaler Mark Russell and city worker-turned-brewer Simon Dale founded the Cronx as the first standalone brewery in Croydon since Page and Overton closed in 1954, operating from a 20 […]

Crate Brewery

Crate Brewery, London E9

Beer firm, former brewpub, no longer brewing7 Queens Yard, White Post Lane E9 5EN (Tower Hamlets)cratebrewery.comFirst sold beer: 18 July 2012Brewing ceased: July 2020

Opened just in time for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by New Zealanders Tom and Jess Seaton, of the Counter Café nearby, and friend and […]

Clarkshaws Brewing

Clarkshaws Brewing, London SW9

BreweryOriginal site: 8 Tyrrell Trading Estate, Tyrrell Road SE22 9NA (Southwark)Second site: 283 Belinda Road SW9 7DT (Lambeth)Current site: 497 Ridgway Road SW9 7EX (Lambeth)clarkshaws.co.ukFirst sold beer: 29 September 2013 (at original site)

Self-styled “beer imps” Ian Clark and Lucy Grimshaw’s enterprise began in a small industrial unit in East […]

Bird House Brewery

Bird House Brewery, London SE24

Formerly Canopy Beer Co.

BreweryArch 1127 Bath Factory Estate, 41 Norwood Road SE24 9AJ (Southwark)birdhouselondon.comFirst sold beer (as Canopy): 30 October 2014Brewing suspended: November 2022Brewing resumed (as Bird House): March 2024

Small independent hospitality group Bird House was founded by Frazer Timmerman, formerly at London Fields and Truman’s, with […]

Camden Town Brewery (AB InBev)

Camden Town Brewery, London NW5 and Enfield (London) EN3

Formerly Horseshoe Brewery, McLaughlins.

BreweriesOriginal site: Horseshoe, 28 Heath Street NW3 6TE (Camden)Arch 55 brewery and beer hall: 55 Wilkin Street Mews NW5 3NN (Camden) Production brewery: Morson Road, Enfield EN3 4TJ (Enfield)camdentownbrewery.comFirst sold beer: May 2006 (as McLaughlins)

Now one of London’s biggest breweries, […]