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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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"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
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By the Horns Brewing Co

By the Horns Brewing Co, London SW17

Brewery, brewing at London site currently suspended25 Summerstown SW17 0BQ (Wandsworth)bythehorns.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2011

Alex Bull and Chris Mills, then only three years out of university, started brewing on an industrial estate between Earlsfield and Wimbledon in September 2011, using a bespoke 9 hl kit from […]

London’s short-lived Truebrew pubs

Still and Star, London E1

George and DragonBrewpub, no longer brewing 151 Cleveland Street W1T 6QN (Westminster)First sold beer: December 2016Ceased brewing: November 2017

Still and StarClosed brewpub1 Little Somerset Street E1 8AH (City of London)First sold beer: December 2014Ceased brewing: June 2015

W1 (Burlington Arms)Brewpub, no longer brewing21 Old Burlington Street W1S 2JL […]

Bullfinch Brewery

Includes information for Bull and Finch and So What Brewing Co.

Bullfinch Brewery, London SE24

BreweryOriginal site: 118 Druid Street SE1 2HH (Southwark)Current site: 886 Rosendale Road SE24 9EH (Lambeth)thebullfinchbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 1 February 2014

BrewpubBull and Finch, 126 Gipsy Hill SE19 1PL (Southwark)First sold beer: April 2022

Bullfinch mural at the like-named brewery. […]

Brodie’s Fabulous Beers

Brodie’s Beers, London E10

Includes information for Sweet William Brewery.

Beer firm, former brewpub Original site: William IV, 816A High Road E10 6AE First sold beer: November 2000 (as Sweet William), 20 August 2008 (as Brodie’s) Ceased brewing: July 2016

The story of this major early contributor to the revival of London brewing […]

Brockley Brewery

Brockley Brewery, London SE4 and SE12

Brewery28 Chiltonian Industrial Estate SE12 0TX (Lewisham)brockleybrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2019

Suspended brewery (remains open as bar)31 Harcourt Road SE4 2AJ (Lewisham)First sold beer: 22 March 2013Brewing suspended: September 2024

Brockley was founded at the initiative of Andy Rowland and five neighbours in 2013 in response to a […]

Brixton Brewery (Heineken)

Brixton Brewery, London SW9

Brewery547 Brixton Station Road SW9 8PF (Lambeth)brixtonbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2013

Closed brewery1 Dylan Road SE24 0HL (Lambeth)First sold beer: June 2018Ceased brewing: September 2024

Conceived as early as 2011 by homebrewing neighbours Jez Galaun and Mike Ross, Brixton eventually opened two years with a 10 hl brewhouse from Oban […]

Brick Brewery (Keystone)

Brick Brewery, London SE8.

Brewery moved outside LondonOriginal site: 209 Blenheim Grove SE15 4QL (Southwark) Final site in London: 13 Deptford Industrial Estate, Blackhorse Road SE8 5HY (Lewisham)brickbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2013 (at original site)Brewing ceased in London: November 2023

Former head brewer Pete Vick (left) and founder Ian Stewart of Brick.

Like countless […]

Brewhouse and Kitchen

Includes information for The Botanist and The Lamb (closed brewpubs).

Brewhouse and Kitchen, London N1

Brewpubsbrewhouseandkitchen.comHighbury: 2a Corsica Street N5 1JJ (Islington)First sold beer: 22 June 2015

Hoxton: 397 Geffrye Street E2 8HZ (Hackney)First sold beer: December 2018

Islington: Torrens Street EC1V 1NG (Islington)First sold beer: October 2014Brewing suspended: September 2022, unlikely […]

BBNo (Brew by Numbers) (Keystone)

Brew by Numbers, London SE10.

Closed breweryOriginal site: 66 Southwark Bridge Road SE1 0AS (Southwark, since closed)Second site, later pilot brewery: 79 Enid Street SE16 3RA (Southwark, since closed)Barrel Store: 1 Bellenden Business Park SE15 4RF (Southwark, since closed)Production brewery: South Warehouse, Greenwich Beach, Morden Wharf Road SE10 0PA (Greenwich)bbno.coFirst sold beer (at original […]

Bloomsbury Brewery (Perseverance)

Bloomsbury Brewery, London WC1

Brewpub, no longer brewing 63 Lambs Conduit Street WC1N 3NB First sold beer: August 2014 Ceased brewing: October 2015

Bloomsbury began as a small brewery in the cellar of the Perseverance pub, an ex-Charrington free house at the above address, installed by then-owner Pete Millington. It brewed only occasionally […]