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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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Brewpubs no longer brewing

Kingston Brewing Co (Flamingo and Firkin, Flamingo Brewery)88 London Road, Kingston KT2 6PX (Kingston upon Thames)First sold beer: September 1987 (as Flamingo and Firkin)Ceased brewing: January 1998 (as Kingston Brewing Co)

The Orange Brewery (The Orange)37 Pimlico Road SW1 (Westminster)First sold beer: February 1983Ceased brewing: February 2001

The Yorkshire Grey […]

Watneys Beer

Watneys Beer, London

Beer firmActive since: April 2016

Generations of drinkers must have thought they’d seen the back of this once-notorious London brand: see Stag Brewery. But in 2016 it was back, licensed by Nick Whitehurst of Brands Reunited from Heineken.

There have never been any plans for a separate brewery. Originally the beer, […]

Stag Brewery Mortlake (AB InBev UK, Watney Mann)

A once-familiar bar mount for Watney’s notorious keg bitter Red Barrel.

Closed breweryLower Richmond Road SW14 7ET (Richmond upon Thames)First sold beer: 1641Ceased brewing: December 2015

See also the entry for the current Watneys Beer.

This riverside brewery in Mortlake was the last working remnant of old school big brewing left in London before […]