Brewery now brewing outside London
A007 The Chocolate Factory, 5 Clarendon Road N22 6XJ (Haringey)
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First sold beer: July 2015
Ceased 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 a series of beer and food matching dinners he hosted at various south London venues in 2015.
Following a period of cuckoo brewing, Alex opened a taproom in the unusual location of a disused double-decker bus shared with a daytime café in Blue House Yard, Wood Green. He found space for his own brewery a short walk from the bus in July 2018, in the former Barratt’s biscuit factory, then known as the Chocolate Factory. A 200 l kit was used as a stopgap until April 2019 when beer began flowing from a more professional 10 hl brewhouse.
Alex had to quit the Chocolate Factory in November 2021 as it was due for demolition and redevelopment. He found a new site outside London at a vineyard near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The demands of relocation made it impractical to continue with the bus too, so sadly London lost one of its most interesting breweries and quirkiest beer venues.
Beers were in keg and bottle-conditioned form.
Updated 9 December 2021.
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