Brewery
36 Jaggard Way (taproom 44 Jaggard Way) SW12 8SG (Wandsworth)
bellevillebrewing.co.uk
First sold beer: 30 March 2013
Musician Adrian Thomas was prompted to become a homebrewer when he organised a beer festival as a fundraiser for his son’s school, Belleville Primary. He took things a stage further by getting together with nine other Belleville dads to set up a brewery on a small industrial estate on the other side of the railway from Wandsworth Common station.
It began with an 8 hl kit, selling mainly through local outlets. After successfully fighting off a misjudged legal threat from AB InBev in 2013, alleging infringement of its trademark for sweetened lambic Belle Vue, it expanded in the summer of 2016 with a new 24 hl brewhouse from American Beer Equipment in Lincoln, Nebraska, alongside a canning line. A taproom was opened a few doors down in January 2017.
Beers are mainly in keg and can, with a few casks for selected outlets. The US slant is acknowledged in the longstanding strapline “Beers from over there, brewed over here”.
Updated 13 January 2020
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