Brewery
46 Druid Street SE1 2EZ (Southwark)
southwarkbrewing.co.uk
First sold beer: October 2014
Unusually for the owner of a new London brewery, Southwark co-founder Peter Jackson is an industry veteran, with many years at Whitbread and Marston’s on his CV, including as marketing director at the latter. He created this brewery, the fifth in Bermondsey and the closest to central London, with the help of another long-serving industry figure, Rooster’s founder Sean Franklin, a key early UK champion of New World hops.
It’s rather smaller than Peter’s former employers, with a 13.5 hl brewhouse in a single arch, just behind a lively taproom which holds the welcome distinction of offering the widest choice of house-brewed cask beer on the ‘beer mile’.
Beers in cask and keg are sold relatively widely outside the brewery including in various chain pubs. They are also hand-bottled and packaged in minikeg and can, for sale mainly from the brewery itself. The names usually have a local connection.
Previously the brand Big Bear was used for some of the keg beers but this has since been dropped.
Updated 15 December 2021.
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