Brewery
Original site: 95 Elm Road, Kingston upon Thames KT2 6HX (Kingston upon Thames)
Current site: 7 Hampden Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 3LG (Kingston upon Thames)
theparkbrewery.com
First sold beer: March 2014
Originally, the Park Brewery was a very small 1.5 hl operation in Kingston started by husband and wife team Josh and Frankie Kearns to brew bottled beers for the Jam Tree pubs in Clapham and Chelsea. It was named for its proximity to Richmond Park.
Activities soon expanded and diversified, initially growing to a 6 hl kit, but problems with the premises led to the suspension of brewing in March 2018. For a while beer was cuckoo-brewed at Reunion Ales and Hop Back in Wiltshire.
A crowdfunding campaign allowed a move to the current, larger, site on a small industrial estate. Production restarted in February 2019 on a 25 hl brewhouse custom-made by Johnson Brewing Design, with space to expand further and a taproom upstairs.
The move was overseen by head brewer Adam Hardy, formerly at Reunion, who has since moved on, replaced by Phil Banks, ex-Battersea.
Park opened a second, non-brewing outlet in March 2024, Park Brew and Kitchen, only a short walk from the southwest corner of Richmond Park.
Beer is packaged in keg, cask and can and most of the names have some connection to the park.
Updated 21 October 2024.
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