Watling Street Beer

Closed brewery
Original site: Hillfield Lane, Aldenham WD25 (Hertfordshire, outside London)
Second site: Unit 2A, 6 Greycaine Rd, Watford WD24 7GP (Hertfordshire, outside London)
Final site: 8 Triumph Trading Estate, Tariff Road N17 0EB (Haringey)
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First sold beer: January 2015 (at original site)
Ceased brewing: by June 2020

As London’s brewing scene continued to boom into the late 2010s, one Tottenham industrial building witnessed a particularly rapid shuffling of brewery projects. The unit at Triumph Trading Estate, close to Bohem, One Mile End and Redemption, was already partly occupied by a drinks packaging business, Brew and Bottle, which in 2018 invited Oddly brewery to occupy spare space, with the host company also cuckoo brewing under the name Trial and Error.

In September 2019, they were joined by a second brewery, Watling Street, founded almost five years before by Rudi Keyser as the Radlett Beer Co and previously at locations just outside London in Aldenham and Watford, taking its current name from the Roman road that runs through these areas. The intention was to form a partnership called Tottenham Brewing but this didn’t work out. By December 2019, Oddly had left and Brew and Bottle reclaimed its spare space.

Watling Street meanwhile moved its 16 hl kit, originally supplied by Pallet Brew in Bolton, to a neighbouring unit, planning to add a taproom. But progress was interrupted by the 2020-21 Covid-19 lockdowns and by summer 2020 the brewery had ceased trading. Its host, Brew and Bottle, itself went into administration in February 2021.

Updated 16 December 2021.

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