Brewpub no longer brewing
25 Danbury Street N1 8LE (Islington)
First sold beer: April 2013
Ceased brewing: December 2014
Beer-friendly independent chain Barworks reopened Islington’s Earl of Essex pub in July 2012 as part of its craft-focused Grace Land group, and added an 8 hl brewhouse the following year. Beers in cask and keg were sold in the pub with ambitions to supply other outlets too.
When the brewer left at the end of 2014, the kit fell dormant, and its revival was complicated by an infection problem in the pub cellar. Though this was subsequently solved, brewing remained suspended, with the owners eventually abandoning plans to revive it due to restricted space. The kit was subsequently removed and sold, and is currently at Holy Goat in Dundee. The pub continues to sell an excellent range of other people’s beer.
Grace Land revived its brewing activities on a much larger scale in August 2023 when it reopened the former London Fields brewery as Saint Monday.
Last updated 14 December 2023.
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