Brewery
8 Stirling Way, Beddington Farm Road, Croydon CR0 4XN (Sutton)
signallager.com
coalitionbrewing.co.uk
First sold beer: January 2016
The roots of Signal go back to the day when South African-born chemical engineer Murray Roos’s children claimed the garden shed, previously home to his homebrewing setup, as a play space, and his wife told him this was his signal to find commercial premises. He teamed up with a fellow parent at his children’s school, Charlie Luckin, who had a background in wine and hospitality, and the pair set up on a Beddington industrial estate a few steps from Therapia Lane tram stop, just in Sutton but with a Croydon postcode.
The original 12 hl brewhouse, still in use, was supplied by PBC, while the brewery has since added several extra fermenters and a canning line. The original intention was to specialise in craft lagers but these were soon supplemented by ale styles and, from 2018, cask:.
There’s a taproom at the brewery though it’s currently open only for special events. This may change when Anspach & Hobday, who moved in across the yard in 2020, return to opening their taproom regularly. A Signal bar opeated at the O2 (Peninsula Square SE10 0DX) since July 2017, originally in the Garden on the ground floor. Following the lifting of the 2021 lockdowns, this moved to a bigger space on the first floor, known as Cloud 9, but was closed in January 2024.
Coalition Brewing, meanwhile, was launched as a separate lager brewing business in 2017 by three locals based in Purley and initially brewing at Hepworth in Pulborough, West Sussex. They planned to open a brewpub in central Croydon during 2019 but the site fell through thanks to a regeneration scheme. In 2021, an attempt to open at a second site also failed.
In late 2022, Coalition head brewer Charlotte Cook began brewing the brands on the former SlyBeast kit at the Ram Inn, Wandsworth, with the beer eventually available in the pub. This arrangement ended at short notice in early January 2024 and Coalition returned to cuckoo brewing at Hepworth while continuing to seek its own site.
In May 2025, Signal and Coalition announced they had merged, with the latter’s beer now brewed at Signal’s site, which has expanded its capacity with equipment acquired from the defunct Fourpure. Both will continue with their own brand identities. As both are primarily lager brewers with links to the Croydon area, this seems a good fit.
Beers are in keg, cask and can, with some contract bottling at SEB, and all at session strength.
Updated 1 September 2025.
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