Brewery
2 Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street E17 9HQ (Waltham Forest)
pillarsbrewery.com
First sold beer: October 2016
One of several welcome recent initiatives dedicated to brewing decent lager in London, Pillars (originally Four Pillars, though shortened just before the beer launched) was founded by brothers Eamonn, Samie and Omar Razaq with their friend Gavin Litton, who perfected the recipes over two years of test batches homebrewed in a garden shed belonging to the brothers’ parents.
Located in a former car body shop alongside Trap and the Wild Card Barrel Store in the buzzing surroundings of Walthamstow’s Ravenswood Industrial Estate, the brewery boasts a water treatment plant and decoction brewhouse as well as an eye-catching mural on the outer wall.
In June 2019 Pillars added another outlet besides the onsite taproom, the Untraditional Pub at Crate House, a boxpark-style development of recycled shipping containers by St James Street station. During the 2020 lockdowns, the original Ravenswood taproom was extensively refurbished in beer hall style.
Following the closure of Wild Card, Pillars too over its original brewing site and taproom at neighbouring Unit 7, reopening it in April 2025 as a bar and community space called the Malthaus.
The core beers are brewed with only malt, hops and water in accordance with the Bavarian purity law, fermented using Czech lager yeasts and properly lagered, then sold unfined, unfiltered and unpasteurised.
Updated 22 April 2025.
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