Battersea Brewery Battersea
Brewpub
12 Arches Lane, Battersea Power Station SW11 8AB (Wandsworth)
batterseabrew.co.uk
First sold beer: November 2018
Battersea Substation Bermondsey
Brewery, taproom
8 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)
batterseabrew.co.uk
First sold beer: 23 June 2018 (as Partizan), August 2023 (as Battersea)
One of London’s smarter railway arch breweries, this original Battersea brewpub occupies two arches on the southern approach to Grosvenor railway bridge. Facing Battersea Power Station just back from the riverside, it’s part of a strip of businesses serving the redeveloped site, close to the river and with Battersea Park only a short step away on the other side of the line. It’s the brainchild of former Draft House and Young’s manager Steve Kelly, created in partnership with the Mosaic pub group.
The arch closer to the river holds an 8 hl brewhouse and fermentation tanks, overseen by ex-Brodie’s and Hopcraft Pixie Spring brewer Tom Barlow, while the other is a post-industrial bar.
Operations expanded in August 2023 when the company took on the Bermondsey railway arch and brewing kit formerly belonging to Spartan Brewery (and originally occupied by Partizan). The taproom reopened on 17 August and brewing restarted the following week.
Brewing continues on the Battersea site too.
Beers are in tank, keg and canned using a mobile line, mainly sold through the taproom. A small amount of cask has always been brewed but this may expand following the extension to Bermondsey. In the past beers brewed onsite have usually been sold mainly through the taproom with Battersea brands sold in other Mosaic pubs cuckoo-brewed elsewhere due to capacity constraints at the brewpub. This may also change.
Tom also owns the Brodie’s brands and occasionally brews them on the Battersea kit.
There have been two other Battersea Breweries in the recent past, the first active 1983-89 (more under Sultan) and the second 2001-07: the current business is entirely unrelated. A much earlier Battersea Park Brewery was founded as Mason & Son in 1873 and renamed in 1899. It had closed by 1919.
Updated 1 September 2023.
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