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Closed brewery344a Essex Road N1 3PD (Islington)First sold beer: March 2017Ceased brewing: by June 2018
This small brewery in the cellar of the Borough Wines bottle shop in Islington made beer in bottles and 5 l minicasks for sale in the shop. Brewing ceased after just over a year and shop has since been […]
Common Rioters Beer, London SE3.
Beer firm, planned brewpubThe Green Goddess, 43A Vanburgh Park SE3 7AB (Lewisham)commonriotersbeer.co.uk Active since: June 2019
The brainchild of ex-Brewhouse and Kitchen brewer Stephen O’Connor and his beer sommelier wife Maryann, Common Rioters has been active as a southeast London-based cuckoo since 2019. Beers have been brewed at a […]
Coalition Brewing
Beer firm, planned brewerycoalitionbrewing.co.ukActive since: 2017
Launched in 2017 by three locals based in Purley and initially brewing at Hepworth in Pulborough, West Sussex, Coalition 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 […]
Cellar Boys, London SE14
Closed brewpub and beer firm184 New Cross Road SE14 5AA (Lewisham)First sold beer: March 2017Ceased brewing: around July 2018, active as a cuckoo until 2020.
Paddy and Joseph Ryan began this brewery in 2017 with a 50 l Braumeister kit in the cellar of their pub, the White Hart in […]
Br3wery, Beckenham BR3 (London)
Brewery, visitors to nearby taproom onlyOriginal site: Mackenzie Road, Beckenham BR3 4RY (Bromley)Second site: 253 Beckenham Road, Beckenham BR3 4RP (Bromley)Current site (no visitors please) Birkbeck Road, Beckenham BR3 4SNbr3wery.comFirst sold beer: February 2019 (at original site)
Cadú Gomes began brewing commercially on a small scale using a home-based kit […]
Beer firmbloomsburyleisuregroup.comActive since: 2018
Bloomsbury is a brand used for exclusive beers commissioned for the Bloomsbury Leisure Group, which owns the Euston Tap and its sister pubs. The beers originate at a variety of breweries in the UK and elsewhere, including Five Points.
The name was previously used for an unrelated brewery at […]
24 openings and revivals, 7 closures and suspensions, net change +17.
By the end of 2018, there were 125 commercial breweries operating in London, including 32 brewpubs. Seven were parts of multinationals (M). These breweries were:
40FT Brewery E8, Hackney Affinity Brew Co SE16, Southwark Alphabeta Brewery (Pitt Cue) EC2, City of London, brewpub […]
Kentish Town Brewery, London NW5
Brewery not currently brewing, no visitors pleaseKentish Town NW5 1UF (Camden)kentishtownbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2017Brewing suspended: by October 2019
This small home-based brewery was placed on hold in late 2019 while brewer Mark Drayton made a trip to Australia for family reasons. He expected to return and resume brewing […]
Fearless Nomad Brewing, Brentford (London) TW8
Brewpub not currently brewing17 Albany Road, Brentford TW8 0NF (Hounslow)blackdogbeerhouse.co.ukFirst sold beer: 18 January 2020Brewing suspended: by June 2023
After many years setting up and operating beer-friendly pubs for other companies, Ash Zobell and brothers Pete and James Brew refurbished and reopened this pub in a Brentford backstreet […]
Up the Creek Brewery, London SE10
Brewpub302 Creek Road SE10 9SW (Greenwich)up-the-creek.comFirst sold beer: 31 October 2018
Perhaps not the most obvious place you’d expect to find an in-house brewery, Greenwich institution Up the Creek is a comedy club in a former church hall founded by the late comedian Malcolm Hardee in 1991. But […]
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