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Gravity Well Brewing Co, London N17.
BreweryOriginal site: 142 Tilbury Road E10 6RE (Waltham Forest)Current production site: 1 Compass West Estate, 33 West Road N17 0XL (Haringey)gravitywellbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: September 2018 (at original site)
Founder Ben Duck had already given up his career as a financial lawyer before deciding to turn the appealing mix […]
Formerly Goose Island Brewpub Shoreditch.
Queen’s Head Shoreditch, London E1
Former brewpub221 Shoreditch High Street E1 6PJ (Hackney)queensheadshoreditch.comFirst sold beer: 21 November 2018Ceased brewing: September 2022, brewhouse removed by November 2023
Chicago brewery Goose Island, founded in 1988 and part of AB InBev since 2011, established its first London home, the Vintage Ale House, […]
The Goodness Brewing Co, London N22
Brewery5a Clarendon Yard, Coburg Road N22 6TZ (Haringey)thegoodnessbrew.coFirst sold beer: September 2019 (at own site)
The Goodness emerged out of the amusingly named Wood Green Hopping City, founded in 2016 as one of several community hop collectives in London, groups of locals who grow hops in gardens and […]
German Kraft, London SE1
Brewpubsgermankraftbeer.com
Mercato Metropolitano Elephant42 Newington Causeway SE1 6DR (Southwark)First sold beer: 10 March 2018
Mercato Mayfair13A North Audley Street W1K 6ZA (Westminster)First sold beer: November 2020
Kraft Dalston130A Kingsland High Road E8 2LQ (Hackney)First sold beer: December 2020
The first German Kraft opened in December 2017 in the first Mercato […]
Gan Yam Brew Co, London SE17
Brewery, now brewing outside London149 Hillingdon Street SE17 3JH (Southwark)ganyambrew.co.ukFirst sold beer: December 2018Ceased brewing in London: January 2021
This very small brewery began as a cuckoo in 2018 but has also brewed commercially on a 1.5 hl home-based kit. The name means ‘go home’ in Cumbrian dialect […]
Hackney Church Brew Co, London E8
Brewpub16 Bohemia Place E8 1DU (Hackney)hackneychurchbrew.coFirst sold beer: 16 June 2018
This handsome brewpub in two railway arches on Hackney’s ‘brewery row’ was co-founded by head brewer Ryan Robbins, originally from Missouri, who oversees a 20 hl automated brewhouse from German suppliers Braukon, complete with water purifier and […]
Husk Brewing, London E16
Suspended breweryOriginal site: 58A Railway Arches, North Woolwich Road E16 2AA (Newham)Current site: The Factory Project, Factory Road E16 2HB (Newham, no visitors please)Taproom: 1A Brunel Street Works, 5 Silvertown Way, London E16 1EAhuskbrewing.comFirst sold beer: January 2016Brewing suspended: February 2023
Despite its original address and against London expectations, this […]
Jeffersons Brewery, Richmond (London) TW9
Closed breweryRichmond TW9 (Richmond upon Thames)jeffersonsbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 8 July 2017Ceased brewing: September 2022
One of London’s smaller commercial breweries, Jeffersons derived its name from homebrewing brothers Freddie and George Jefferies, who first sold their beer at the Barnes Fair in July 2017 after two years of planning and […]
Kanpai London Craft Sake, London SE1
BreweryOriginal site: 11 Print Village, 58 Chadwick Road SE15 4PU (Southwark)Second site: 2A-2 Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Road SE15 3SN (Southwark)Current site (from September 2023): 48 Druid Street SE1 2EZ (Southwark)kanpai.londonFirst sold beer: June 2017
The first sake brewery in the UK and one of only seven in […]
Previously Little Creatures Regents Canal.
Babel Beerhouse, London N1
Brewpub, brewing currently suspended1 Lewis Cubitt Walk N1C 4DL (Camden)babelbeerhouse.comFirst sold beer: 5 May 2019 (as Little Creatures Regents Canal)Brewing suspended: August 2022Brewing resumed: March 2023Brewing suspended again: December 2023
This substantial brewpub in the Kings Cross redevelopment opened in May 2019 as the London […]
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