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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
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London breweries 2022

The nanobrewery at BBNo, Bermondsey, April 2022.

9 openings and revivals, 19 suspensions and closures, net change -10.

By the end of December 2022, there were 122 commercial breweries operating in London, including 29 brewpubs. Those breweries were:

3 Locks Brewing Company NW1, Camden NEW! 40FT Brewery E8, Hackney Affinity Brew Co (Grosvenor Arms) SW9, […]

Lucky Saint

Lucky Saint, London W1.

Beer firmAlso known as Not Another Beer Co.58 Devonshire Street, London W1W 5EAluckysaint.coActive since: October 2018

Founded by Luke Boase, London-based Lucky Saint commissions a much-admired and widely available unfiltered alcohol-free pale lager to its own recipe. The beer is made at a historic Bavarian brewery in accordance with the […]

Firkin Brewery (Fox and Firkin Lewisham)

BrewpubBrewery: 15 Whitburn Road SE13 7UQ (Lewisham)Pub: 316 Lewisham High Street SE13 6JZfoxfirkin.comFirst sold beer: October 2023

Firkin Brewery, London SE13

This busy music pub became a brewpub towards the end of 2023, with a facility known as the Firkin brewery added in a former Sainsbury’s depot at the back. The project was the […]

3 Locks Brewing Company

Also known as Hawley Wharf Brewing Company.

3 Locks Brewing Company, London NW1

BreweryArch N4 Dockray Place NW1 8QD (Camden)3locksbeer.comFirst sold beer: November 2022

Founded by Marinos Alexandrou of the 56 Isle brewery in Paros, Greece, this enterprise occupies several arches under two branches of the Overground, with a taproom and shop located in […]

Great Beyond Brewing Co

Great Beyond Brewing Co, London E2

Brewpub417 Union Walk E2 8HP (Hackney)greatbeyond.beerFirst sold beer: 4 November 2022

This arch-based brewery under Hoxton station was founded by ex-Fourpure brewers John Driebergen (who has been brewing in London since 2011, initially with Meantime) and Ollie Parker.

It occupies three adjacent arches under the Overground at Hoxton, […]

My new book explores the pleasures and secrets of cask beer

18 gallon (82 l) casks of Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby in the cellar of the Beacon Hotel, Sedgley, Dudley.

Cask beer is a unique format of live draught beer that, at its best and freshest, delivers a subtlety and complexity of flavour in session beers of modest strength unmatchable in any other way. Rarely […]

London breweries 2000

4 openings or revivals, 4 closures, net change 0.

By the end of 2000, there were 16 commercial breweries operating in London, including eight brewpubs. These breweries were:

Anheuser-Busch UK (Stag) SW14, Richmond upon Thames: AB previously rented this but bought it outright from Scottish Courage this year. Freedom Brewery SW6, Hammersmith & Fulham […]

The Firkin Brewery (Bruce’s Brewery, Allied)

The Firkin Brewery (Bruce’s Brewery), London

Brewpubs closed or no longer brewing

Goose and Firkin (Duke of York), 47 Borough Road SE1 1DR (Southwark)and eventually at 19 other London locations: see list below.First sold beer: July 1979Ceased brewing at all sites: October 1999

The Firkin brewpub chain was one of the most prominent features […]

Clifton Inns (Scottish & Newcastle)

Brewpubs no longer brewing

Kingston Brewing Co (Flamingo and Firkin, Flamingo Brewery)88 London Road, Kingston KT2 6PX (Kingston upon Thames)First sold beer: September 1987 (as Flamingo and Firkin)Ceased brewing: January 1998 (as Kingston Brewing Co)

The Orange Brewery (The Orange)37 Pimlico Road SW1 (Westminster)First sold beer: February 1983Ceased brewing: February 2001

The Yorkshire Grey […]

More Lash

More Lash, London.

Beer firmmorelashbrewery.comActive since: Spring 2022

This contract-brewed lager claims to originate from Clapham. The brand is fronted by comedy podcaster Archie Curzon, known for his parodies of southwest London ‘rugby lads’, though he’s not listed among the registered company directors. For every can sold, 10p is donated to rugby players’ charity […]