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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
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London breweries 2019

Signal Brewery, Beddington CR0 (London)

17 openings and revivals, 12 closures and suspensions, net change +5.

By the end of 2019, there were 130 commercial breweries operating in London, including 28 brewpubs. 14 were parts of multinationals (M). These breweries were:

40FT E8, Hackney Affinity Brew Co SE16, Southwark Anomaly Brewing KT3, Kingston upon […]

Beerblefish Brewing Co

Beerblefish Brewing Co, London N18

BreweryOriginal site: 6 Georgiou Business Park, Second Avenue N18 2PG (Enfield)Current site: 2A-4 Uplands Business Park, Blackhorse Lane E17 5QJ (Waltham Forest)beerblefish.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2016 (at original site)

Homebrewer James Atherton first brewed commercially as Beerblefish at UBREW late in 2015, but quickly decided he needed his own […]

Saint Monday Brewery (Grace Land)

Includes information for London Fields Brewery.

Saint Monday, London E8.

Brewery, taproomOriginal site (as London Fields): 374 Helmsley Place E8 3SB (Hackney)Current site: 4 Warburton Road E8 3RR (Hackney)saintmondaybrewery.ukFirst sold beer: 26 August 2011 (as London Fields at original site)Brewing suspended: March 2015Brewing restarted: September 2019Brewing suspended again: 8 December 2021Brewing restarted again (as […]

London Beer Lab

London Beer Lab, London SW9

BreweriesNano brews and tap: 41 Nursery Road SW9 8BP (Lambeth)Production brewery: 283 Belinda Road SW9 7DT (Lambeth)londonbeerlab.comFirst sold beer: December 2013 (Nano brews), February 2015 (production brewery)

This interesting combination of a brewing school, production brewery and taproom is the brainchild of French-born Bruno Alajouanine and Irishman Karl Durand […]

Inkspot Brewery

Inkspot Brewery, London SW16

BreweryOriginal site: Fox Hill SE19 2XE (Croydon)Current site: Rookery Barn, 40 Streatham Common South Road SW16 3BX (Lambeth)theinkspotbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 25 February 2012

Ex-Army officer Tom Talbot and restaurateur and art dealer Bradley Ridge began working together on a beer endorsed by charity Help for Heroes cuckoo-brewed at Tunnel in […]

Hiver Beers

Hiver Beers, London SE1

Including Fabal Beers.

Beer firmhiverbeers.comActive from: September 2013

Founded by Hannah Rhodes, formerly at Meantime, Hiver specialises in honey beers, made partly with London honey but brewed at Hepworth in West Sussex. An office and warehouse on the Bermondsey ‘mile’ near the Maltby Street Ropewalk doubles as a weekend bar.

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Old Fountain Brewhouse

Old Fountain Brewhouse, London EC1

Brewpub, brewing currently suspended3 Baldwin Street EC1V 9NU (Islington)oldfountain.co.ukFirst sold beer: July 2016Brewing suspended: November 2019

This former Whitbread pub has been in the Durrant family since 1964 and has been a free house since 2002. In mid-2017, a small in-house brewery was added: a 50 l Braumeister kit […]

Forest Road Brewing Co

Forest Road Brewery, London SE14.

Brewery1A Elizabeth Industrial Estate, Juno Way SE14 5RW (Lewisham)forestroadbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2021

The outspoken Pete Brown (not to be confused with the like-named beer writer), originally from Massachusetts, began homebrewing when living in New York City. Moving to the UK, he worked at Siren and Camden Town, and […]

Enefeld (Enfield Brewery)

Enefield Brewery, London N18

Closed brewery17A Eley Road N18 3BB (Enfield)enefeld.comFirst sold beer: June 2015Ceased brewing: February 2022

This Lea Valley outfit was the only contemporary London brewery to source water from its own well. It was founded by Rahul Mulchandani on a site adjacent to his family’s cash and carry warehouse just off […]

Bohem Brewery

Bohem Brewery, London N17

BreweryOriginal site: 227 Whittington Road N22 8YW (Enfield)Current site: 5 Littleline House, 43 West Road N17 0RE (Haringey)bohembrewery.comFirst sold beer: June 2016 (at original site)

One of the most unusual and remarkable new breweries in London and indeed the UK, Bohem focuses on serious craft lagers in the Czech tradition, […]