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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
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London’s short-lived Truebrew pubs

Still and Star, London E1

George and DragonBrewpub, no longer brewing 151 Cleveland Street W1T 6QN (Westminster)First sold beer: December 2016Ceased brewing: November 2017

Still and StarClosed brewpub1 Little Somerset Street E1 8AH (City of London)First sold beer: December 2014Ceased brewing: June 2015

W1 (Burlington Arms)Brewpub, no longer brewing21 Old Burlington Street W1S 2JL […]

Bullfinch Brewery

Includes information for Bull and Finch and So What Brewing Co.

Bullfinch Brewery, London SE24

BreweryOriginal site: 118 Druid Street SE1 2HH (Southwark)Current site: 886 Rosendale Road SE24 9EH (Lambeth)thebullfinchbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: 1 February 2014

BrewpubBull and Finch, 126 Gipsy Hill SE19 1PL (Southwark)First sold beer: April 2022

Bullfinch mural at the like-named brewery. […]

Brockley Brewery

Brockley Brewery, London SE4 and SE12

Brewery28 Chiltonian Industrial Estate SE12 0TX (Lewisham)brockleybrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2019

Suspended brewery (remains open as bar)31 Harcourt Road SE4 2AJ (Lewisham)First sold beer: 22 March 2013Brewing suspended: September 2024

Brockley was founded at the initiative of Andy Rowland and five neighbours in 2013 in response to a […]

Brixton Brewery (Heineken)

Brixton Brewery, London SW9

Brewery547 Brixton Station Road SW9 8PF (Lambeth)brixtonbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2013

Closed brewery1 Dylan Road SE24 0HL (Lambeth)First sold beer: June 2018Ceased brewing: September 2024

Conceived as early as 2011 by homebrewing neighbours Jez Galaun and Mike Ross, Brixton eventually opened two years with a 10 hl brewhouse from Oban […]

Brick Brewery (Keystone)

Brick Brewery, London SE8.

Brewery moved outside LondonOriginal site: 209 Blenheim Grove SE15 4QL (Southwark) Final site in London: 13 Deptford Industrial Estate, Blackhorse Road SE8 5HY (Lewisham)brickbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2013 (at original site)Brewing ceased in London: November 2023

Former head brewer Pete Vick (left) and founder Ian Stewart of Brick.

Like countless […]

BBNo (Brew by Numbers) (Keystone)

Brew by Numbers, London SE10.

Closed breweryOriginal site: 66 Southwark Bridge Road SE1 0AS (Southwark, since closed)Second site, later pilot brewery: 79 Enid Street SE16 3RA (Southwark, since closed)Barrel Store: 1 Bellenden Business Park SE15 4RF (Southwark, since closed)Production brewery: South Warehouse, Greenwich Beach, Morden Wharf Road SE10 0PA (Greenwich)bbno.coFirst sold beer (at original […]

Belleville Brewing Co

Belleville Brewery, London SW12

Brewery36 Jaggard Way (taproom 44 Jaggard Way) SW12 8SG (Wandsworth)bellevillebrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: 30 March 2013

Musician Adrian Thomas was prompted to become a homebrewer when he organised a beer festival as a fundraiser for his son’s school, Belleville Primary. He took things a stage further by getting together with nine […]

Beavertown Brewery (Heineken)

Beavertown Brewery, London N17 and Enfield (London) EN3

Breweries and brewpubOriginal site: Duke’s, 33 Downham Road N1 5AA (Hackney) Second site: 4 Stour Road E3 2NT (Tower Hamlets), Tottenham site: 17 Lockwood Industrial Park, Mill Mead Road N17 9QP (Haringey)Former brewpub: Marketplace, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, 782 High Road N17 0BX (Haringey)Production site: 102 East […]

Barnet Brewery (Black Horse)

Barnet Brewery, Barnet EN5 (London).

Brewpub, no longer brewing92 Wood Street, Barnet EN5 4HYblackhorsebarnet.co.ukFirst sold beer: March 2013Ceased brewing: November 2021

This sprawling Victorian pub just outside Barnet town centre was relaunched late in 2012 by Oak Taverns, a group that runs several brewpubs outside London. The 2.5 hl brewery, in an outhouse […]

Anspach & Hobday

Anspach & Hobday, Beddington CR0 (London)(

BreweryOriginal site: 18 Druid Street SE1 2HH (Southwark)Production site: 11 Valley Point Industrial Estate, Beddington Farm Road, Croydon CR0 4WP (Sutton)anspachandhobday.comFirst sold beer: February 2014

When childhood friends and former musicians Jack Hobday and Paul Anspach won a homebrew competition, one of the judges, TV presenter and wine […]