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Streatham Brewery (Railway)

Brewpub no longer brewing2 Greyhound Lane SW16 5SD (Lambeth)First sold beer: October 2016Ceased brewing: early 2018

This small brewery occupied an outhouse adjacent to the Railway pub by Streatham Common station, though was owned and managed separately from the pub. It made bottled beer for sale in the pub and other local outlets.

Updated […]

Prince

Contains information for House Brewing.

Brewpub no longer brewing1 Finsbury Road N22 8PA (Haringey)theprincen22.co.ukFirst brewed beer: September 2017 (as House Brewing)Ceased brewing: by September 2019 (as The Goodness)

This Wood Green pub was equipped with a brewhouse in a side room soon after it reopened in 2017. Initially it operated under the name House, […]

Hill Brothers Brewery

Closed breweryCamden Town NW1 (Camden)First sold beer: August 2017Ceased brewing: by June 2018

This home-based brewery sold beer locally to its Camden Town base for around a year between 2017-18.

Updated 23 January 2020

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Brewery Below (Borough Wines)

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

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

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 Brewery (White Hart)

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

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 […]

Bloomsbury Drinks Company

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 […]

London breweries 2018

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 […]