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Kentish Town Brewery, London NW5
Brewery not currently brewing, no visitors pleaseKentish Town NW5 1UF (Camden)kentishtownbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2017Brewing suspended: by October 2019
This small home-based brewery was placed on hold in late 2019 while brewer Mark Drayton made a trip to Australia for family reasons. He expected to return and resume brewing […]
Fearless Nomad Brewing, Brentford (London) TW8
Brewpub not currently brewing17 Albany Road, Brentford TW8 0NF (Hounslow)blackdogbeerhouse.co.ukFirst sold beer: 18 January 2020Brewing suspended: by June 2023
After many years setting up and operating beer-friendly pubs for other companies, Ash Zobell and brothers Pete and James Brew refurbished and reopened this pub in a Brentford backstreet […]
Up the Creek Brewery, London SE10
Brewpub302 Creek Road SE10 9SW (Greenwich)up-the-creek.comFirst sold beer: 31 October 2018
Perhaps not the most obvious place you’d expect to find an in-house brewery, Greenwich institution Up the Creek is a comedy club in a former church hall founded by the late comedian Malcolm Hardee in 1991. But […]
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 […]
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