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Watling Street Beer, London N17
Closed breweryOriginal site: Hillfield Lane, Aldenham WD25 (Hertfordshire, outside London)Second site: Unit 2A, 6 Greycaine Rd, Watford WD24 7GP (Hertfordshire, outside London)Final site: 8 Triumph Trading Estate, Tariff Road N17 0EB (Haringey)watlingstreetbeer.comFirst sold beer: January 2015 (at original site)Ceased brewing: by June 2020
As London’s brewing scene continued to […]
Oddly Beer, London N11.
Closed breweryOriginal site: 12 Platts Eyot, Hampton TW12 2HF (Richmond upon Thames)Second site: 6 Triumph Trading Estate, Tariff Road N17 0EB (Haringey)Last site: Friern Barnet N11 (Barnet)First sold beer: March 2017Ceased brewing: by early 2023
Taking his brand name from expressions such as ‘oddly delicious’, Brian Watson began cuckoo-brewing in […]
Tiny Vessel, Hampton TW12 (London)
Brewery, no visitors please505 Platts Eyot, Hampton TW12 2HF (Richmond upon Thames)tinyvessel.co.ukFirst sold beer: December 2016Brewing suspended: by November 2021Brewing resumed: March 2022
One of London’s most unusually located breweries as well as one of its smallest, Tiny Vessel is in a small workshop on Platts Eyot, a privately-owned […]
Wrong Side of the Tracks Beer, London SE6
Closed breweryHither Green SE6 (Lewisham)wrongsideofthetracks.beerFirst sold beer: 8 August 2019Ceased brewing: by end 2021
Daniel Jackson was a frustrated IT professional and homebrewer who began working commercially on a part-time basis using a small scale using a 1 hl kit in a garage on the edge […]
Affinity Brew Co, London SW9
Suspended brewpubOriginal site: Five Miles, 39B Markfield Road N15 4QA (Haringey)Second site: 7 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)Most recent site: Grosvenor Arms, 17 Sidney Road SW9 0TP (Lambeth)First sold beer: 10 December 2016 (at original site)Brewing suspended: by March 2024
Founded by Steve Grae, ex-Brew by Numbers, and Ben […]
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, London N18
Closed breweryOriginal site: 6 Georgiou Business Park, Second Avenue N18 2PG (Enfield)Final site: 2A-4 Uplands Business Park, Blackhorse Lane E17 5QJ (Waltham Forest)beerblefish.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2016 (at original site)Ceased brewing: January 2025
Homebrewer James Atherton first brewed commercially as Beerblefish at UBREW late in 2015, but quickly decided […]
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 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 […]
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