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Truman’s Brewery (Watney Mann Truman)

A historic Truman label with famous black eagle trademark.

This page covers the historic brewery. For more about the 21st century revival of the brand, see Big Penny and Truman (Old Truman Brewery).

Formerly Truman, Hanbury & Buxton

Closed breweryBlack Eagle Brewery, Hanbury Street E1 6QR (Tower Hamlets)First sold beer: by 1669 (as Bucknall’s)Ceased […]

Three Sods Brewery

Three Sods Brewery, London E8

Closed breweryOriginal site: Bethnal Green Working Mens Club, 42 Pollard Row E2 6NB (Tower Hamlets)Final site: 339 Mentmore Terrace E8 3PH (Hackney)threesodsbrewery.comFirst sold beer: January 2015 (at original site)Brewing ceased: August 2022

Three business partners created this small but interesting brewery late in 2014, adopting its apparently self-deprecatory name […]

Tap East

Tap East microbrewery Stratford City, London E20.

Brewpub7 International Square, Westfield Stratford City E20 1EE (Newham)tapeast.co.ukFirst sold beer: 10 November 2011

When Westfield opened its massive Stratford City shopping mall adjoining the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in September 2011, it invited the team at Utobeer to create a brewpub for the Great Eastern Market, […]

Southwark Brewing Co

Southwark Brewing, London SE1

Brewery46 Druid Street SE1 2EZ (Southwark)southwarkbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2014

Unusually for the owner of a new London brewery, Southwark co-founder Peter Jackson is an industry veteran, with many years at Whitbread and Marston’s on his CV, including as marketing director at the latter. He created this brewery, the fifth […]

Signature Brew

Signature Brew, London E17

BreweryOriginal production site: 25 Leyton Business Centre, Etloe Road E10 7BT (Waltham Forest) Current site: 15 Uplands Business Park, Blackhorse Lane E17 5QJ (Waltham Forest)signaturebrew.co.ukFirst sold beer: January 2014 (at Leyton site)

Beer and music lovers Tom Bott and Sam McGregor, the latter also a musician, originally conceived Signature as […]

Ram Inn (Laine)

Formerly SlyBeast Brewing.

SlyBeast Brewing (Ram Inn), London SW18

Brewpub, no longer brewing68 Wandsworth High Street SW18 4LB (Wandsworth)theraminnsw18.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2019 (as SlyBeast, see also Ram Brewery under Sambrook’s)Brewing suspended: May 2022Brewing resumed: Autumn 2022 (by Coalition)Brewing ceased: January 2024

Commercial brewing returned to the historic Ram brewery in central Wandsworth in […]

Young & Co’s Brewery (Ram Brewery)

Young’s, Ram Inn, Wells, London breweries […]

Sambrook’s Brewery

Sambrook’s Brewery, London SW18

Includes information for current brewery. For more about the history of the current site, and the non-commercial Ram Brewery active 2007-21, see Young & Co’s Brewery (Ram Brewery).

BreweryOriginal site: 1 Yelverton Road SW11 3QG (Wandsworth)Current site: 1 Bellwether Lane SW18 1UD (Wandsworth)sambrooksbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2008

Disappointed by the […]

Redemption Brewing

Redemption Brewing, London N17

BreweryOriginal site: 2 Compass West Estate, West Road N17 0XL (Haringey) Current site: 16 Compass West Estate, West Road N17 0XL (Haringey) redemptionbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: February 2010

Redemption was one of the first of the current wave of new London breweries and the first in what’s now the brewing hotbed […]

Exale Brewing

Exale Brewing, London E17

Includes information for Soul Rebel Brew Co and Hale Brewing.

Brewery2C Uplands Business Park E17 5QJ (Waltham Forest)twitter.com/exalebrewingFirst sold beer: 12 December 2019 (as Exale Brewing)

Hale Brewing (Five Miles)Brewpub no longer brewing39B Markfield Road N15 4QA (Haringey)First sold beer: December 2016 (as Affinity), March 2018 (as Hale)Ceased brewing: August […]