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"A necessity if you're a beer geek travelling to London town" - Beer Advocate
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"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Hoppy Collie brewery, London
Closed brewery106 Fulham Palace Road W6 9PL (Hammersmith & Fulham)First sold beer: March 2013Ceased brewing: by end 2013
Californian expat homebrewer Travis Mooney installed a 2 hl kit in a basement under Hammersmith’s Symposio restaurant (now Kenta) during 2012, and after a few pilot runs, began selling US-influenced beers in […]
Florence, London SE24
Also known at various times as Craft Academy and A Head in a Hat.
Brewpub no longer brewing133 Dulwich Road SE24 0NG (Lambeth)florencehernehill.comFirst sold beer: September 2007Ceased brewing: by end 2018
Also:Cock and Hen (now known as the Cock Tavern)Brewpub no longer brewing360 North End Road SW6 1LY (Hammersmith & Fulham)First sold […]
Earl of Essex, London N1, former home to Earls Brewery
Brewpub no longer brewing25 Danbury Street N1 8LE (Islington)First sold beer: April 2013Ceased brewing: December 2014
Beer-friendly independent chain Barworks reopened Islington’s Earl of Essex pub in July 2012 as part of its craft-focused Grace Land group, and added an 8 hl brewhouse the […]
Brüpond Brewery
Closed brewery4 Leyton Studios, 15 Argall Avenue E10 7QE (Waltham Forest)First sold beer: November 2012Ceased brewing: October 2013
A crowdfunded business that raised £15,000 online in 15 days, Brüpond produced keg and bottled beers aimed at “beer adventurers” from a 10 hl kit on a Leyton industrial estate. Brewer and founder David […]
Brew Wharf, London SE1, one of the cradles of London’s brewing revival, since redeveloped.
Closed brewpubBrew Wharf Yard, Stoney Street SE1 9AD (Southwark)First sold beer: September 2005Ceased brewing: May 2014
An upmarket brewpub under railway arches by Borough Market, Brew Wharf became one of the early pioneers of the current resurgence in London brewing. […]
AlphaBeta Brewery
Closed brewpub1 Devonshire Square EC2M 4YP (City of London)First sold beer: March 2016Ceased brewing: June 2019
Barbecue restaurant PittCue began as a sandwich stand under the Hammersmith Flyover, expanding to a small Soho restaurant and then to a much bigger site in pretty Devonshire Square in 2016. The new site included a […]
Closed breweryOriginal site: 29 Cheshire Gardens, Chessington KT9 2PR (Kingston upon Thames)Final site: Woodstock Avenue, Sutton SM3 9EF (Sutton)First sold beer: June 2012Ceased brewing: early 2014
Founded by homebrewers Ben Owen and Alex Wilson with a 4 hl kit, this brewery launched a range of interesting bottled beers partly inspired by historic recipes in […]
A once-familiar bar mount for Watney’s notorious keg bitter Red Barrel.
This page covers the now-closed Stag Brewery at Mortlake as well as the also-defunct original Stag Brewery at Pimlico. For the more recent attempted revival of the Watney brand see Watneys Beer.
Formerly Watney Mann Truman (Grand Metropolitan), Watney Mann, Watney Combe Reid […]
Brewhouse at the Botanist, Richmond TW9, since moved twice and now at Ignition Brewing.
For historical interest, this is a list of commercial breweries which have operated in London in recent years but have since closed, suspended brewing activities for a significant length of time, switched to brewing on other people’s equipment or relocated […]
Old Street Brewery, London E2
Includes information for Queens Head brewpub.
Closed brewery, former brewpubOriginal site: Queens Head, 66 Acton Street WC1X 9NB (Camden)Second site: 11 Gales Gardens E2 0EJ (Tower Hamlets)Current site: 1 Queens Yard, White Post Lane E9 5EN (Tower Hamlets)oldstreet.beerFirst sold beer: January 2015 (as Queens Head), March 2018 (as Old […]
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