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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)Last site: 1 Queens Yard, White Post Lane E9 5EN (Tower Hamlets)First sold beer: January 2015 (as Queens Head), March 2018 (as Old […]
Pressure Drop brewery, London N17.
BreweryOriginal site: 5B Wilmer Business Park, Wilmer Place N16 0LW (Hackney)Second site: 19 Bohemia Place E8 1DU (Hackney)Current site: 6 Lockwood Industrial Park, Mill Mead Road N17 9QP (Haringey)pressuredropbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: 12 January 2013
Former Euston Tap cellarman Graham O’Brien and Sam Smith (no relation to the famous Yorkshire […]
°Plato Brewing, London E8
Closed brewery23 Westgate Street E8 3RL (Hackney)First sold beer: September 2014Ceased brewing: July 2016
This brewing supplies stall run by Canadian-born Adam Khedheri at Netil Market near London Fields also sold own-brewed beers created on a 1.2 hl homebrewing kit in a tiny unit constructed of recycled containers, mainly for […]
Partizan Brewing, London SE16.
Brewery, no longer in LondonOriginal site: 8 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)Second site: 34 Raymouth Road SE16 2DB (Southwark)partizanbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2012Ceased brewing in London: 10 March 2023
Former chef, White Horse Parsons Green cellarman and Redemption brewer Andy Smith had the opportunity to create his own brewery when […]
The Park Brewery, Kingston upon Thames (London) KT1
BreweryOriginal site: 95 Elm Road, Kingston upon Thames KT2 6HX (Kingston upon Thames)Current site: 7 Hampden Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 3LG (Kingston upon Thames)theparkbrewery.comFirst sold beer: March 2014
Originally, the Park Brewery was a very small 1.5 hl operation in Kingston started by husband and […]
Orbit Beers, London SE17
Brewery225 Fielding Street SE17 3HD (Southwark)(Taproom at 233 Fielding Street SE17 3HJ)orbitbeers.comFirst sold beer: August 2014
Robert Middleton worked in occupational pensions until deciding to take a career break travelling round his native Scotland visiting breweries, resulting in a book, The Tea Leaf Paradox: Discovering Beer in the Land of […]
Formerly One Mile End, Mulligans.
OME Beer, London N17
Closed brewery, former brewpubOriginal site: White Hart, 1 Mile End Road E1 4TP (Tower Hamlets)Second site: 2 Compass West Estate, West Road N17 0XL (Haringey)First sold beer: June 2013 (at original site as Mulligans; second site first sold beer as Redemption February 2010)Ceased brewing: January […]
Monkey Chews Brewery, London SE15. Pic: South East London CAMRA.
Closed brewpubMontague Arms, 289 Queens Road SE15 2PAFirst sold beer: June 2015Ceased brewing: by end 2015
The landmark Montague Arms, a big roadside pub between New Cross and Peckham which was once renowned as a music venue, was rescued from potential closure in 2014. Brewing […]
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