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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
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Ind Coope (Allied Lyons)

Also known as Romford Brewing Co.

Includes information for Taylor Walker.

Ind Coope 1970s beermat.

Closed breweryStar Brewery, 19 High Street, Romford RM1 1JU (Havering)First sold beer: 1708Ceased brewing: 1993

Closed breweryBarley Mow Brewery, Newell Street E14 8HZ (Tower Hamlets)First sold beer: c1735Ceased brewing: 1960

Romford was a rural Essex market town in 1708 when […]

Courage Brewery

Includes information for Barclay Perkins

Courage Brewery, London SE1

Courage BreweryClosed breweryAnchor Brewhouse, Horseleydown SE1 2LY (Southwark)First sold beer: 16th century (under an unknown name)Brewing ceased: 1981

Barclay Perkins & CoClosed breweryAnchor Brewery, Park Street SE1 9EQ (Southwark)First sold beer: 1616 (as Monger’s Brewery)Brewing ceased: by 1963

The Anchor Brewhouse stood on the south bank […]

Charrington Brewery (Bass Charrington)

A classic Charrington Toby jug, originally used as a logo by the even more historic Red Lion brewery.

Closed brewery129 Mile End Road E1 4BG (Tower Hamlets)First sold beer: Prior to 1757Brewing ceased: 1975

Robert Westfield entered the brewing industry as an employee in 1738, and by 1757 had set up his own brewery […]

Old London Bridge Brewery

Market Porter, London SE1Photo: CAMRA

Also known at various times as Beach’s Ales, Bishop’s Brewery and Market Brewery (Market Porter).

Brewpub no longer brewingMarket Porter, 9 Stoney Street SE1 9AA (Southwark)First sold beer: December 1981 (as Market Brewery)Brewing suspended: 1984Brewing resumed: May 1985Ceased brewing: 1988

Closed brewery2 Park Street SE1 9AD (Southwark)First sold beer: […]

Original Brewing Co (Hollywood Bowl, Bass)

Hollywood Bowl, London N12 and SE16

Brewpubs closed or no longer brewingHollywood Bowl Finchley, Leisure Way, High Road N12 0GL (Barnet)First sold beer: 1996

Hollywood Bowl Surrey Quays, Surrey Quays Leisure Park, Surrey Quays Road SE16 7LW (Southwark)First sold beer: 1998

Both ceased brewing: 2000

Both these breweries were the result of a short-lived […]

O’Hanlon’s Brewery

O’Hanlon’s Port Stout

Brewery moved outside London114 Randall Road SE11 5JR (Lambeth)hanlonsbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 1996Moved outside London: 2000

John O’Hanlon, originally from Kerry, Ireland, and his wife Liz bought a small Grade II-listed ex-Whitbread pub in Clerkenwell, the Three Crowns (8 Tysoe Street EC1R 4RQ), in 1995. They renamed it O’Hanlon’s and it quickly […]

Tankleys Brewery

Tankleys Brewery, Sidcup DA15 (London)

Brewery, no visitors pleaseSidcup DA15 (Bexley)tankleysbrewery.comActive since: November 2015First sold beer: May 2024Ceased brewing: January 2025

Australian-born homebrewer Glenn Heinzel first brewed commercially under the name Tankleys (an obscure family pun) at UBREW late in 2015. A year later, fellow UBREW users Beerblefish began brewing in their own right […]

Hopewell Brewery (Lockdown Room)

Hopewell Brewery, London E17

BrewpubHopewell Square, London E14 0SY (Tower Hamlets)thelockdownroom.comFirst sold beer: March 2024

As the name Lockdown Room suggests, this popular bar-restaurant and event venue on London City Island, a recent development in a horseshoe meander of the river Lea near Canning Town, evolved from an initiative to supply the community during […]

London breweries 2023

5 openings and revivals, 20 suspensions and closures, net change -15.

By the end of December 2023, there were 107 commercial breweries operating in London, including 25 brewpubs. 10 were parts of multinationals (M). Those breweries were:

3 Locks Brewing Company NW1, Camden 40FT Brewery E8, Hackney Affinity Brew Co (Grosvenor Arms) SW9, Lambeth, brewpub Anomaly […]

Big Drop Brewing Co

Big Drop, London.

Beer firm, now brewing outside Londonbigdropbrew.comActive since: October 2016Brewing transferred outside London: September 2024

Former lawyer Rob Fink and designer James Kindred launched Big Drop as a specialist brewer of beers of 0.5% ABV and less after Rob noticed a gap in the market when he gave up drinking for an […]