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Libertalia Brewing Co, London E10
Brewery142 Tilbury Road, London E10 6RE (Waltham Forest)instagram.com/libertaliabrewingcoFirst sold beer: November 2023
Christos Daskalopoulos and Matt Dean met when they were both working at an Athens brewpub. Matt later went to Meantime but ended up working alongside Christos again when Greek brewery 56 Isles set up 3 Locks as […]
Blondies Brewery, London E10
Beer firm, planned brewpubPatchworks, 258 Church Road, London E10 7JQ (Waltham Forest)blondiesbar.co.ukFirst sold beer: July 2024
Blondies is a popular Clapton bar and music venue opened by sisters Sharmaine and Verity Cox in 2016. The sisters always planned to add their own brewery but struggled to find a site: plans […]
The nanobrewery at BBNo, Bermondsey, April 2022.
9 openings and revivals, 19 suspensions and closures, net change -10.
By the end of December 2022, there were 122 commercial breweries operating in London, including 27 brewpubs. 11 were parts of multinationals (M). Those breweries were:
3 Locks Brewing Company NW1, Camden NEW! 40FT Brewery E8, Hackney […]
Lucky Saint, London W1.
Beer firmAlso known as Not Another Beer Co.58 Devonshire Street, London W1W 5EAluckysaint.coActive since: October 2018
Founded by Luke Boase, London-based Lucky Saint commissions a much-admired and widely available unfiltered alcohol-free pale lager to its own recipe. The beer is made at a historic Bavarian brewery in accordance with the […]
BrewpubBrewery: 15 Whitburn Road SE13 7UQ (Lewisham)Pub: 316 Lewisham High Street SE13 6JZfoxfirkin.comFirst sold beer: October 2023
Firkin Brewery, London SE13
This busy music pub became a brewpub towards the end of 2023, with a facility known as the Firkin brewery added in a former Sainsbury’s depot at the back. The project was the […]
Also known as Hawley Wharf Brewing Company.
3 Locks Brewing Company, London NW1
BreweryArch N4 Dockray Place NW1 8QD (Camden)3locksbeer.comFirst sold beer: November 2022
Founded by Marinos Alexandrou of the 56 Isle brewery in Paros, Greece, this enterprise occupies several arches under two branches of the Overground, with a taproom and shop located in […]
Great Beyond Brewing Co, London E2
Brewpub417 Union Walk E2 8HP (Hackney)greatbeyond.beerFirst sold beer: 4 November 2022
This arch-based brewery under Hoxton station was founded by ex-Fourpure brewers John Driebergen (who has been brewing in London since 2011, initially with Meantime) and Ollie Parker.
It occupies three adjacent arches under the Overground at Hoxton, […]
18 gallon (82 l) casks of Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby in the cellar of the Beacon Hotel, Sedgley, Dudley.
Cask beer is a unique format of live draught beer that, at its best and freshest, delivers a subtlety and complexity of flavour in session beers of modest strength unmatchable in any other way. Rarely […]
4 openings or revivals, 4 closures, net change 0.
By the end of 2000, there were 16 commercial breweries operating in London, including eight brewpubs. 2 were part of national groups (N), 2 part of multinationals (M). These breweries were:
Anheuser-Busch UK (Stag, Anheuser-Busch, leased from Scottish Courage M) SW14, Richmond upon Thames Freedom […]
The Firkin Brewery (Bruce’s Brewery), London
This page covers the original Firkin chain active in the late 20th century. For information on the more recent revival of brewing at the Fox and Firkin, see Firkin Brewery (Fox and Firkin Lewisham).
Brewpubs closed or no longer brewing
Goose and Firkin (Duke of York), 47 Borough […]
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