Includes information for Ealing Brewing.
Brewpub
106 Northfield Avenue W13 9RT (Ealing)
markopaulo.co.uk
First sold beer: 2 December 2016
Brewing suspended: September 2021
Brewing resumed: June 2023
Closed production brewery
Ealing Brewing
Brewery
4 The Ham, Brentford TW8 8HE (Hounslow)
First sold beer: 2 November 2019
Ceased brewing: June 2023
The Owl and the Pussycat opened in December 2016 as the first London micropub north of the river and the UK’s first only micro-brewpub. The custom-built 2 hl brewery, named Marko Paulo after the two ex-teachers who founded it, Paul Nock and head brewer Mark Yarnell, was neatly wedged into a small room at the back.
Despite its size, its success far exceeded expectations, and in 2019 the operation expanded to an industrial unit in Brentford under the name Ealing Brewing. This was equipped with a 6 hl kit and four fermentation tanks formerly at the Gene Pool brewery in Hull, alongside a 40 l pilot kit, with a taproom added in November.
The Owl and the Pussycat continued brewing for a while, producing small runs of specials, but following the challenges of the Covid-19 lockdowns, all production moved to the Brentford site by September 2021. The original site continued as a micropub with a wide range of the beers available.
Following the taproom closure in June 2022, there were rumours that the Ealing brewery had closed, and though these turned out to be premature, by June 2023 the Brentford site had been sold and brewing revived on a small scale at the Owl and Pussycat under the original Marko Paulo name.
Beers are in cask, keg, bottle and minikeg.
Updated 4 Septmber 2023.
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