Beer firm
lionbreweryco.com
Active since: 2021
The original Lion brewery opened beside the Thames in Lambeth in 1836. It was bought by Hoare & Co in 1924, itself taken over by Charrington in 1933, by which time the brewery was already derelict following a serious fire in 1931.
It was demolished in the late 1940s to make way for the Festival of Britain and what’s now the Southbank Centre. One of the landmark Coade Stone lions that surmounted the brewery buildings now stands by County Hall on the steps from Westminster Bridge to the Thames Path, another is at Twickenham rugby stadium.
Two British homebrewing businessmen based in Singapore, Ben Hendry-Prior and Harry Renshaw, bought the brand in 2018 and opened a brewpub in 2021. That same year they established a London base and began marketing cuckoo-brewed beers in the UK, including a lager, pale ale, IPA and nitro stout.
Unrelated to the Australasian brewing group Lion, a subsidiary of Kirin.
Beers are in keg, bottle and can.
Updated 16 December 2025.
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