Brewpub
Original site: Ealing Park Tavern, 222 South Ealing Road W5 4RL (Ealing)
Current site: 20 Worship Street EC2A 2DX (Islington)
longarmpub.co.uk
First sold beer: March 2015 (at original site)
The brewing arm of the ETM pub group, owned by brothers Ed and Tim Martin, began operations in 2015 with a 10 hl brewhouse from Oban Ales in a former hay store at the Ealing Park Tavern, a location that had seen brewing before but not since the 1850s. Original head brewer Vladimir Schmidt, although from the Czech Republic, was a fan of traditional English styles and the brewery initially focused on cask beers for the pub and others in the group, though some keg and hand-bottling later took place.
In July 2017, the company opened a second more central brewpub in Shoreditch, with a smaller but more sophisticated 5 hl kit and a tightly packed parade of fermentation vessels in a corner of the Montcalm Royal London House hotel.
The original Ealing site was decommissioned by the end of the year and the equipment sold to Affinity: it’s still used by Three Hills. ETM sold the pub lease back to the freeholder in February 2020: the site is currrently closed and awaiting redevelopment.
Cask has been discontinued; beers are sold from tank in the bar and from keg at other outlets in the group. The Long Arm lager is currently outsourced.
Updated 14 December 2021.
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