Brewery
Horsenden Farm, Horsenden Lane North, Greenford UB6 7PQ (Ealing)
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First sold beer: December 2018
Nestling under Horsenden Hill, a rural oasis managed as a public green space amid deep west London suburbia, Perivale is London’s only farm brewery. It operates from the curtailage of a Victorian farmhouse in an idyllic setting complete with a verdant herb garden draped with hops.
Lead brewer Mike Siddell, who founded it with two friends, is a homebrewer, former London Fields team member and violinist with rock band the Leisure Society. Living on a boat at Southall, a little way east along the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, he was alerted to a vacant space at the farm by a volunteer with the local park Friends group.
The brewery’s original home was a pair of tiny units, little bigger than cupboards, that had previously been occupied by a woodworker. Mike installed the initial 1.2 hl kit from Italian supplier Polsinelli himself. During summer 2021, operations exapnded to a larger shed on another side of the farmyard, equipped with a 4.5 hl kit.
The brewery is open at least monthly for ‘tap days’ and other events at the site.
Beers are filled into keykeg and hand-bottled, and usually only available at the brewery.
Updated 15 December 2021.
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