Brewery
8 Stirling Way, Beddington Farm Road, Croydon CR0 4XN (Sutton)
signallager.com
First sold beer: January 2016
The roots of Signal go back to the day when South African-born chemical engineer Murray Roos’s children claimed the garden shed, previously home to his homebrewing setup, as a play space, and his wife told him this was his signal to find commercial premises. He teamed up with a fellow parent at his children’s school, Charlie Luckin, who had a background in wine and hospitality, and the pair set up on a Beddington industrial estate a few steps from Therapia Lane tram stop, just in Sutton but with a Croydon postcode.
The original 12 hl brewhouse, still in use, was supplied by PBC, while the brewery has since added several extra fermenters and a canning line. The original intention was to specialise in craft lagers but, interestingly, these were soon supplemented by ale styles and, from 2018, cask:.
A taproom at the brewery, open monthly, could make a good combined visit with Anspach & Hobday, who moved in across the yard in 2020. There’s been a Signal bar at the O2 (Peninsula Square SE10 0DX) since July 2017, originally in the Garden on the ground floor. Following the lifting of the 2021 lockdowns, this has moved to a bigger space on the first floor, known as Cloud Nine.
Beers are in keg, cask and can, with some contract bottling at SEB, and all at session strength.
Updated 15 December 2021.
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