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Coalition Brewing

This beer firm merged with Signal Brewery in May 2025, so information about it has been moved to the Signal page.

Updated 1 September 2025.

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Cellar Boys Brewery (White Hart)

Cellar Boys, London SE14

Closed brewpub and beer firm184 New Cross Road SE14 5AA (Lewisham)First sold beer: March 2017Ceased brewing: around July 2018, active as a cuckoo until 2020.

Paddy and Joseph Ryan began this brewery in 2017 with a 50 l Braumeister kit in the cellar of their pub, the White Hart in […]

Br3wery

Br3wery, Beckenham BR3 (London)

BreweryOriginal site: Mackenzie Road, Beckenham BR3 4RY (Bromley)Second site: 253 Beckenham Road, Beckenham BR3 4RP (Bromley)Current site (only open for special events): 2A Birkbeck Road, Beckenham BR3 4SNbr3wery.comFirst sold beer: February 2019 (at original site)

Cadú Gomes began brewing commercially on a small scale using a home-based kit early in […]

Bloomsbury Drinks Company

Beer firmbloomsburyleisuregroup.comActive since: 2018Closed: Mid-2022

Bloomsbury was a brand used for exclusive beers commissioned for the Bloomsbury Leisure Group, which owns the Euston Tap and its sister pubs. The beers originated at a variety of breweries in the UK and elsewhere, including Five Points.

The name was previously used for an unrelated brewery at […]

London breweries 2018

24 openings and revivals, 7 closures and suspensions, net change +17.

By the end of 2018, there were 125 commercial breweries operating in London, including 32 brewpubs. Seven were parts of multinationals (M). These breweries were:

40FT Brewery E8, Hackney Affinity Brew Co SE16, Southwark Alphabeta Brewery (Pitt Cue) EC2, City of London, brewpub […]

Kentish Town Brewery

Kentish Town Brewery, London NW5

Brewery not currently brewing, no visitors pleaseKentish Town NW5 1UF (Camden)kentishtownbrewery.comFirst sold beer: October 2017Brewing suspended: by October 2019

This small home-based brewery was placed on hold in late 2019 while brewer Mark Drayton made a trip to Australia for family reasons. He expected to return and resume brewing […]

Fearless Nomad Brewing (Black Dog)

Fearless Nomad Brewing, Brentford (London) TW8

Brewpub17 Albany Road, Brentford TW8 0NF (Hounslow)blackdogbeerhouse.co.ukFirst sold beer: 18 January 2020Brewing suspended: by June 2023Brewing revived: January 2025

After many years setting up and operating beer-friendly pubs for other companies, Ash Zobell and brothers Pete and James Brew refurbished and reopened this pub in a Brentford backstreet […]

Up the Creek Brewery (Greenwich Brewery)

Up the Creek Brewery, London SE10

Brewpub, brewing currently suspended302 Creek Road SE10 9SW (Greenwich)up-the-creek.comFirst sold beer: 31 October 2018Brewing suspended: by December 2024

Perhaps not the most obvious place you’d expect to find an in-house brewery, Greenwich institution Up the Creek is a comedy club in a former church hall founded by the […]

Gravity Well Brewing Co

Gravity Well Brewing Co, London N17.

BreweryOriginal site: 142 Tilbury Road E10 6RE (Waltham Forest)Current production site: 1 Compass West Estate, 33 West Road N17 0XL (Haringey)gravitywellbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: September 2018 (at original site)

Founder Ben Duck had already given up his career as a financial lawyer before deciding to turn the appealing mix […]

Queen’s Head Shoreditch

Formerly Goose Island Brewpub Shoreditch.

Queen’s Head Shoreditch, London E1

Former brewpub221 Shoreditch High Street E1 6PJ (Hackney)queensheadshoreditch.comFirst sold beer: 21 November 2018Ceased brewing: September 2022, brewhouse removed by November 2023

Chicago brewery Goose Island, founded in 1988 and part of AB InBev since 2011, established its first London home, the Vintage Ale House, […]