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Bianca Road Brew Co, London SE16
BreweryOriginal site: Unit 1, 95 Haymerle Road SE15 6SJ (Southwark) Second site: 19 Pages Walk SE1 4SB (Southwark) Current site: 83 Enid Street SE16 3RA (Southwark)biancaroad.comFirst sold beer: 21 May 2016 (at original site)
Engineer Reece Wood decided to start his own brewery after completing an epic cycling […]
Ignition Brewery, London SE26
Brewery44A Sydenham Road SE26 5QF (Lewisham)ignition.beerFirst sold beer: 30 May 2017
Not just a brewery, this is a social enterprise employing and training people with learning disabilities, founded by economist Nick O’Shea, who has also been heavily involved with human rights charity Liberty.
Beers were brewed at UBREW from […]
Battersea Brewery, London SW11
Battersea Brewery BatterseaBrewpub12 Arches Lane, Battersea Power Station SW11 8AB (Wandsworth)batterseabrew.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2018
Battersea Substation BermondseyBrewery, taproom8 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)batterseabrew.co.ukFirst sold beer: 23 June 2018 (as Partizan), August 2023 (as Battersea)
Battersea Brewery, London SW11
One of London’s smarter railway arch breweries, this original Battersea brewpub […]
Signal Brewery, Beddington CR0 (London)
Brewery8 Stirling Way, Beddington Farm Road, Croydon CR0 4XN (Sutton)signallager.comcoalitionbrewing.co.ukFirst 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 […]
Formerly Small Beer Brewing Company.
Concrete Island Brewery, London W12
Brewery, no visitors pleaseWood Lane W12 (Hammersmith & Fulham)concreteislandbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: September 2017 (as Small Beer)
Located near the Westway, this is one of London’s very smallest commercial breweries. It’s run by Steve Smith, an award-winning London Amateur Brewers member who works on a […]
Small Beer Brew Co, London SE16
Brewery70 Verney Road SE16 3DH (Southwark)theoriginalsmallbeer.comFirst sold beer: November 2017
In the 17th century, small beer was the lowest-strength product of a brewery, consumed daily by people of all ages in preference to water. It was usually made by sparging (rinsing) the mash a final time after the […]
Spartan Brewery, London SE16
Beer firm, former and planned future breweryspartanbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 23 June 2018Brewing suspended: 17 June 2023
Software engineer Colin Brooks and financial risk analyst Mike Willetts homebrewed together for over five years before making their first commercial beers under the Spartan brand as cuckoos at now-closed shared Bermondsey brewery UBREW […]
St Mary’s Brewery, London NW3
Brewery, no visitors pleaseSt Mary’s Church, Elsworthy Road NW3 3DJ (Camden)stmarysbrewery.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2017Brewing suspended: July 2022Brewing resumed: October 2024
Stephen Reynolds, church warden at St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, started this brewery as a way of raising money for the church’s youth work. The first beer, […]
Anomaly Brewing, New Malden (London)
Brewery, no visitors pleaseNew Malden KT3 5RU (Kingston upon Thames)anomalybrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: October 2018
Graphic designer Adam Sutton began homebrewing in 2017 and became a part-time professional a little over a year later, working on a small 1.5 hl direct-fired kit in a converted garage at his New Malden […]
Two Tribes, London N7
BreweryOriginal site: 3 Jubilee Estate, Horsham RH13 5UE (West Sussex , outside London)Current site: 4 Tileyard Studios, Tileyard Road N7 9AH (Islington)(Taproom at Campfire, Tileyard Studios)twotribes.co.ukFirst sold beer: 2000 (as W J King in Horsham), 4 April 2018 (as Two Tribes at London site)
Interestingly, this unashamedly modern brewery and […]
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