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Hoppy Collie brewery, London
Closed brewery106 Fulham Palace Road W6 9PL (Hammersmith & Fulham)First sold beer: March 2013Ceased brewing: by end 2013
Californian expat homebrewer Travis Mooney installed a 2 hl kit in a basement under Hammersmith’s Symposio restaurant (now Kenta) during 2012, and after a few pilot runs, began selling US-influenced beers in […]
Florence, London SE24
Also known at various times as Craft Academy and A Head in a Hat.
Brewpub no longer brewing133 Dulwich Road SE24 0NG (Lambeth)florencehernehill.comFirst sold beer: September 2007Ceased brewing: by end 2018
Also:Cock and Hen (now known as the Cock Tavern)Brewpub no longer brewing360 North End Road SW6 1LY (Hammersmith & Fulham)First sold […]
Earl of Essex, London N1, former home to Earls Brewery
Brewpub no longer brewing25 Danbury Street N1 8LE (Islington)First sold beer: April 2013Ceased brewing: December 2014
Beer-friendly independent chain Barworks reopened Islington’s Earl of Essex pub in July 2012 as part of its craft-focused Grace Land group, and added an 8 hl brewhouse the […]
Brüpond Brewery
Closed brewery4 Leyton Studios, 15 Argall Avenue E10 7QE (Waltham Forest)First sold beer: November 2012Ceased brewing: October 2013
A crowdfunded business that raised £15,000 online in 15 days, Brüpond produced keg and bottled beers aimed at “beer adventurers” from a 10 hl kit on a Leyton industrial estate. Brewer and founder David […]
Old Street Brewery, London E2
Includes information for Queens Head brewpub.
Closed brewery, former brewpubOriginal site: Queens Head, 66 Acton Street WC1X 9NB (Camden)Second site: 11 Gales Gardens E2 0EJ (Tower Hamlets)Last site: 1 Queens Yard, White Post Lane E9 5EN (Tower Hamlets)First sold beer: January 2015 (as Queens Head), March 2018 (as Old […]
Pressure Drop brewery, London N17.
BreweryOriginal site: 5B Wilmer Business Park, Wilmer Place N16 0LW (Hackney)Second site: 19 Bohemia Place E8 1DU (Hackney)Current site: 6 Lockwood Industrial Park, Mill Mead Road N17 9QP (Haringey)pressuredropbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: 12 January 2013
Former Euston Tap cellarman Graham O’Brien and Sam Smith (no relation to the famous Yorkshire […]
Partizan Brewing, London SE16.
Brewery, no longer in LondonOriginal site: 8 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)Second site: 34 Raymouth Road SE16 2DB (Southwark)partizanbrewing.co.ukFirst sold beer: November 2012Ceased brewing in London: 10 March 2023
Former chef, White Horse Parsons Green cellarman and Redemption brewer Andy Smith had the opportunity to create his own brewery when […]
The Park Brewery, Kingston upon Thames (London) KT1
BreweryOriginal site: 95 Elm Road, Kingston upon Thames KT2 6HX (Kingston upon Thames)Current site: 7 Hampden Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 3LG (Kingston upon Thames)theparkbrewery.comFirst sold beer: March 2014
Originally, the Park Brewery was a very small 1.5 hl operation in Kingston started by husband and […]
Orbit Beers, London SE17
Brewery225 Fielding Street SE17 3HD (Southwark)(Taproom at 233 Fielding Street SE17 3HJ)orbitbeers.comFirst sold beer: August 2014
Robert Middleton worked in occupational pensions until deciding to take a career break travelling round his native Scotland visiting breweries, resulting in a book, The Tea Leaf Paradox: Discovering Beer in the Land of […]
Formerly One Mile End, Mulligans.
OME Beer, London N17
Closed brewery, former brewpubOriginal site: White Hart, 1 Mile End Road E1 4TP (Tower Hamlets)Second site: 2 Compass West Estate, West Road N17 0XL (Haringey)First sold beer: June 2013 (at original site as Mulligans; second site first sold beer as Redemption February 2010)Ceased brewing: January […]
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