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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
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"A necessity if you're a beer geek travelling to London town" - Beer Advocate
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"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
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Old London Bridge Brewery

Market Porter, London SE1Photo: CAMRA

Also known at various times as Beach’s Ales, Bishop’s Brewery and Market Brewery (Market Porter).

Brewpub no longer brewingMarket Porter, 9 Stoney Street SE1 9AA (Southwark)First sold beer: December 1981 (as Market Brewery)Brewing suspended: 1984Brewing resumed: May 1985Ceased brewing: 1988

Closed brewery2 Park Street SE1 9AD (Southwark)First sold beer: […]

Original Brewing Co (Hollywood Bowl, Bass)

Hollywood Bowl, London N12 and SE16

Brewpubs closed or no longer brewingHollywood Bowl Finchley, Leisure Way, High Road N12 0GL (Barnet)First sold beer: 1996

Hollywood Bowl Surrey Quays, Surrey Quays Leisure Park, Surrey Quays Road SE16 7LW (Southwark)First sold beer: 1998

Both ceased brewing: 2000

Both these breweries were the result of a short-lived […]

O’Hanlon’s Brewery

O’Hanlon’s Port Stout

Brewery moved outside London114 Randall Road SE11 5JR (Lambeth)hanlonsbrewery.comFirst sold beer: 1996Moved outside London: 2000

John O’Hanlon, originally from Kerry, Ireland, and his wife Liz bought a small Grade II-listed ex-Whitbread pub in Clerkenwell, the Three Crowns (8 Tysoe Street EC1R 4RQ), in 1995. They renamed it O’Hanlon’s and it quickly […]

Tankleys Brewery

Tankleys Brewery, Sidcup DA15 (London)

Brewery, no visitors pleaseSidcup DA15 (Bexley)tankleysbrewery.comActive since: November 2015First sold beer: May 2024

Australian-born homebrewer Glenn Heinzel first brewed commercially under the name Tankleys (an obscure family pun) at UBREW late in 2015. A year later, fellow UBREW users Beerblefish began brewing in their own right on a larger […]

Hopewell Brewery (Lockdown Room)

Lockdown Room, London E14

BrewpubHopewell Square, London E14 0SY (Tower Hamlets)thelockdownroom.comFirst sold beer: March 2024

As the name Lockdown Room suggests, this popular bar-restaurant and event venue on London City Island, a recent development in a horseshoe meander of the river Lea near Canning Town, evolved from an initiative to supply the community during […]

London breweries 2023

5 openings and revivals, 20 suspensions and closures, net change -15.

By the end of December 2023, there were 107 commercial breweries operating in London, including 25 brewpubs. 10 were parts of multinationals (M). Those breweries were:

3 Locks Brewing Company NW1, Camden 40FT Brewery E8, Hackney Affinity Brew Co (Grosvenor Arms) SW9, Lambeth, brewpub Anomaly […]

Big Drop Brewing Co

Big Drop, London.

Beer firm, now brewing outside Londonbigdropbrew.comActive since: October 2016Brewing transferred outside London: September 2024

Former lawyer Rob Fink and designer James Kindred launched Big Drop as a specialist brewer of beers of 0.5% ABV and less after Rob noticed a gap in the market when he gave up drinking for an […]

Blondies Brewery

Blondies Brewery, London E10

Beer firm, planned brewpubPatchworks, 258 Church Road, London E10 7JQ (Waltham Forest)blondiesbar.co.ukFirst sold beer: July 2024

Blondies is a popular Clapton bar and music venue opened by sisters Sharmaine and Verity Cox in 2016. The sisters always planned to add their own brewery but struggled to find a site: plans […]

London breweries 2022

The nanobrewery at BBNo, Bermondsey, April 2022.

9 openings and revivals, 19 suspensions and closures, net change -10.

By the end of December 2022, there were 122 commercial breweries operating in London, including 27 brewpubs. 11 were parts of multinationals (M). Those breweries were:

3 Locks Brewing Company NW1, Camden NEW! 40FT Brewery E8, Hackney […]

Lucky Saint

Lucky Saint, London W1.

Beer firmAlso known as Not Another Beer Co.58 Devonshire Street, London W1W 5EAluckysaint.coActive since: October 2018

Founded by Luke Boase, London-based Lucky Saint commissions a much-admired and widely available unfiltered alcohol-free pale lager to its own recipe. The beer is made at a historic Bavarian brewery in accordance with the […]