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Clifton Inns (Scottish & Newcastle)

Orange Brewery, London SW1

Brewpubs closed or no longer brewing

The Orange 37 Pimlico Road SW1W 8NE (Westminster)First sold beer: February 1983Ceased brewing: February 2001

The Yorkshire Grey 26 Theobalds Road WC1X 8PN (Camden)First sold beer: October 1984Ceased brewing: mid-2001

The Greyhound 151 Greyhound Lane SW16 5NJ (Lambeth)First sold beer: August 1984Ceased brewing: 1997

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Watneys Beer

Watneys Beer, London

Beer firmActive since: April 2016

Generations of drinkers must have thought they’d seen the back of this once-notorious London brand: see Stag Brewery. But in 2016 it was back, licensed by Nick Whitehurst of Brands Reunited from Heineken.

There have never been any plans for a separate brewery. Originally the beer, […]

Stag Brewery (AB InBev)

A once-familiar bar mount for Watney’s notorious keg bitter Red Barrel.

This page covers the now-closed Stag Brewery at Mortlake as well as the also-defunct original Stag Brewery at Pimlico. For the more recent attempted revival of the Watney brand see Watneys Beer.

Formerly Watney Mann Truman (Grand Metropolitan), Watney Mann, Watney Combe Reid […]