Brewery moved outside London
Original site: 4 Thrapston Road, Woodford, Kettering NN14 4HY (Northamptonshire, outside London)
London site: 7 Almond Road SE16 3LR (Southwark)
Current site: 5 Cosy Nook, Thrapston, Kettering
NN14 4PS (Northamptonshire, outside London
threehillsbrewing.com
First sold beer: October 2016 (at original site), September 2020 (at London site)
Ceased brewing in London: Spring 2023
Andrew Catherall worked as a brewer in China before founding Three Hills as a small batch nanobrewery in a rural setting at Woodford, Northamptonshire. A longstanding aspiration for a London outlet was realised in 2020 when Affinity moved from a Bermondsey arch to the cellar of the Grosvenor Arms in Brixton, leaving its old kit behind as it waas too tall for the new location.
Three Hills was the arch’s third brewing tenant since 2015 when it was first occupied by Partizan, founded next door. Three Hills used Affinity’s old 10 hl kit, originally at Long Arm in Ealing, though with modifications and the addition of a new set of fermenters.
The brewery retained its original site, though for some time produced most of its beer in Bermondsey, which also provided a taproom. Late in 2022, it relocated its Northamptonshire activities to a larger site not far away at Thrapston, and began concentrating production there. The brewhouse was moved from Bermondsey to Thrapston in spring 2023 and the arch is now just a taproom.
The logo consists of the Chinese characters for ‘three hills’ (三山).
Beers are in keg, tank, can, bottle and occasional cask.
Updated 1 September 2023.
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