Brewery, no visitors please
505 Platts Eyot, Hampton TW12 2HF (Richmond upon Thames)
tinyvessel.co.uk
First sold beer: December 2016
Brewing suspended: by November 2021
Brewing resumed: March 2022
One of London’s most unusually located breweries as well as one of its smallest, Tiny Vessel is in a small workshop on Platts Eyot, a privately-owned island in the Thames at Hampton on the edge of the capital. The only link to the mainland is a suspension footbridge so anything substantial has to be moved by boat.
The project is the brainchild of Ivailo Penev, a Bulgarian-born brewer who had been cuckoo-brewing botanically-flavoured beers under the name Rose Brew since 2014, and business partner Neal Durrant.
Tiny Vessel received an early boost when its coriander-infused English IPA Summit Else (5.2%) won a competition organised by hop supplier Simply Hops in January 2017 and was poured at several European showcases.
Ivailo also runs a Brentford pub, the Northumberland Arms (11 Northumberland Road, Brentford TW8 8JB). The beer is regularly on sale in cask here and is also hand-bottled.
The Northumberland closed for several months for a major refurbishment in autumn 2021 and brewing was suspended due to the loss of the main outlet. Production resumed on a small scale in March 2022, and the pub reopened in October that year.
Updated 22 December 2022.
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