Former beer firm, brewery outside London
toastale.com
Active since: January 2016
Originally based in Southwark, Toast was launched by Tristram Stuart, founder of food waste charity Feedback, with the aim of recycling waste bread into beer, a process Tristram first saw in action at Brussels Beer Project. The company had early links with E5 Bakehouse. Income from sales helps support the charity.
Most of the bread used is in the form of crusts and other offcuts donated by the sandwich industry and surplus loaves from large bakeries, typically replacing a third of the grist. The first brew was at Hackney brewery but the core beers then moved to SEB in Broadstairs, Kent.
There were numerous one-off collaborations with brewers around the country and the world. The project expanded to New York City, working with local brewers. The recipes are ‘open source’ so anyone can brew them.
In March 2023, Toast launched Good Company, a London taproom just off Marylebone Road (17 Triton Street, London NW1 3BF) in collaboration with likeminded social enterprise Change Please coffee. This proved a disappointment, with the brewer withdrawing from the arrangement in late 2024: the venue subsequently closed.
In July 2023, Toast announced it would be launching its own microbrewery, not in London but at Unity Place, a newly developed multi-purpose space in Milton Keynes. The brewery duly opened in September 2024 and I’m therefore no longer regarding Toast as a London-based beer firm.
Beers are in keg and can.
Updated 16 December 2025.
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