Brixton Brewery

Commercial Brewery in Brixton, Greater London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Owned by Heineken UK
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2013

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Arches 547+548, Brixton Station Road, Brixton, SW9 8PF, England
Description
Brixton Brewery is one of London’s established craft breweries, making beer in the heart of one of London’s most colourful and famous neighbourhoods. We were founded in 2013 by two local couples, Jez and Libby and Mike and Xochitl, but our shared passion for beer started years before that, when we met in the old Hive Bar (now Craft Beer Co. Brixton), and bonded over newborn babies, and a dream of opening a brewery. We reckoned that every great neighbourhood deserves a great brewery, and we wanted to bring one to Brixton.

In 2017 Brixton Brewery announced the biggest news in its short history. That it had partnered with Heineken UK in a deal that would enable the business to open a second site in Brixton, boost capacity nearly tenfold from its 3,000hl site to up to 30,000hl, and significantly grow its team as a result.

As per 2021, Brixton is 100% owned by Heineken.

Brixton now only carry out small-scale brewing. Production brewing moved to Beavertown in September 2024.

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7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Stable, bit fluffy just off-white head over lowly carbonated clear paler copper-golden beer. Very fruity, aromatic nose, with ureum, rosewater, citrus, passion fruit, lunaria. Bitterish-fruity hoppy taste with a good sweet-ish malt backing, pale, crystal & lightly toasted malts. Retronasal again all the above fruit- and other esters. Undercarbonated, light body, slight hopoilslickness. They must cling to the CO² rebuff, no? Decent, IPA. Thanks, Jezza!
Tried on 05 Mar 2017 at 10:22

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
330ml bottle from the eebria sell-off. Pours clear pale gold with a thick white head. Aromas of green tea, bread dough. Taste is light herbal, light sweet white bread. Faint spice. Prickly carbonation. Dry finish.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Feb 2017 at 12:53

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Keg, half-pint in the Brixton Craft on 22nd Jan 2017. Golden orange pour, white head. Tropical fruit esters in the nose, flavours similar: citrus leanings within the fruitiness. So another citrus hoppy golden beer: bored with them, but scored objectively.
Tried on 02 Feb 2017 at 23:59

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask half-pint in The Brixton Craft on 22nd Jan 2017. Deep amber body, white head that lasted. Malts all the way here, well until the slightly bitter hop finish anyway. Toffee like esters in the nose and initial taste, a bag of mixed fruits within the aroma and flavours also. More going on than meets the eye in this brew. Liked it.
Tried from Cask on 02 Feb 2017 at 23:53

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Keg at Brixton Brewery Tap, Brixton, Saturday 3rd December 2016 whilst on a Brixton and Brockwell Park walk from the London Hidden Walks Book vol 2 Pours dark amber with a filmy white head atop. Fruity and quite traditional, however it’s got a good bitter bite. Good beer. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4
Tried from Draft on 03 Dec 2016 at 10:34

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Keg at Craft Beer Co, Brixton, Saturday 3rd December 2016 whilst on a Brixton and Brockwell Park walk from the London Hidden Walks Book vol 2 Pours a deep reddy/orange colour, thick in the mouth, unusual hoppiness, likeable but different. Strength is apparent, lingering bitter bite, hard pithy edge. Good. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov15 3.8
Tried on 03 Dec 2016 at 09:19

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle from Eebria taproom Bermondsey and drunk at home. As I was pouring it, it just smelt of the tropical islands, tropical fruit, coconut, pineapple etc. Hazy gold orange pale brown beer lasting white head. Dirty earthy tropical friut aroma. Decent IPA in the mouth, some caramel, some bitterness on the finish but it’s all about the shout of tropical fruit. Pretty good. Full on tropical fruit IPA. Impressive. Raw yet smooth. Aggressive yet approachable. Dry and sweet. Pretty good fun.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Nov 2016 at 10:47

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle from Eebria Bermondsey and drunk at home. Gold slight haze lasting white head. Saison aroma. Saison flavour. Dryish in the mouth. Lots of fruit. Very good I thought, such good fruity tropical fruit flavour. Good citrus finish. Lovely.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Nov 2016 at 14:07

8/10
Tried on 01 Nov 2016 at 06:05

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Keg at Craft Beer Co, Covent Garden, London. A hazy golden/orange coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Hoppy, orange, tropical fruit aroma. Tastes similar, hoppy, orange, tropical fruit, bitter/sweet. Best beer I’ve had from Brixton.
Tried on 30 Oct 2016 at 05:52