Brixton Brewery

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

Established in 2013

Contact
Arches 547+548, Brixton Station Road, London, 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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7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle at home. Pours cloudy amber with an off white head. Aroma of grassy hops, nettles, weeds and light malt. Flavor is light to moderate sweet and over moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2013 at 14:20

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; chestnut pour with big fluffy tan head, roasted malt aroma with a hint of piney hop, sweet taste with some hop and red fruits.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Dec 2013 at 14:52

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; cloudy amber pour with frothy off white head, phenolic aroma, tastes a bit artificial not at all balanced there’s some bitterness and some metallic, won’t stand out in what is already an excellent London brewing scene.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Dec 2013 at 08:36

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; hazy amber pour with thin white head, grass and malt aroma, doughy malt taste a hint of citrus, hint of bitterness.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2013 at 15:11

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at Dadsgiving, from ABM (I think), 24/11/13. Hazed orange amber with a moderate off white covering. Nose is ladies armpit after a moderate cycle ride, bitter orange, light hop notes, perfume trace. Taste comprises earthy hops, orange pith, mandarin, steraw. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, dry grassy finish with subtle hop bitterness. Ok stuff but not a patch on other IPA’s coming out of the smoke these days!
Tried from Bottle on 04 Dec 2013 at 13:09

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Sourced Market St Pancras and drunk at home. Hazy amber colour with a thick beige head. Quite an attractive big hoppy aroma. Big pink grapefruit. Juicy. Big good hops, good bitterness but still reasonably well balanced. My kinda big huge IPA that just puts a smile on your face. Nice and fresh too.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2013 at 05:40

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle from Sourced Market St Pancras and drunk at home. Hazy ruby ber with lasting beige head. Resiny sweetish hoppy aroma. Now this I do like. If it was a touch more hoppy I’d love it. I like this sweet strawberry jam malt flavour. Sweetish jammy malty beer, the kind of beer I think someone like SilkTork would like. Little hop on the finish. Funny, I’d have this down as a mild. Decent beer.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Nov 2013 at 10:37

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Bottle from Sourced Market St Pancras and drunk at home. Hazy amber with lasting white head. Some citrus hops on the aroma. Decent enough American hop led pale ale. Some fruit salad flavours. Some bitterness, but mostly a soft finish. Yep, decent pale ale. Quite tasty, a little muddiness, could be a little cleaner, but ok.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Nov 2013 at 08:05

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Bottle shared by Colin at Dadsgiving. Pours orange with white head. Nose and taste of grapefruit peel, malt, bread, grass and light ever so slight plastic. Lighter medium body.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Nov 2013 at 21:30

6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6
Bottle at home from the launch at Craft Beer Co Brixton. Murky caramel copper pour with a thin lasting greyish cream head. Aroma is lots of hot fussel alcohol, caramel and berry with some twigs and orange. Flavour is better, orange, caramel, light tart hedgerow berries. Some plasticy phenols. Mellow fruity bitterness. Medium sweet finish. Medium body.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Nov 2013 at 14:54