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Battersea Brewery Tap Room, Battersea, SW8
SW8
SW11 8AB
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Battersea Brewery Tap Room
Brewery tap under a couple of railway arches, so all quite dark with exposed brickwork inside. However, on a warm evening, most of the customers were sitting at the large wooden tables along the pedestrianised frontage. Mostly a craft keg establishment, with seven of its beers plus three guests on two hooped founts, but Admiral Best Bitter plus Rhymney Golden Ale (£5.70) as a guest from the pair of handpumps.
On 30th December 2023
- rating: 6
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Steve of N21 left this review about Battersea Brewery Tap Room
A railway arch brewery well described below. Dark and cold inside, bright and warm outside as long as the sun is out.
The Admirals Best was the lone ale on with a cider on the other pump. We didn’t think much of it and it actually went off before we could get another round in, so we reverted to their keg products and thought these were a bit of a mixed bag as well.
The location is great on a hot day if you can get space on one of the outside benches, and I would certainly use it if by the power station again. But what they brew here won’t have me making any special visits to this one.
On 23rd June 2023
- rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about Battersea Brewery Tap Room
Set in a railway arch opposite the super-ugly modern buildings that obscure Battersea Power Station and just a stone’s throw from the Thames, this is a decent brewery bar that provides a much more rounded drinking environment than many of the capital’s other railway arch taprooms. The first thing you notice on arrival is the vast amount of bench seating arranged outside, beneath the rail lines and sheltered by the tall surrounding buildings, so they don’t get all that much sun. the arch itself is quite wide, with undressed brick walls and a vaulted ceiling which gives it a nice atmospheric feel compared to the majority of metal-clad arches around the city. There’s a large servery to the right, with a hexagonal tile floor around it, a simple blocky square counter and two large beer tanks overhead, that effectively act as a bar back. Some small industrial style lamps hang above the counter and the rest of the room is lit by larger versions of the same lamp. Exposed utilities run across the ceiling and there are a few blackboards and a TV screen to the left which list the drinks options. The rest of the room is bare boarded rather than concrete floored, with tables and chairs to front, benches down the left side and high tables and stools in the rear part of the room. A staircase to the rear leads up to a mezzanine level where additional seating can be found with views down to the bar. A cool punk and emo soundtrack played throughout my time here and I noticed quite a few people seemed to be eating, but I didn't see any food menus, so maybe the food came from one of the eateries further along the track.
There were two beers available on cask - Battersea Admirals Best and Oakham Citra - whilst six more Battersea beers could be found on keg, all over 5% abv for some reason, along with three guest kegs and a cider. The Admirals Best was not really at its best, or at least is a very disappointing brew, so I was regretting not plumping for a keg option. Service was torturously slow due to many orders being taken from tables, resulting in a queue at the bar that snaked its way outside at one point.
I quite liked this place which benefits from its interesting location and doesn’t make the same mistakes a lot of railway arch brewery bars seem to make (the brewing kit is all in an adjacent arch, which helps matters for a start). The slow service and dubious beer would make me think twice about returning, but I may have been unlucky on that front.
On 26th July 2022
- rating: 6
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Battersea Brewery Tap Room
With the (relatively) nearby Mason's Arms closed due to "unforeseen circumstances", my next stop in a crawl of South West London pubs was this brewery taproom inside some railway arches under the tracks from Victoria.
As taprooms go, this one felt modern. But it lacked customers and therefore atmosphere. Just one other customer was present on a Thursday afternoon.
There are a couple of handpulls, which were both clipped with Battersea Paddy Whack and Citra & Simcoe Pale. The craft beer choice is wider - Battersea Swagger Like Us, Lyrical Genius, Eye of your Mind, Redneck Agenda, Back to Black, Delirium on Helium & Complicated Illusions & Yeastie Boys Bigmouth.
Staff were friendly, but looked a bit bored. Toilets were certainly clean. The mild was ok, but looked and tasted more like a pale ale than a mild.
On 17th December 2021
- rating: 5
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john gray left this review about Battersea Brewery Tap Room
I visited on a cold and windy night in January and this area was pretty bleak but come the summer it would be a nice place for a drink.Industrial style but I like it.Impressive array of brewing tanks.Friendly staff and I thought above average beers.Cask and keg from Battersea with a few guests
On 11th October 2019
- rating: 7
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Rex Rattus left this review about Battersea Brewery Tap Room
This is a relatively new brewery and taproom in the new Battersea Power station development. As is the case with so many of these places, it's in a railway arch. The brewery itself is in one arch, and the taproom in the adjoining one. The arch is larger than many other arches housing brewery taprooms, and in fact I've been in many smaller pubs. There's a horseshoe bar counter on the right; in front of it by the large plate glass windows is a large dull copper-topped table with normal chairs and some picnic bench style seating. To the left are a few tall table tables and tall stools crammed in that look pretty awful, having that "made from scaffolding" look. At the back are a few more tables and chairs, and at the front in the pedestrian lane is a fair bit of outside seating. The arch is tall enough inside that there's room for a smallish mezzanine level with a bit more seating.
Another first for me in a pub. I thought that the penny farthing bicycle in the outside seating area was a nice decorative touch, until some bloke got on it and rode away.
As is often the case now, this place has a greater emphasis on keg ("craft") beers rather than real ale. However, they do have a couple of handpumps, one of which was clipped for Battersea XPA (£4 a pint) when I arrived. Unfortunately it went off immediately, but was immediately replaced with another of their beers (forgotten its name), a brown 4.2% seesion ale also at £4 a pint. I tried a couple of their keg offerings - Battersea IPA (5.9% or so at £5.50 a pint, and their Scotch Ale at 6% and £5.60 a pint. The also sold "paddles" of beer at £9 a time, giving you four halves of beer - two of my companions went for one of these, allowing the barman to choose for them, and they got some of the more expensive beers included, such as the Scotch Ale. They did food, but not a large menu. The favourite seemed to be cheese toasties at £4 a go.
Although I'm not a great fan of drinking in brick built tunnels containing ugly tall tables and tall stools, against all the odds I quite liked this place. The friendly and knowledgable (on his beer anyway!) barman made it seem a pleasant experience, and I enjoyed all the beers I tried, including the keg ones. As we all know, there is keg and there is keg, and some are a quantum leap better than others. This place only sells the better ones. I found that thinking ahead helps by buying your keg beer at least half an hour before you want to drink it to allow it to warm up a bit. I guess some afficionados of this style of beer might think me very strange for doing that - they're probably right!
On 8th May 2019
- rating: 6
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