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When Brewdog entered the beer scene way back in 2007, it seemed like a genuine breath of fresh air. A challenge to the brewing status quo from two 20-something-year-old Scots with a taste for quirky flavours and left-field marketing campaigns? It’s fair to say they turned some heads.
In 2026, when every pub has a roster of craft beers on tap and after Brewdog has been at the centre of a bunch of controversies, the brand no longer seems as ‘punk’ as its early days promised. Its sales have suffered in recent years, with the brewer closing 10 of its British boozers last July, including a flagship venue in Aberdeen. Then, just a month later, its beers were axed from nearly 2,000 venues across the country.
Brewdog has now been sold off to an American beverage and medical cannabis company in a deal worth £33 million. Tilray is the new owner of the global rights to the Brewdog brand name, as well as the chain’s UK brewing operations and 11 of its ‘BrewPubs’.
Brewdog’s 38 other pubs across the UK are closing with immediate effect (you can find a full list here), including eight in the capital.
Luckily for London’s dad crowd, five of the venues which have been saved are in the capital, along with bars in Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin. The doomed boozers have already poured their last pints, having closed with immediate effect on Monday (March 2) when the new deal was signed.
Unite has called out Brewdog for treating its staff as ‘disposable pawns’. The move made 484 members of staff redundant across the shuttered venues in what the union called ‘nothing short of a national disgrace’.
Under Tilray’s new ownership, Brewdog’s list of venues, once numbering close to 60, will end up at a grand total of 13 across the UK and elsewhere. Tilray said it was ‘separately negotiating to acquire certain Brewdog assets in the US and Australia’.
Which Brewdog pubs have shut in London?
Here’s a full list of all the London Brewdog bars that have already closed their doors.
- Soho
- Camden Road
- Chancery Lane
- Clerkenwell
- Ealing
- Hammersmith
- Seething Lane
- Tower Bridge
Which London Brewdog pubs are staying open?
The following five London sites have been acquired by Tilray and will remain up and running.
- Canary Wharf
- Paddington
- Seven Dials
- Tower Hill
- Waterloo
Did you see that one of London’s greatest culinary families is opening a new pub in Notting Hill?
Plus: a very fancy new rooftop bar is opening in Holborn.
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