The first brewery to hit Croydon since the Page and Overton Brewery closed in 1954.
The Cronx (an affectionate name for the town) has been set up by two Crystal Palace fans Mark Russell, and Simon Dale.
Currently producing small batches on a 60 litre pilot kit, they're in the final stages of installing a huge 2,000 litre vessel for production into their new brewery in New Addington. Having already produced Entire Porter which the second fastest selling beer at the CPFC Beer Festival in May they currently both hope the first casks will be heading to pubs from August and I for one can't wait!
The establishment of the Cronx Brewery is clearly good news, but it is certainly not the first brewery in Croydon since the closure of Page and Overton in 1954. In fact, two other Croydon breweries have come and gone since then: Burke's Brewery at the Lion, Pawsons Road, was brewing from 1981 to 1986; and the Fiddler and Firkin in South End was brewing from 1993 to 1999.
ReplyDeleteI believe you are correct although both were brew pubs, where as Cronx is the first stand alone Brewery
ReplyDeleteI am indeed correct. They were certainly home-brew pubs, but there is no doubt that they qualified as commercial breweries, thus rendering inaccurate the assertion that the Cronx Brewery is the first in Croydon since 1954. (Incidentally, Burke's beer was, of course, sold in other pubs as well as the Lion.)
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