Anspach & Hobday

Paul Anspach and Jack Hobday have been friends since childhood. They started homebrewing at university, Kickstarted £5,000 for their first proper brew kit, and opened on Druid Street in 2013 with two beers: a Smoked Brown and a porter. The porter won. Anspach & Hobday's London Black — a nitro porter with a long chocolate-roast finish — has become one of London's definitive craft beers, and the brewery leans deliberately into London's porter heritage, the style that was born in this city three centuries ago. They've since expanded production to Croydon, but the Bermondsey taproom remains. Twelve taps, usually busy.