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Set within a private courtyard in the vibrancy of the city, the Brewery, a Grade II listed building and holder of a City Heritage Award can trace its heritage back some 250 years.
Production at the Chiswell Street, site of Samuel Whitbread’s brewery began in 1749, with 202,000 barrels of porter ale brewed per year at its height in 1796. However, the popularity of real ale declined steadily over the following two centuries, and brewing eventually ceased altogether in 1976. Whitbread’s sold off swathes of the five-acre City site, which has now become valuable real estate. Chiswell Street, however, remained the company’s corporate headquarters, nestling alongside new shops, offices and flats, while the rest became The Brewery events facility.
The venue’s largest event space is the Porter Tun, which housed the vats (tuns) in which the ale was stored. During its golden era, the huge room, then two storeys high (the floor was added later on), stored 1,640,000 pints of beer under its beamed roof. The exposed brickwork of the walls gives the space a raw, industrial look – as traditional as it is modern – with wooden floors throughout.
The Brewery’s smaller rooms have a charm all of their own. The basement Smeaton Vaults, where the copper-lined vats were kept, are the venue’s most atmospheric spaces, featuring the original elevated walkways, sloping floors (to allow sediment to collect) and copper piping.
Finally there are the rather stunning and aptly named Sugar Rooms, where the sugar for the fermentation process was once stored. Adjacent to the larger rooms and surely two of the most elegant breakout spaces in town, the Upper and Lower Sugar Rooms overlook the cobbled courtyard, and are flooded with light from a row of long Georgian windows.
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| REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND ENQUIRIES
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| Registration for the event is free of charge, but you must register your attendance beforehand.
Should you have any enquiries on the event or need more information, please do not hesitate to contact us on citydays@sungard.com
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| DIRECTIONS
the Brewery
Chiswell Street
London
EC1Y 4SD
Tel: 0800 0681288
info@thebrewery.co.uk
Directions
Registration opens at 7:30am, in the Octogan of the main entrance.
TRAVEL
Underground
BARBICAN - (5 minute walk)
Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City lines and Thameslink
MOORGATE STATION - (5 minute walk)
Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City, Northern lines, British Rail and Thameslink
BANK STATION - (15 minute walk)
Central, Northern and Waterloo & City lines
LIVERPOOL STREET STATION - (15 minute walk)
Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City, Central lines and British Rail
Bus
A network of bus routes serve the local area. Please call London Transport on: 020 7222 1234 for details of your best route.
Bicycle
Bicycle parking is available at the Brewery. Bicycle helmets can be left at our complimentary cloakroom.
Parking
Convenient multi-storey NCP carparks located at:
- Beech Street (8am to Midnight everyday)
- Finsbury Square (24hrs, Mon-Sat)
- London Wall (24hrs, Mon-Sat)
- Aldersgate Street (24hrs, open everyday)
ACCOMMODATION
If you require accommodation for the event then we suggest the following hotels which are close to the Brewery
- Great Eastern Hotel (5*)
- Threadneedles Hotel (5*)
- The Rookery (4*)
- The Zetter Hotel (4*)
- Malmaison (4*)
- The Hoxton (4*)
- Thistle City Barbican (3*)
- Holiday Inn (2*)