Meantime Brewing Company in Greenwich

(This brewery is about to close down) Big Al no longer works here!! This is tragic!! I have just been on the brewery tour and can honestly say it was the best tour ever! The tour guide "Big Al" was the absolutely hilarious! Bloody comic genius and made the whole experience. If you do a tour make sure you get Big Al and don't forget to give him a big tip!

Great beer. Thank you for a pint glass. Greetings from the Czech Republic.

We popped in for a drink after going to the north Peninsula golf range and the beer was great. I can also recommend the chicken burger it was very very tasty.

Great spot and beer! Service was great, food was delicious and good atmosphere

Excellent choice of beers and not too expensive. Also do deals on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday for example its a curry with a pint for£12. Really enjoyed the visit.

Even though its a bit out of the way, its well worth a visit to this iconic brewery in Greenwich.

Beer perfect, food very good. However the Brits have forgotten what service means: for sure not to go to the bar for ordering. There really should be someone to take the orders at the table!

I would like to give a compliment to the one of your employee, Yasmin, who was very nice and kind.

Great day! Our tour guide Danny struck the right balance of humour, knowledge and irreverence to make the experience well worth the trip up from Salisbury. Whatever you do, do not leave early as the best part was in the upstairs bar where we were treated to a really informative Q & A washed down with ale! Highly recommend.

The food was and remains excellent. Beer also good. Service seems to be good too. In short, all good.

Best quality beer I've found in London!

So glad we stopped by the Meantime Brewery! It is a lovely taproom with a very friendly and inclusive atmosphere + the beer is great.

Great spot and excellent beer. Worth a stop for sure.

Great hotdog and some lovely beers, definitely recommend.

Placed an online order 6 days ago. It still hasn't even shipped.

I ordered my food wasn’t allowed to order my drink until my food came 😒

Amazing ales and new menu which I enjoyed a lot.

My favourite place to have a drink and up with friends. Food is good, not overly noisy and the beer is fresh. What more can you ask for.

If you wanna get a bit tipsy, I mean taste some wonderful beer, get a shop discount, have a great tour of the brewery with an exceptional tour guide and guess which bottle of beer costs £2500 then boy this place is the place for you. Meantime make some great beers and they are definitely worth experiencing! Next time I'm at the O2 for Paramore in April, I will 100% be dropping in. Disclaimer: Don't drink any of the liquids you may find dripping from stuff or liquids on the floor. I got told said liquids are not beer and not safe for consumption. Which is a shame because raining beer sounds great.

After purchasing some beers from the website, I had an issue with the contents delivered and contacted their Brewery Experience administrator. The issue was dealt with swiftly, kindly and to my satisfaction. My confidence in the company completely restored, I am happy to give my glowing endorsement.

Great selection of beers and possibility for a tasting flight and brewery visit. Store manager was pure gold!

Fantastic brewery in Greenwich. Shout out to Sam for his directions to an American needing directions to take the bus. Great spot for a variety of beers!

Cerveza fría y estupenda. Comida muy rica. Mucha amabilidad. Precios respetables.

Excellent brewery with an interesting & well run tour

Wonderful tour. Congrats to Buddy and Becky for a very informative tour. Loved the vibe, loved the beers. An all round great experience. Thoroughly recommend it

amazing place with friendlystaff

Well amazing place,quiet and tranquil,best sun spot in Greenwich, absolutely amazing Aberdeen Angus burger,wow amazing food and service 10 out10

This place does an excellent brewery tour with very passionate and informed guides, really nice tasting area and excellent beer.

pretty nice place with simple decor disposes to rest

This was a fantastic experience. We went here on a Saturday afternoon, and we were thoroughly impressed. The tour is well organised and informative. The guide was very engaging and explained the history of beer and the brewery really well. There were plenty of opportunities to try some of the beers and a great bar that was attached. It felt very chilled out and relaxed and informal. The tour goes through the whole factory and they allow you to look at most things. I’d just caution that this is a working factory, so be careful not to trip, slip or fall over anything. And obviously don’t press any of the buttons! However, I’d definitely recommend this.

Always a pleasure to visit the Meantime Tap Room. Has to be a pint of Yakima Red. Will be back soon!

Decent spot for a few pints if you're on your way to an event at the O2. It's a 20 minute walk away, or a couple of stops on the bus. Limited outdoor seating although there's plenty of space to provide more. Beer selection was decent, although I'm not a massive fan of their offerings in general, but there's something for most people. They did have a very pleasant red ale on offer which was tasty and a couple of reasonable IPAs. Didn't eat here, but plenty of people were when we visited. Not the cheapest brewery to drink at, but not bad all round.

😔 Bunny was gasping for a Pint, Monday evening, but clearly we're too far out from London in the counr'y siyde. Security Guard was alert though, nice to be chap too. Threat neutralised 🐰 ♥

Fantastic brewery tour with a knowledgable host. You’re walked through the entire process from grains to packaging, followed by a tasting session. Had a few beers in their taproom after which were delightful. Great to see a Greenwich based brewery doing it on the global scale. Will be back!

Trovato per caso. Ma vale la pena andarci. Cibo ottimo, birrificio con tanto di produzione nella parte dietro e visitabile, piccolo shop. Staff gentile. Lo consiglio

Decent stop, quite hidden away from the trail though. If you don't mind that they're owned by Ashai this is a good little taproom with friendly staff and a relaxed atmosphere. Beer range is good with a nice variety although we had just missed out on a Black IPA there were some other great choices such as a Bock at 8% and a lovely stronger version of their red ale too. Bar snacks served - pipers crisps A full menu is also available although I didn't try it on this occasion as didn't have time. Would reccomend, especially If you're new to or curious about becoming more into craft beers. Closest transport from Meantime - London buses which stop near the brewery. Closest Underground station is North Greenwich on the Jubilee Line and then catch a bus or taxi. Closest DLR station is Cutty Sark for Martime Greenwich and then walk past the Cutty Sark and down the Thames pathway.

Friendly helpful staff and cracking beer brewed on the premises in Greenwich , can highly recommend the chocolate porter ! I drove out of my way to purchase this delicious dark beer. Also worth a look is the exterior and roof of Rotherbury Hall next door, Victorian architecture at its finest

Awesome tour led by the legend that is Barry (Buddy). Factual but a good laugh at the same time making this an enjoyable experience, shout out to Greg (George) as well for pulling some decent beers. We’ll be back, all the best from Jo (Yoann) and Crew

Very nice and the beer is very very good!fantastic!

A good stop for our trip in Greenwich. The food is good (good portion of white bait, which is our favourite snack) the Yakima red bbq sauce is really good, would be happy to buy a bottle of it if they sell it. The hot wings are hot enough for someone grown up eating spicy food. Beer is not top notch for craft beer standard but good for someone who’s new to craft beer, my favourite is Yakima red which is their red ale. They also offer brewery tour which we have never been, seems popular though.

Amazing beer tour. Staff were so friendly and really welcoming. The tour guide was super knowledgeable and very witty.

Good tour and tastings with Bex. Only letdown was lack of beer pack souvenir options in shop

Brewery tour was great. The tour guide ‘Bex’ was wonderful. She knew more about beer than anyone I’ve ever come across, was clearly passionate about what she did, and kept everyone engaged throughout….I couldn’t think of a beer related question she didn’t know the answer to. Overall it was a very good evening.

Loved our tour. Bex was a great guide and we definitely learned more about brewing. The samples were ample and very good. Highly recommended.

Staff are friendly but unfortunately the beer selection is poor. They have 10+ draft taps but only 5 different beers and just 1 of their new brews on with multiple taps of the bog standard lager and pale ale. More interesting stuff only available in cans which is quite frankly embarrassing for a brewery taproom Shame as used to like coming here and getting the tasting paddles to try new stuff but you are better off visiting one of many nearby pubs which have a far better beer selection (The Crown, River Ale House etc)

Brilliant tour. Particular credit should go to Bex. Extremely informative and friendly. Lovely bunch of people. Would thoroughly reccomend to anyone fancying a chill few drinks or any aspiring beer snobs out there.

If you are a beer lover this place is great. You will get a different variety of beer and my personal favourite is Cutty haze and also I loved the chicken burger with beer Sauce.

Great fresh beers on tap, the Cutty Haze is a favourite. Friendly staff and decent food. We've made this a regular haunt for a few drinks.

Brilliant brewery tour - our guide was lovely, funny and knew everything about beer! Great place to drink afterwards. Would definitely recommend, learnt a lot.

It were alright. (Translation from Yorkshire - super , smashing, marvellous, great.)

Great outdoor space and attentive friendly staff. No heaters but well covered. Tasty snacks, and good beer. Limited menu so you know they're experts in everything they serve

Customer service email address doesn't work - keep getting bounce back on emails to it. Issue eventually resolved over the phone (super helpful).

What a place , it used to be much better years ago. Only really 3 decent human beings left now. Barry & Paul ( warehouse) Buddy ( retail )

Great staff and service despite the COVID restrictions

Nice place, the staff member serving us seemed a little preoccupied and stressed with her job. She got an order slightly wrong, which she rectified quickly, but my brother said, "I reckon she's going to bring you another beer" I ordered a lemonade. It's only a minor thing. Drinks are expensive here, but it's to be expected with the great quality of drinks and array of choice. It's a lovely place to head for a few drinks. I would recommend it

Great staff and beer selection, fair prices.

Great staff .excellent service no more to say .

Excellent! 6 of us went on the brewery tour and our tour guide knew everything about beer, lost on me but to my beer connoisseur mates he was an absolute genius! Gives you a new-found respect for the beer industry and the amount of work that goes into producing you a nice bevvie! Also good for food and a general relaxed atmosphere!

If you want some tasty beer come here! My Dad and I took the tour that lasted about 1.5 hours. Ryan, our tour guide, was funny, knowledgable and engaging. He was so good at answering everyone’s questions and liberal with the tasters. You’ll be in good hands here.

Gerat beer, but food takes ages to come out.

Brilliant tour from Ryan! Very informative and interesting.

The tour was excellent, guide was very knowledgeable about the brewery, the brewing process and the history of beer.

I used to live locally and regularly pop in for a few pints and a bit of food. The quality of both back then was very high, the menu varied and there was always guest beers. I was proud to call it my local. When I visited recently, for the first time in 6 years, I was sad to find it has gone a bit downhill. Must be because they sold their souls to AAB Miller. Shame.

It was a memorable brewery tour! The guide (I am sorry, I forgot her name..) was extremely friendly and very knowledgeable about beer and this brewery. The tasting was nice, they offered various types of beer with full-explanation and it was also enough to be tipsy or drunk. Overall, the whole tour was well-organised, funny and useful to understand beer histroy of London.

Killer beer and incredible tour. If you want to spend one hour enjoying some of the best London beers learning something in the meantime, this is your shot at it.

Great beer, chill environment, knowledgeable and kind staff and very clean.

Great tour with very passionate staff

This is off the beaten track and given what there is on offer, should have considerably more reviews. A tour, a pub, an eatery, a shop, a brewery. Nicely tucked away in the historic Greenwich. A London gem. Meantime is an indie brand in shape and delivery and intends to remain so. The explosion of craft beer in the UK was long overdue and has invigorated interest in beer and beer consumption right at the same time the good old English pub is threatened with extinction. Businesses like this, with a thorough approach to the commodity are thin on the ground and should really, by rights get something from Her Majesty. Visit, love, buy and frequent.....

One of the best brewery tours we've ever been on. Ryan, our guide, was super knowledgeable and extremely passionate about both brewing and the company. We'll definitely be coming around again, as there's so much more to hear, drink and learn about. Outstanding beers too...

I've been a regular customer for purchasing Meantime's beers large and small bottles format from the brewery shop with a great surprise large bottles apparently have been discontinued. Despite there was nobody to serve at the brewery shop the Meantime shop assistant was not really interested on engaging with me. The person remained seated at the back of the till with the bored face. 😑

Amazing brewery at Greenwich, really good beer and cozy place to sit and enjoy your drink. Staff are very friendly and so is the crowd. Must visit for a drink or two when you cross through Greenwich/ Blackwall road..

Nice place to grab a beer or two :)

Top beers and I wouldn’t expect a vegan (vegetarian dunno?) burger to taste so good lol and super friendly organised staff !

I live in the Midlands and booked a tour of the brewery in error thinking I was booking a local brewery, a stupid error I know, I asked if I could have a refund even though it was my mistake, latifah contacted me and advised they were happy to refund me and even attached a link for the brewery I should have booked, in this day and age customer service like this is rare if this is anything to go by the brewery I'm sure is a fantastic place to visit so make sure you go and support the business

The beer was very nice and all of the food was good as well. Nothing terribly unique but we'll executed pub classics.

Joe was a fantastic tour guide. Really good brewery tour and very engaging.

Great variety of different beers. Raspberry Wheat and Yakima Red are my particular favourites. Came here for a tour at Christmas, the guide was really great and seemed to really know his stuff. Love coming here.

The customer service is a joke. I made a mistake when I was booking the tour. Somehow I thought this brewery is not in London - however as I was on my way to the tour I realized my mistake and tried to call them but couldn't reach anyone. I wrote an email and explained what happened. Someone wrote back that I would get a refund when I send an official request on their page. (But this was just a lie to shut me up) After I send them an email and explained it again they wanted to know who promised the refund to me. And because they NEVER write a name underneath their emails of course I wasn't able to give them a name. (I've sent a screenshot from the reply, but they didn't accept it.) Maybe, they don't even have a customer service, and I was only talking to a computer? However, I guess either they just don't care about their customers - or they are broke. Der Kundenservice hier ist nicht erwähnenswert weil - nicht vorhanden. Wenn Sie eine Tour in einer Brauerei buchen möchten, kann ich diese hier nicht empfehlen. Nachdem ich bei meiner Buchung einen Fehler gemacht habe wurde ich erst angelogen und danach links liegen gelassen. (Mir wurde eine Rückerstattung versprochen, die danach aber wieder revidiert wurde) Ich habe schon viele Touren bei Brauereien gebucht aber solch ein unkooperatives Verhalten habe ich noch nie erlebt. Wirklich traurig das diese Brauerei offensichtlich auf jeden Cent angewiesen zu sein scheint.

That was a very good quality tour, but not on the outstanding side. If you want to learn about how beer is made you should visit rather Fuller's in Hammersmith or Guinness in Dublin. The guide Menon was a very knowledgeable and fool of passion and a personality. We tasted five different beers, but all of them for me was a very similar. Definitely you can recognized a style of this brewery based on German Pilsner lager school. Well balanced but more on the diluted, easy to drinking style, definitely that wasn't my cup of tea. :-) The room tasting is seraunded by bottles of beers from Michael Jackson collection. 4,6 points from me. @meantimebrewerystour "Meantime Brewing Company is a brewery based in Greenwich, London, England. The company was founded by Alastair Hook in 2000, and was purchased by SABMiller in May 2015. As part of the agreements made with regulators before Anheuser-Busch InBev was allowed to acquire SABMiller in 2016, Meantime Brewery was sold to Asahi Breweries of Japan in October 2016." It is one of the global cash cow businesses.

Great, although we were late the woman on at the shop showed us in just in time for tasting. The guide was amazing and great beer!

The perfect place to go to experience everything about the London craft beer scene! All the guys and girls here are top class!

I was visiting from Chicago and made a special trip to purchase beer to bring home. We arrived at 5:45p to be told they closed the tills early and couldn’t sell us anything. It’s insane to me that a business with customers willing to pay would turn them away before their advertised closing hours. My friend who lives nearby says this happens often.. so disappointing.

An excellent brewery tour. Highly recommended. Big Al is a legend!

Great location, great staff and great beer.

Food was good, staff provided great service, but pub and shop had a super corporate vibe. No special beers available in their shop, only their core year around beers. I expected more from brewery of this size, especially with having travelled all this way to visit.

The tour is great, we had an american girl who was very funny and very knowledgable, just a same that it is a bit of a pig to get to transport wise

I took my boyfriend here for his birthday and we had a great time. Enjoyed the free samples and had great guide who was very funny

I have been to most standard brewery tours from Guinness to cantilion, but this was awesome. Best beer tour I have ever had!! Didn’t boar you with the normal brewery nonsense but instead gave you honest to the point chat. Our guide “big al” was so knowledgable about beer, not just the beer meantime sell but knew everything I ever wanted/needed to know about all things beer related. Would recommend for anyone from a novices to a self proclaimed beer nerd.

Excellent tour - starts with drinking all types of beer and then walking around the distillery. Would definitely recommend!

Great time at meantime with a superb guide.

I was taken there for my stag-do and we all had an amazing experience. Our enthusiastic and funny guide Anna-Rose made sure we thoroughly enjoyed the evening, while learning a little bit about the different beers brewed on the site. Mostly from the tasting angle. Let's be honest, if you're looking for a 'proper' brewery tour with loads of details on the process, this probably isn't for you. However, if you're looking for good fun, loads of drinking and getting a few information on history of beer and the brewery on the side, that's definitely something for you. Great place to go to start off a stag or birthday for any beer enthusiasts!

Fresh & tasty beer from the brewery, a bit pricy. Food options available as well as a beer&suvenir shop. Cosy atmosphwre. Also a big flat screen and games foe you to play. A bit noisy due to its location near the car lane.

Sensational!, Great fun, lots of beer to drink, information about beer, stories about beer, how to make beer, what else do you need to know?

Wonderful craft brewery great food, friendly staff! Take a tour!

This is one of the greatest tours I've been on. This was a venue on my Stag. BIG AL is the life and sole. If you are lucky to get him as your host you are very lucky.

Been on this tour twice because I love it (I don't even like beer that much!!). Everytime the tour guides make it so fun and enjoyable. Would recommend to anyone wanting a fun day out!

Big Al showed us how a beer tasting tour should be done. Great beer and brilliant tour.

Meantime hosted us all for a staff party at their tasting rooms and brewery. The experience was incredible - Big Al was delightful as were the rest of the staff on duty. We all had a lot of laughs, a lot of booze so thank you Meantime!

Used to be so so so much better. The new chap who does the tour is boring!

What a fabulous tour! Big Al was funny, informative, and made the experience amazing.