Brewpub Near Me in Walthamstow: Signature Brew's Brewery Stage on Blackhorse Lane

On a Thursday in late October 2026, the Signature Brew Comedy Club puts Chloe Petts on at 7pm and Mark Watson at 9.15pm. Both shows happen in a room where the beer is brewed a few metres from the stage. The brewery is at Unit 15, Uplands Business Park, Blackhorse Lane, London E17 5QJ, a short walk from Blackhorse Road station. It opens at 4pm from Tuesday to Thursday and stays open until 1am on Fridays and Saturdays. If you are searching brewpub near me in east London, this is the one with a stage.

Tom Bott and Sam McGregor started Signature Brew in 2011. They launched with a collaboration beer for the band The Rifles at The Troxy. Their slogan is beer that makes music better, and the founding story is a brewer and a musician teaming up. The brewery says it has since worked with more musicians than any other brewery in the world, from the Libertines, Alt-J, Hot Chip and Mogwai to IDLES, Mastodon, Enter Shikari and Hak Baker.

The first proper brewery opened in Leyton in 2015. In 2018 the company won SIBA's Brewery Business of the Year award and opened its Haggerston taproom in a railway arch. In 2019, after a crowdfunding campaign that raised more than its target, it moved production to Blackhorse Lane. A second SIBA Brewery Business of the Year award followed in 2021. The brewery says no other brewery has won it twice.

The core range is short and easy to drink. Roadie is a 4.3 percent session IPA, Studio Lager is a 4.0 percent pilsner, Haze Machine is a 4.8 percent hazy pale and Backstage IPA is 5.2 percent. Backstage is now co-branded with Orange Amps, the guitar amplifier company. All four have picked up two stars at the Great Taste Awards. For drivers there is Lo-Fi, an alcohol-free pale ale at 0.5 percent.

The taps get interesting when a band collaboration is on. Do It Right is a regenerative lager made with Groove Armada and the grain company Wildfarmed. The brewery has also made beers with the Darkness, Big Joanie and Dogfish Head, the US brewery behind its Piercing Pils pear tea pilsner. Ask the bar which limited release is on, because band beers are brewed in small runs.

Food comes from a resident pop-up, currently Sireli, which cooks Armenian dishes. The easiest order for a group is the Taste of Armenia sharing platter. It comes with muhammara, house pickles, hummus, dolmas and flatbread. The veg version adds halloumi fries and falafel for £22, the meat version adds chicken kabob and lamb kofte for £26, and a combo of both costs £32. Children can order chicken and chips for £8.

On Fridays there is a lunch deal: any flatbread with a soft drink for £10. The choices are chicken kabob, lamb kofte with za'atar yoghurt or falafel with maple tahini. Fries cost £3 extra and halloumi £2.50. For birthdays and work parties, the feasting menu costs £43 a head, or £47 with dessert. It includes lamb kofte, chicken kabob, roast cauliflower, saffron rice and triple-cooked potatoes, and the desserts are baked vanilla cheesecake and a tahini brownie.

The schedule is the reason to pick this place over a quieter taproom. Every Wednesday there is a pub quiz at 8pm. On Friday 23 October the brewery hosts Battle of the Brew XIV, and on Sunday 25 October from 1pm it holds Not A Phase, a Halloween alternative market. A Nickelback album listening party with a quiz follows on 28 October, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show is screened on 29 October. Tickets for every event are on the brewery's events site.

Some of these nights sell out, as the brewery's own history shows. In 2023 Flogging Molly played a one-off intimate set on the Blackhorse Road stage. That is the risk with ticketed nights: if the comedy club or a gig is sold out, the bar can get very crowded. If you just want a quiet pint with the brewers' latest beer, come on a Tuesday or Wednesday early evening, before the quiz starts.

The brewery runs tours of its brewery and music venue, and autumn and winter dates are now on sale at £35. The tour is pitched as behind the beer, behind the music and behind the scenes. It is the only way to see the brewhouse up close, rather than through the bar. There are also Christmas tour dates in the run-up to the holidays. Table bookings and event hire are on the Blackhorse Road page of the brewery website.

Kitchen hours are shorter than bar hours. Food is served from 4pm to 9.30pm Tuesday to Thursday, from noon to 9.30pm on Friday and Saturday, and from noon to 8.30pm on Sunday. If you are coming for a late comedy slot, eat before the show. The whole site, bar and kitchen, is closed on Mondays.

Blackhorse Road station is served by the Victoria line and the Overground, and Blackhorse Lane runs north from the station to the Uplands Business Park. The brewery is inside a working business park rather than on a high street, so look for Unit 15 once you are through the gates. Hackney Church Brew Co, which is building its own brewery and taproom nearby, calls this stretch the Blackhorse Beer Mile, so expect more neighbours to drink with.

If Blackhorse Road is full or you are coming from Hackney, Signature Brew has a second venue, Signature Brew Haggerston, at Railway Arch 340, Acton Mews, London E8 4EA. It has its own gig and quiz calendar. The 17 October Belle and Sebastian special night and the 28 October Buffy the Vampire Slayer quiz are both at the arch, not at the brewery. Check which venue a ticket is for before you set off.

Address: Signature Brew Blackhorse Road, Unit 15, Uplands Business Park, Blackhorse Lane, London E17 5QJ. Email: brewersbar@signaturebrew.co.uk. Bar hours: closed Monday, Tuesday to Thursday 4pm to midnight, Friday and Saturday noon to 1am, Sunday noon to 11.30pm. Kitchen closes at 9.30pm, or 8.30pm on Sundays. Tours: £35.

Karpo can tell you which of the two Signature Brew venues has something on tonight and find a pub nearby if a gig is sold out.