ABOUT US
Multi-award-winning beers inspired by and brewed with our musical heroes
At Signature Brew we make beer that makes music better, crafting an award-winning range of music inspired beers in a state-of-the-art brewery by day and legendary live music venue by night. Since forming back in 2011 during the craft beer revolution we have collaborated with more musicians than any other brewery on the planet.
Our commitment to brewing the highest quality, industry defining beers as well as to the community and environment means we're the only brewery to have won SIBA’s prestigious Brewery Of The Year Award twice (2018 & 2021).
In an age when time comes at a premium every moment counts, but none more than those spent enjoying great music in good company. Signature Brew exists to ensure these times are never compromised; from the moment the first beer hits to the moment the beat drops.
Our limited release band collab beers have seen us work with artists of all sizes, including household names such as the Libertines, Alt-J, Hot Chip, Mastodon, IDLES, Hak Baker, The Darkness, Enter Shikari, Dynamite MC, Noisy, Flogging Molly, Sports Team, Big Joanie and Mogwai to name just a few.
Our core range features Roadie IPA, Studio Lager, Backstage IPA and Haze Machine which have all won two stars at the Great Taste Awards and are beloved by drinkers around the world.
Tom Bott & Sam McGregor found Signature Brew, launching a collab beer with The Rifles at The Troxy, Shoreditch
Signature Brew launches beers with Enter Shikari, Dry The River, Craig Finn & Mastodon
Pitchfork, NME, Rolling Stone & Kerrang! announce our collab with Frank Turner, and we release the first of four beers with Hospital Records.
Signature Brew beers are exported overseas to the USA for the first time and are named 'Top Of The Hops' by The Guardian
The brewery opens in Leyton allowing for a significant increase in production & quality control. We also release a beer with Heck at warehouse party gig
Our core range of beers are released: Studio Lager, Roadie, Backstage IPA & Nightliner. We also collab with Millencoin
We take our beer to Slam Dunk Festival with The Bronx, Frank Iero & Against Me! Foo Fighters request us at their pop-up pub and we pour beers at The Killers & Metallica shows. Plus we collab with Slaves, Rodney P & The Skints
We're crowned SIBA's Brewery Business Of The Year. The Taproom & Venue opens in Haggerston, and collaborations with Lightyear, alt-J & Mogwai are released
Queen Bee is brewed with the Women of Manchester Punk Festival and The Collab opens in Walthamstow. We move from Leyton to Blackhorse Lane following an over-funded crowd-funding campaign and we collaborate with IDLES
We collaborate with Norway's Nogne & The Women Of Manchester Pink Festival for IWD 2020, raising money for NHS charities We launch our Pub In A Box, local deliveries are done by unemployed musicians and it features on GQ, Timeout, LADBible and more We also collaborate with Sports Team, DRS, Dynamite MC, and brew a a seasonal bitter with The Darkness
We pick up the SIBA Brewery Business of the Year Award for an unprecedented second time and the SIBA Marketing Award for a second time, too.
Elsewhere, we launch Signature Brew Beer Grants to help independent venues, & bring our stage to Bigfoot Festival with collab beers from Hot Chip, Pigs x7, Big Joanie & The Wytches.
Oh yeah and we host Dialled In Festival (with a surprise set from Skrillex), comedy gigs from Ed Gamble and Tim Key and a charity BBQ cook off with Michelin star chefs.
2022 Marked our busiest festival season to date, we showed up at Truck Fest, Red Rooster, Wing Jam, Manchester Punk Fest, Outbreak, Krankbrothers and many more. Plus over in our own venues we get a surprise visit from Tony Hawk (yes THAT Tony Hawk) as the 900 take to the Haggerston Stage. We capped off the year by brewing a collab beer with one of our brewing heroes, Dogfish Head - the dangerously crushable ‘Piercing Pils’ Pear Tea Pilsner.
We activate at Wembley Arena, providing great beer to some 10,000 heavy music fans at the Heavy Music Awards. We also hosted one of our biggest sell-out shows to date at Signature Brew Blackhorse Road with Flogging Molly taking to the brewery stage to delight their fans with a one-off intimate performance and over at Haggerston Lola Young sells-out a three night residency. Out in the trade we kicked off a beautiful partnership with Rough Trade, pouring our beer exclusively across all of their UK stores. And in the tanks we were busy working on Riot Grrrl for TATE - the recipe that went on to become the base for our now much loved core beer Haze Machine.
Signature Brew beers reach further than ever before, travelling to Sweden, Finland and even taking over Beaches Brew Festival in Italy. We also brew some of our biggest ever collabs with Pearl Jam, Hak Baker, Travis and the Libertines, with the Libertines celebrating the release of their new album ‘All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade’ with a performance in the brewery, the album debuts at number 1 in the charts. We also brew our second collab with Tate, Ready Made, to accompany their Mike Kelly exhibit, and Tim Burgess of the Charlatans turns up to DJ the launch party!
This year sees a huge leap forward for our hero beer Roadie IPA, which gets a brand-new look and immediately goes into ASDA stores nationwide. Elsewhere Haze Machine is crowned as our 4th core beer and lands a Great Taste star, meaning all four of our core beers are now Great Taste certified. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’ we brew three collab Oasis beers which pour in Oasis' pop-up pub in central London. Things aren’t quiet on the gigs front either, with us hosting huge events for The Lathums, Sports Team, Lila Iké, Cat Burns, Dune Rats, Circa Waves and Metronomy to name a few.
We’re not even finished with 2026, and already we’ve put on some of our biggest ever shows with Enter Shikari, Sublime, The Scratch, The Wildhearts and SiM. Plus we launched our collab with Orange Amplifiers which raises money for grassroots touring musicians via the FAC’s UK Artist Touring Fund, with 100% of profits from all pints and cans sold being donated. The years not even nearly over and we still have so many amazing things coming up… watch this space!
