Spartan [CLOSED]

Location: 8 Almond Road

Opening hours: closed down June 2023

Other days: n/a

Official site: https://spartanbrewery.com/

Last updated: 23/08/2023

Yes, I know Google Maps says it's 140m from Three Hills to Spartan. Their recommended route, bizarrely, is to walk all the way to the end of Almond Road, do a U-turn and walk all the way back, whereupon you'll discover that Spartan is literally in the arch next door to Three Hills, and you probably nearly went there by mistake earlier. (Mind you, count yourself lucky. In the time between Affinity moving out of Arch 7 and us updating the site to say Three Hills had moved in, Google Maps tried to be clever and send you to Affinity’s new Brixton location, which is a five and a half kilometre walk each way.)

When we first did the Mile back in 2014, 8 Almond Road was where the Partizan brewery was located - as you'll see in a little while, they've moved into bigger premises. Is it just coincidence that the arch's new owners, Spartan, have chosen a name that's kinda sorta an anagram of Partizan? No idea, really. Initially there was very little information about them – their website was, well, spartan in terms of what it told you about the brewery's history, other than there were two guys there called Colin and Mike who do absolutely everything.

There’s not much more than that on there these days, frankly, so we’ll have to rely on the evidence of what we actually get at 8 Almond Road - the tiniest venue you'll encounter today, a space that's almost entirely taken up by a brewery and a few taps (including a couple on cask and a cider). Originally seating was restricted to the outdoor area they share with their neighbour, but nowadays there’s an upstairs seating area that’s somehow been fitted in above the bar. For a while, Spartan were unique on the Mile for being the only brewery serving their beers directly out of the brew tank, until Three Hills moved in next door and began doing that with their saison. But their mixture of cask and keg makes a nice change when you’ve got this far down the route. One of the more underrated breweries you’ll encounter today, but don’t pass them by...

…is what we were saying back in 2022. Sadly, it looks like lots of people did pass them by, and the brewery closed down in June of 2023. But there’s a small bit of good news to report – as you can see in the comments below, Battersea Brewery have picked up the space, and are running it as a second home alongside their original brewery just down the road from the power station. We’ll be reporting on that soon.

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Comments

[Sains Data]

Why did Spartan choose their name?

[steve]

We've just taken over the old spartan site as a bigger place to brew for battersea brew!