Meantime Brewery
| Privately held | |
| Industry | Brewing |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Greenwich, London, England |
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Key people
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Alastair Hook (founder) |
| Products | Beer |
| Parent | Asahi Group Holdings after sale closes |
Meantime Brewing Company is a brewery based in Greenwich, London, England.
Founded as a startup business in 2000, in May 2015 the company was acquired by SAB Miller.
As part of the agreements made with regulators before Anheuser-Busch InBev was allowed to acquire SABMiller, Meantime Brewery was sold to Asahi Breweries of Japan on October 13, 2016.
It was founded in 2000 by Alastair Hook, who trained at Heriot-Watt University and the brewing school of the Technical University of Munich of Weihenstephan. He started the brewery in a small lock-up on an industrial estate opposite Charlton Athletic’s ground, before moving to the Greenwich Brewery, 0° 2' 12" east of the Greenwich Meridian, and then to a site on nearby Blackwall Lane in 2010. The new Moeschle brewery cost £7M; by 2013 they were producing 50,000 hectolitres but a growth rate of 60% per year meant that they expected to reach their capacity of 120,000 hectolitres by 2016.
Its coffee porter, launched in 2005, was Britain's first Fairtrade beer (using coffee from the Maraba Coffee cooperative of Rwanda), and went on to win a gold award at the 2006 World Beer Cup. Meantime was the first British brewery to win awards at the World Beer Cup in 2004 and is the only British brewery to have won medals at every WBC since. However, only beers that pay to enter are judged.
In 2007, Meantime had four beers ranked in the "World's 50 Best Beers" as compiled by the UK-based International Beer Challenge; a feat it repeated in 2008. Alastair Hook was named the 2008 Brewer of the Year by the British Guild of Beer Writers.
In May 2015, it was announced that Meantime was being bought by SAB Miller, the world’s second-largest brewer, for an undisclosed amount.
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