Eddisons in association with CBRE, will sell the brewery’s contents via private treaty and online auction ahead of the site’s inevitable transformation to a residential and commercial hub.

Previously home of Watney’s Red Barrel and Pale Ale, the Mortlake brewery had produced Budweiser for the last 20 years.

More than 60,000 bottles of lager an hour were processed by its bottling line for distribution in the UK and across Europe.

The plant had an annual brewing capacity of 2.35 million hectolitres.

The plant comprises a Steinecker brewhouse, fermentation block, chip cellar and bottling line, along with grain handling equipment.

It also features more than a hundred 100-and-200-hectolitre brewing vessels, yeast plant and energy centre to be sold by private treaty.

Hundreds of lots of ancillary assets will also be sold in an online auction on January 16, with a viewing day on January 11.

Jason Pinder, national head of machinery and business assets at Eddisons, explained: “The vast scale of the contents of this iconic brewery is likely to attract the interest of global brewing businesses as well as those in developing countries.

“This is a rare opportunity to invest in high quality, large capacity brewery plant. We expect high levels of interest in the plant and urge interested parties to contact us sooner rather than later.”