Hackney Brewery

Microbrewery in Walthamstow, Greater London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: Hackney Brewery - High Hill Tap

Established in 2011

Closed in 2025

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Unit 10, Lockwood Way, Walthamstow, E17 5RB, England
Description
We're Hackney Brewery — a small, independent craft brewery from London who has been dedicated to producing the most progressive accessible styles of hop forward independent craft beer to high standards.

We’re passionate about producing high-quality beers which are not only flavourful and aesthetically pleasing but also suitable for anyone who is interested in trying good quality craft beer. We've spent years refining and progressing our recipes to keep up with people’s ever-changing taste.

We were founded in 2011 by Peter Hills and Jon Swain in a couple of railway arches in Haggerston, Hackney.

Over the years we’ve invested in state-of-the-art lab equipment, new machinery and we strive to continuously improve our processes and work to get the best out of our ingredients.

Now with a focus on Keg and Can formats with modern and US hop forward styles, we provide a complete core range of crafted styles from Session-able table beers, hop forward pales and IPA’s, hazy juice bombs, a multi award winning peach and basil sour and crystal clear craft lager.

In 2021 we opened our new site on the Blackhorse Beer Mile, High Hill Taproom, home to Hackney Brewery.

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6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Gravity dispense at the LBA fest at Le Gothique, 24/07/14. Lightly hazed golden with a moderate off white head formed of bubbles. Nose is papaya, melon, straw, earthy hop rinse, tangerine. Taste comprises earthy citrics, grass, lemon peel, orange pith, apricot jam, bread dough. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, light hop bitterness in the close. Decent enough GB, better conditioning and I reckon this would easily hit 3.3.

Tried on 17 Aug 2014 at 04:21


4.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Cask at GBBF, 2014. Gold pour with a white head. Stewed veg aroma with a modicum of fruit. Dull flavours of cucumber and more stewed veg. Not good.

Tried from Cask on 16 Aug 2014 at 06:11


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask gravity at the 2014 GBBF. Clear golden orange colour with a lasting loose off white head. Aroma is spicy, cleaning products cutrus . flavour is spicy citrus, somewhat dull, light caramel. Palate is semi sweet, moderate carbonation. Middle of the road.

Tried from Cask on 14 Aug 2014 at 08:42


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask - Light mango and pale malts. Clear gold with a decent white head. Grains and earthy hops and with almost no bitterness.

Tried from Cask on 13 Aug 2014 at 09:35


8

Tried on 12 Aug 2014 at 04:47


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask - Big tropical fruit nose with some sweet grapefruit. Clear pale gold with a bubbly white head. Lite citrus bitterness and some grapefruit. Smells great, but fruit doesn’t translate well into taste.

Tried from Cask on 07 Aug 2014 at 08:21



6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

From London Beer Market and drunk at home. Dark brown black beer with lasting pale beige head. Malty aroma with just a little roast. More like dry malt. OK in mouth. Some tang. Like spicy malt. Not sure about this. Not that there is anything wrong with it. Just not sure I like the malts. OK.

Tried on 17 Jul 2014 at 09:10


6

Tried on 29 Jun 2014 at 11:39



Brewery Stats
Score 6.62
Beers140
Ticks611