Wild Card Brewery
Microbrewery
in Walthamstow,
London,
Greater London,
England 🏴
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2012
Closed in 2024
Contact
Description
Wild Card Brewery was founded in 2012 at the Ravenswood Industrial Estate Walthamstow.
We brewed Mon-Fri and come the weekend, we would open the brewery doors and serve up our beers. With support from the local community our shed became one of Walthamstow's best loved bars, hosting beer festivals, tap takeovers and live music.
Meanwhile, in the brewery, Jaega was working away, tweaking old recipes and coming up with new ones. By 2017 she had 2 award winning beers under her belt and was struggling to make enough beer to keep up with demand - we were going to need a bigger brewery. So in 2017, we started a crowdfunding campaign to help us move the brewery to a bigger site.
In 2018 the brewery moved over to Lockwood Way, where we have doubled capacity - which means lots of Wild Card beer for all.
Wild Card Brewery now has two tap rooms in Walthamstow, and our beer is available in pubs, bars, restaurants and supermarkets across the UK.
We brewed Mon-Fri and come the weekend, we would open the brewery doors and serve up our beers. With support from the local community our shed became one of Walthamstow's best loved bars, hosting beer festivals, tap takeovers and live music.
Meanwhile, in the brewery, Jaega was working away, tweaking old recipes and coming up with new ones. By 2017 she had 2 award winning beers under her belt and was struggling to make enough beer to keep up with demand - we were going to need a bigger brewery. So in 2017, we started a crowdfunding campaign to help us move the brewery to a bigger site.
In 2018 the brewery moved over to Lockwood Way, where we have doubled capacity - which means lots of Wild Card beer for all.
Wild Card Brewery now has two tap rooms in Walthamstow, and our beer is available in pubs, bars, restaurants and supermarkets across the UK.
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Panda 🐼 at home big thanks to Colin. An opaque dark black coloured pour with a a whispy tan head. Aroma is semi sweet, rustic earthy roast, tangy apple roast, warming whisky barrel, woody some vanilla. flavour is composed of medium sweet, rounded, brown sugars, brandy snap sugars, mellow roast, apple, raisin, vanilla, oak. Palate is medium sweet, oily, rounded, mellow carbonation.
Tried
on 20 Dec 2022
at 22:32
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried
on 07 Dec 2022
at 11:21
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tried
on 07 Dec 2022
at 11:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tried
on 06 Dec 2022
at 16:50
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tried
on 05 Dec 2022
at 15:18
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at The 38th Pig's Ear Beer Festival, Hackney, London. A black coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Roasty, malty, chocolate, dark fruit taste/aroma. Nice rich boozy imperial stout.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Dec 2022
at 11:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Appearance is golden, with a big 2-3 finger pillowy head. Aroma is creamy malt, soft hoppy fruit, stewed fruit, bit of earthy malt. Taste is pine, sharp fruit, orange, sherbet, citrus notes, malty slightly earthy undertones.
Tried
on 03 Dec 2022
at 06:42
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at Pigs Ear '22, day one, 29/11/22. Black with a lasting khaki head. Nose is rich roast, chocolate, fruit cake, light smoke, toffee fudge, mellow whisky barrel. Taste comprises roast malts, chocolate, fruit cake, toffee, molasses, brown sugar melt, figs. Full bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with a spike of whisky and balanced kiss of alcohol. An absolute stunner of a high ABV cask beer! One of the best double digit cask beers I've had!
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Nov 2022
at 16:53
7/10
Tried
on 29 Nov 2022
at 17:11
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
29th November 2022
Pigs Ear. Cask. Opaque dark brown beer, tiny tan head. Palate is smooth and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Smooth dark malts, a nice level of dark chocolate, a little dark chocolate cream. Mild alcohol spice in the mid. Finishes smooth and semi dry with good fruity whiskey coming through. Head and shoulders above every other cask beer I've had today.
Pigs Ear. Cask. Opaque dark brown beer, tiny tan head. Palate is smooth and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Smooth dark malts, a nice level of dark chocolate, a little dark chocolate cream. Mild alcohol spice in the mid. Finishes smooth and semi dry with good fruity whiskey coming through. Head and shoulders above every other cask beer I've had today.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Nov 2022
at 15:00