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.
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
440ml can. Pours hazy light gold with a medium head. Aroma is grassy, herbal and pissy. Taste has herbal bubblegum to start and a bitter bubblegum finish. Pissy aftertaste.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jun 2020
at 19:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
[33cl can from Beer52.] A pale straw coloured pour, slightly hazy with a loose white head; citrusy aroma; rather thin with a citrus taste; a gentle bitterness, and a dry finish. Pleasant but unexciting - nice design on the can though!
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jun 2020
at 18:04
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Really been looking forward to this, and it does not disappoint! Pours a slightly hazy straw colour with a foamy white head. The aroma is mellow, with citrus and stone fruit in the mix. Has a smooth, medium carbonated mouthfeel, and the fruit flavours bounce off the tongue fabulously, hints of melon and peach and some pineapple with more than a hint of hop bitterness floating about too. The finish is lasting, leaving a fruity bitterness tingling on the tongue
Tried
on 25 Jun 2020
at 15:01
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Rocky white head left a frothy cover on an unclear pale gold body. Hoppy herbal aroma. Medium bodied, lightly carbonated with limp back. Bitter/Sweet tasting with stone fruit, Tropical & confectionery & with tangy finish. Deece.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2020
at 20:54
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home from Tesco. A mostly clear golden yellow coloured pour with a frothy fading white head. Aroma is creamy coconut, rubber, soft earthy wheat, some citrus. Flavour is composed of soft wheat, base malts, spicy citrus, lime, creamy coconut. earthy sabro, grape jelly, earthy hop. Palate is little grainy, light hop resin, moderate fine carbonation. Sabro makes this beer a lot better.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Jun 2020
at 21:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at home in Hackney - sourced from Clapton Craft online. Pours clear yellow-gold, effervescent, with a foamy, white head. Holds modest sweetness, some white grape, nips of dank piss notes, bready pale malts, light bitter lemon rind. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Finishes with more dank cat pee, melon, pale bread. Not bad.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jun 2020
at 20:47
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml can from Beer52; BB 31st Jan 2021. Drank at home on 9th Jun 2020 while having a BBQ. Cloudy yellow pour, fast fading white topping. Grapefruit and citrusy friends rule the nose and taste, didn't go too well with my burger.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jun 2020
at 08:01
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at home picked up from Tesco. A mostly clear dark mahogany brown coloured pour with a fading dark tan head/ fizz. Aroma is fizzy raspberryade, woody roast, berries, dark chocolate, woody. Flavour is composed of fizzy, woody roast, light metalic rusty penny, woody berries, earthy dried chocolate. Palate is fizzy, chalky, highish carbonation, light tang.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jun 2020
at 21:15
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
2/6/2020. Sample courtesy of the SHIG, cheers! Pours slightly hazy pale yellow gold with a small bubbly white head. Aroma of grapefruit, citrus, pineapple and grass. Moderate sweetness and light bitterness with a slight tart edge. Moderate body. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2020
at 18:05
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can: poured a hazy yellow orange with a fast dissipating white head. Aroma is fruity, tropical, melon, pineapple. Taste is right on the nose, juicy, fruits, melon, citrus, tropical, acidic pineapple.
Tried
from Can
on 26 May 2020
at 18:26