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 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On draught at BrewDog Leicester as part of Collabfest 2019. Dark gold, hazy with a scummy white head on top. Wow... pine, melon and fruit punch in the surprisingly sumptuous aroma. Silky and dank taste with an overarching sweetness. The finish brings pear, papaya, candy sugar. The heavy carbonation works with this beer. Nice one!
Tried
from Can
on 17 Oct 2019
at 18:28
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can at jocktoberfest. Pours deep brown, nose is raspberry, chocolate, roasted, taste is similar, sweet. 3.7
Tried
from Can
on 15 Oct 2019
at 08:30
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 11 Oct 2019
at 22:22
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Park Fever, Hither Green. From the Skyline box. Reddish-purple pour with a pink head. Nose is blackcurrant jam, oatmeal, tart red berries. Taste is blackberries, raspberry jam, lots more tart berries. Quite a dry number. Tasty, easy drinking action.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Oct 2019
at 17:10
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Nice, this. Sharp raspberry, rich dark chocolate, loads of malt. And doesn't taste it's strength either.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2019
at 14:15
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home in Hackney - picked up at the Experiment. Pours a beautiful, deep reddish purple with a foamy, pink head. Quite well rounded, lots of juicy blackcurrent, soft apricot, a little berry tartness, low seedy bitterness, touches of lemon. Light bodied with average carbonation. Finishes with more lightly jammy blackcurrant character, restrained sweetness. Super drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Oct 2019
at 18:12
6/10
Tried
on 28 Sep 2019
at 21:30
7.5/10
Mildly tart, great colour, getting both the apricot and black currant clearly here, as well as a lactic oatiness up front and at the end
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Sep 2019
at 14:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Can from Tesco Danestone. It pours dark brown - black with a light tan head. The aroma is sweet, sticky, plenty of tangy raspberry action, sherbet, juicy, chocolate donut and éclairs. The taste is dry, tart, tangy raspberry, juicy, toasty, earthy, cacao, chocolate and a touch of burnt toast with a drying finish. Lighter end of medium body and fine, foamy carbonation. I really like the aroma, but the taste is dominated by tangy raspberry and a bit thin. Saying that it drinks fine and isn't as bad as some have suggested.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Sep 2019
at 13:36
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 4.5
Can. Nose is roast, cherry coke, raspberry, jelly, thin black coffee, raspberry tea, straw. Taste is roast, dry raspberry, slight after taste of dark chocolate, raspberry tea, hint of cola. Chocolate becomes more pronounced as it opens. Don't understand where the donut comes in tbh. Thin and weirdly fizzy. It doesn't really work as nothing hangs together. The raspberry has a dry fruit tea quality which doesn't fit with the chocolate and stout elements. The base stout is too thin and lacks a robust chocolate. It is on the cusp of failed experiment and just plain bad.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Sep 2019
at 19:37