Wild Card Brewery

Microbrewery in Walthamstow, London, Greater London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2012

Closed in 2024

Contact
2 Lockwood Way, London, E17 5RB, England
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.

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6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Can from Tesco. Nose is dank, light citrus, peach, mango, hint of grape. Taste is huge mango, light dank, more mango, lychee, melon, barley sugar (good shout reviewer below), hint of banana (banoffee?), sugar, over ripe pineapple, hint of vanilla. It's fine, and it's nice having new beers in a supermarket, but it's too sweet and lacks balance.
Tried from Can on 19 May 2019 at 20:37

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
440ml can. Pours hazy bright red with a small head. Aroma is cherry drops and yoghurt. Taste has salty cherry and yoghurt. Easy drinker.
Tried from Can on 17 May 2019 at 20:09

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
16/5/2019. Sample courtesy of Keli-lime, cheers Simon! Pours slightly hazy pale gold with a small lasting white head. Aroma of hops, tropical fruit, citrus, malt, mango, light pine and lemon biscuit. Moderate sweetness, medium bitterness. Medium body, slight oily texture, average to soft carbonation. Nice bitterness to finish. Decent brew.
Tried on 16 May 2019 at 20:26

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can from Cotteridge Wines; hazy amber pour with a frothy white head, aroma has citrus and malts, taste has juicy fruits some malt background, hints of pineapple, ok stuff
Tried from Can on 11 May 2019 at 16:24

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
44cl can. A clear golden beer with a mid-sized good lasting white head. Aroma of moderate citrusy hops, pale malt, straw and yeast. Taste of citrusy bitter hops, straw, some grapefruit and straw leading to a bitter finish.
Tried from Can on 08 May 2019 at 18:59

7/10
Tried from Draft on 04 May 2019 at 15:29

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can from Tesco; hazy golden yellow pour with a frothy off white head, aroma has citrus and a hint of peach, taste has biscuity malts, crisp citrus, slight bitterness.
Tried from Can on 04 May 2019 at 12:43

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
440ml can. Pours dark gold with a small head. Aroma is sweet, bready papaya. Taste is sweet, with mango and papaya jelly.
Tried from Can on 03 May 2019 at 20:54

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
330ml can. Pours murky gold with a small head. Aroma is bready mango. Taste has sweet mango throughout with a bready finish.
Tried from Can on 30 Apr 2019 at 21:14

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can from Tesco. Hazy golden. Citrus and tropical fruit light bittersweet to sweet hints of passion fruit. Medium body.
Tried from Can on 27 Apr 2019 at 12:00