Wild Card Brewery
Microbrewery
in
Walthamstow,
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.
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from Tesco Inverurie. It pours bright golden - orange with a decent white head. The aroma is fresh, juicy, ripening stone fruits, apricot, persimmon, some sweetness, powdered sugar and marmalade. The taste is dry, some green piney action, grassy, subdued bitterness, bitter - sweet character, apricot, persimmon, some oily orange marmalade and a kick of alcohol with a dry finish. Medium body and average carbonation. I preferred it straight out of the fridge when it was cooler, as it warned up it got a touch oily. Saying that it's decent enough.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Apr 2019
at 18:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can from Hoptimism. Hazy golden colour with a white head. Aroma has light tropical fruit, and pine hints. Taste dry and fruity. Light body.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Mar 2019
at 16:34
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
23rd March 2019
Can. Light haze on this gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. Light malts, medium sweet. Smooth piney dominated citrus, some pith and peel bittermess. Piney citric finish. Mild spicy bitter peel linger. Decent and drinkable, but a couple of shadp edges.
Can. Light haze on this gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. Light malts, medium sweet. Smooth piney dominated citrus, some pith and peel bittermess. Piney citric finish. Mild spicy bitter peel linger. Decent and drinkable, but a couple of shadp edges.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Mar 2019
at 18:28
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home thanks to James, 09/03/19. Cherry red with a faded crimson cap. Nose is pink berry sherbets, straw, raspberry pips, grass. Taste comprises tangy raspberry, straw, grains, sharp res berries, stale bread, lemon rind. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a light pucker. Decent refresher.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Mar 2019
at 18:03
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home thanks to James, 09/03/19. Golden yellow with a decent white head. Nose is grassy, pine needle, citric tinged straw, tangerine. Taste comprises orange wine gums, melon, grass, toasted, pine resin, grapefruit. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with balanced leafy hop bitterness. Solid hoppy sessioner for the ABV.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Mar 2019
at 18:02
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Mar 2019
at 18:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Can.Hazy yellow colour with small white head.Aroma of citrus,tangerine and pineapple fruity and mild bitter with mild dry finish.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Mar 2019
at 13:41
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2019
at 20:18
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
25th Feb 2019. True Craft, Tottenham. Keg half-pint. Cloudy yellow pour, smooth white blanket on top. Very highly carbonated, almost 'fizzy'. Loads of tropical fruits in both the nose and taste, leaning towards a sweetness rather than a lemon/grapefruit sourness/bitterness. Liked it, a fruity 'smoothie' sort of brew.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2019
at 13:55
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle picked up from Tesco, consumed at home whilst cooking Smoky Frittata, from Plenty Cookbook Tuesday 26th February 2019 and listening to Marc Riley, Evening Session, 6Music. Pours hazy gold with a white head. Fruity though cannot easily discern the flavour. It's fine but just a little thin. It's ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2019
at 20:09