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.
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
330ml bottle. Poured a clear yellow golden colour with a lasting fizzy white head a few bubbles. The aroma is malt, fake sugar, citrus fruits, light hop. The flavour is moderate bitter, light sweet, with a light, slightly watery, crisp, fresh fruity, dry hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with average carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2018
at 14:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can at home in Hackney - picked up at Clapton Craft. Pours lightly hazy gold with a foamy, white head. Not bad, albeit quite dry and flinty, some some bitter lemon peel, grass, crispy pale grains, straw. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Lots of flinty minerality in the finish, some pine needles, more citrus peel. Drinkable but could certainly be better.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Nov 2018
at 20:39
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from Hoptimism. Orange colour with a thin white head. Aroma has lots of passion fruit juice and citrus hints. Taste light salt to sweet passion fruit. Medium to full body.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Nov 2018
at 20:27
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
28th October 2018
Can. Very hazy gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is fairly dry and minerally crisp. Thin malts bring a modicum of sweetness. Hops have a slighty pithy front edge. Pine and citric peel ensue, modest bittermess. Dry and bitterish finish brings an unexpected touch of bitterish melon. It's alright but could be brighter and a sweeter malt base would not go amiss.
Can. Very hazy gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is fairly dry and minerally crisp. Thin malts bring a modicum of sweetness. Hops have a slighty pithy front edge. Pine and citric peel ensue, modest bittermess. Dry and bitterish finish brings an unexpected touch of bitterish melon. It's alright but could be brighter and a sweeter malt base would not go amiss.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Oct 2018
at 18:18
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can from Cotteridge Wines; hazy golden yellow pour with a bubbly white head, aroma has big pine, taste has peach, big pine, tropical fruit action, ok
Tried
from Can
on 27 Oct 2018
at 18:12
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught @ #RHBCF2018 🧙🍻🇬🇧 [ The 11th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival (The 43th. Nottingham CAMRA Beer and Cider Festival) ], The Motorpoint Arena, Bolero Square, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 1LA.
[ As Wild Card NEIPA ].
ABV: 5.4%. Murky matt medium yellow colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, grapefruit, sweet fruit, minerals. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a long duration, fruity hops, citrus - grapefruit, minerals, pale malt, medium dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20181020]
7-3-8-3-15
Tried
on 23 Oct 2018
at 09:45
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle thanks to allmyvinyl. Appearance - hazy golden orange. Nice lacing. Nose - mango and tangerine. Taste - less of the fruit. Just a suggestion of orange, nothing more. Palate - light bodied and creamy. Clean enough on the finish. Overall - decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Oct 2018
at 12:47
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Tesco shared with Ashton McCobb. Pours hazy golden with a thick white head. Aromas of light citrus and pale malt, tangerine. Taste is light bitter, light malt. Slightly thin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Oct 2018
at 12:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Tesco. Golden in colour, and slightly hazy, with a large, foaming, white head. Light, citrus hop, white pepper aroma. Tangerine and apricot fruits, white bread malt flavour leading to a dryish finish with a touch of hop. A good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2018
at 18:26
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Can from Cotteridge Wines; hazy yellow pour with a frothy white head, aroma has tangerine and malts, taste has biscuity malts, citrus, some grapefruit, basic.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Oct 2018
at 17:40