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.
6.1/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Tesco. Chestnut in colour, with a large, foaming, white head. Sweet, slightly bready malts, caramel, berry fruits, a touch of toast, some leafy hops and a moderately bitter finish. Fine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2018
at 15:17
6.4/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Tesco. Golden in colour, with a huge, foaming, white head. Yeasty malts, tangerine and apricot fruits, some citrus hops and a dryish finish. A good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2018
at 14:59
7.5/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
44cl Can, tfs Harmen! Straight from the can, road soda pre-AmenRa. Aroma of loads of citrus, grapefruit, passion fruit, lemon, peach, malts, caramel. Flavour is light to medium sweet, malty, grapefruit, citrus, some nettles, pine, tropical fruits, decent bitter finish. Light to medium bodied. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Oct 2018
at 12:28
6.8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml bottle from a local store. Shared with Finn. Fawn-coloued head over a jet black body. Spotty lacing. Dark doughy smell, hints of chocolate. Taste of liquorice, ash, and chocolate. Smoothly roasted malt to the ending. Tasty. (Hotel room, Hackney, London 27.09.2018).
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2018
at 13:08
5.9/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330ml bottle from a local store. Shared with Finn. Firm white head over a cloudy yellow-gold body. Lacing rings. Aroma of citrus drops. Taste of lemony hops with an impact of biscuit. Fruity bitter endnotes. Soft in the mouth. Quite refreshing. (Hotel room, Hackney, London 27.09.2018).
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2018
at 13:04
6.5/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy blond colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have some grass and citrus peel. Quite easy and refreshing
Tried
on 09 Oct 2018
at 19:30
6.4/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Red brown colour with quick fading head. Aroma has some apple. Flavour has quite a heavy roasted bitterness. Like treacle toffee.
Tried
on 09 Oct 2018
at 18:40
6.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy blond with fluffy head. Aroma and flavour have some soft wheaty notes. Light floral hops. Moderately bitter. Easy going and sessionable
Tried
on 09 Oct 2018
at 16:52
6.5/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
33cl bottle from Tesco, Amersham. A hazy pale amber pour with a thin white head; grassy aroma; citrus bitterness and a sweetish body; then a dry grassy finish. Pleasant enough, but nothing special.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2018
at 17:52
6.5/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from Tesco, Brooklands. Aroma: a mixture of hops and dark fruit. A sourness to it. Opaque dark brown. Thin off-white head recedes quickly. Mesium bitter. Hops and roast. Some underlying maltiness. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Fizzy carbonation. Long dry finish. Is it a bitter? I guess a modern hoppy interpretation. Not too bad. Has character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2018
at 18:48