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.
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Tap. Murky brownish orange with a white head. 3- Tropical grassy aroma with mango, v ripe pineapple, herbs, grass clippings. Vague palate. Sweet with lumbering tropical fruit before some burn cuts through. Low bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Jul 2024
at 23:30
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(tap 1/2 pint @ brewery) Hazy golden. Persistent white head. Citrusy hops, light onion, light grassy. Ok.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 May 2024
at 19:36
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a hazy pale yellow colour with a small diminishing white head. Aroma is citrusy, grapefruit. A moderately sweet and light bitter taste, pale malts and grapefruit flavours with some bitterness in the finish.
Tried
on 25 May 2024
at 12:20
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 26 Apr 2024
at 22:38
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Mar 2024
at 12:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On tap (keg) at Crown & Anchor nr Euston Station Tuesday 26th March 2024. Pours hazy dirty yellow with a white head. Soft mouthfeel, sweet and with a nod to tropical'ness'. Pleasant without wowing me.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Mar 2024
at 17:39
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Elusive Taproom, Finchampstead, Berks. A very dark brown/black coloured pour with a huge beige head on top. Roasty, malty, chocolate, pine taste and aroma. Decent black IPA from Elusive.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Mar 2024
at 22:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Svart. Lavt beige skum. Sjokoladearoma. Hint av tropisk frukt i en kakaodominert smak. Tørr - forsiktig bitter avslutning.
Tried
on 15 Mar 2024
at 14:06
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared in London - many thanks to Kenny! Pours black-brown with a bubbly, tan head. Medium sweet flavour with rich burnt malts, ash, iodine, peat, dark chocolate, mellow scorched earth. Medium to full bodied, lightly oily, with fine carbonation. Mild boozy warmth to finish, but more peat, ash, cocoa, raisins. Sound.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2024
at 21:28
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can online from Elusive Brewery. Pours deep brown towards black with tan foam. Deep roast, bitter chocolate, light coffee, some ash, dark berries, pine. Light to moderate sweet & moderate bitter. Medium body with soft carbonation. Decent
Tried
from Can
on 03 Mar 2024
at 20:42