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.
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Not my cup of tea as the wheat imparted an odd flavour and texture to the beer that I really didn’t enjoy.
Tried
on 03 Apr 2017
at 07:14
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the brewery taproom. Pours clear yellow with a fine, creamy white head. Dank citrus in the nose, some cat pee, melon, tangerine, pine. Light sweet flavour with more dank citrus, lime, grapefruit, piss, mild bitterness. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Dinaihes with mellow resin, more dankness, piney hops, rindy bitterness, lime and grapefruit. Nice one.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Feb 2017
at 13:07
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the brewery taproom. Pours clear yellow-gold with a creamy, white head. The nose has some citrus fruits, ripe lemon, pale bread. Light sweet flavour with hints of oily pine, more pale bread, lemon peel. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Decent balance in the finish, with more citrus fruits, soft resin, pale sugars. Easygoing stuff. Not bad.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Feb 2017
at 13:04
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the brewery taproom. Pours clear copper-brown with a creamy, off-white head. Hints of smoked malt in the nose, some toasted toffee, mellow cocoa. Light sweet flavour with bland roastted malt character, some minerality, burnt leaves, vague cocoa. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Quite dry in the finish, faintly ashy, with burnt toast, minerals, weak cocoa. So so overall.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Feb 2017
at 12:46
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Keg at the brewery taproom. Pours clear pale yellow with a creamy, white head. Some dry cereal in the nose, grains, lemon peel. Light sweet flavour with an off ashy bite, more lemon peel, crisp cereal. Light bodied with average carbonation. Dry finish with minerals and more odd ash, more crisp cereal, faint citrus peel. Mediocre.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Feb 2017
at 12:43
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Keg at the brewery taproom. Pours hazy gold with a creamy, white head. The aroma definitely has some raspberry, along with dry wheat bread, some lemony accents. Light sweet flavour with subtly jammy raspberry, more wheat bread, minimal bitterness. Light bodied with average carbonation. Nicely balanced finish, with a pleasant mix of understated raspberry and lightly dried wheat bread. Easygoing and very drinkable.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Feb 2017
at 12:26
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Keg at the brewery taproom. Pours mostly clear matte yellow with a frothy, white head. The aroma holds pithy grapefruit, lemon rind, crispy pale malts. Light sweet flavour, quite dry, with some flinty minerals, more citrus peel, pine needles. Light bodied with average carbonation. Clean finish, drying, with more pithy grapefruit, lemon rind, dried pale malts. Solid SIPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Feb 2017
at 12:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from the London Food Centre, Holborn. Pours slight hazy amber colour with an initially large off-white head, diminishing to a long-lasting 2-3mm. Aroma is moderately hopped, nice level of citrus, touch of caramel. Light sweetness, medium to heavy bitterness. Medium body, slight oily texture, slightly above average carbonation. Finish is bitter, with touch of citrus/sour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2017
at 15:36
6/10
Tried
on 07 Jan 2017
at 10:12
6/10
Tried
on 07 Jan 2017
at 09:16