Wild Card Brewery

Microbrewery in Walthamstow, London, Greater London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2012

Closed in 2024

Contact
2 Lockwood Way, London, E17 5RB, England
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.

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6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty weak hoppy citrus aroma. Fruity malty citrus hoppy weak grassy flavor. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy finish.
Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2015 at 08:59

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle from Sourced Market St Pancras and drunk at home. Clear gold lasting white head. Some grassy hop aroma. Touch of peach fruit. As a slightly interesting slightly hoppy slightly fruity golden ale. Clean touch of caramel on aroma. Decent carbonation and mouthfeel. Some bite on the finish. OK.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Apr 2015 at 12:49

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Bottle at Chriso Tasting, thanks to Chriso, 04/04/15. Orange/golden with a decent off white covering. Nose is citric sherbets, orange pith, straw, earthy hop presence. Taste comprises caramel malt, bitter orange, light bread, straw, faint spice. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok but no great for the style.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Apr 2015 at 16:35

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle at chrisO... Golden yellow white head.... Soft light fruits... Floral nose... Juicy fruits.. Zezty fruits...
Tried from Bottle on 03 Apr 2015 at 16:26

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
28th March 2015: cask pint at the brewery. Decent stuff. Black body, the brewery is dark inside and it was difficult to gauge the true colour, it’s dark though honest. The head was a beige wisp and collar. Malts, over roasted malts and semi-sweet in nature rule the brew from start to finish. Mild fruity notes mid-sip but mostly maltiness in big waves.
Tried from Cask on 01 Apr 2015 at 10:11

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; clear golden yellow pour with a bubbly white head, sweet malt and light citrus aroma, taste has a hint of lemon, some floral action, sweet honey, pale malts. --- Beer merged from original tick of King Of Hearts on 24 Mar 2015 at 20:44 - Score: 6
Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2015 at 15:43

5.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle from Hopology, Nottingham. Deep dark almost black with no head. Poverty light aroma with caramel and fruity malt. Taste is a touch watery, with a fruity sweetness.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2015 at 12:26

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at Pigs Ear 2014 - London. Pours dark brown with a creamy light tan head. The nose has notes of minerals, light roasted malts and cocoa. Light-medium sweet flavor with some old leather, dried dark fruits, earth. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Moderate sweetness in the finish with light dried dark fruits, bitter chocolate. OK.
Tried from Cask on 13 Mar 2015 at 16:03

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask at Pigs Ear 2014 - London. Pours clear yellow with a white froth head. The nose holds simple pale malts, light minerals, straw. Light sweet flavor with a bit of lemon hop character, some chlorine, smokey minerals. Light bodied with fine carbonation; OK condition. Lightly sweet on the finish with some fairly juicy citrus, more lemon. Not bad.
Tried from Cask on 13 Mar 2015 at 16:01

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines. Dark Amber colour with a white head. Aroma has no,t caramel and pine hops. Taste slightly sweet. Palate is thick.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Jan 2015 at 14:34