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.
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Gravity cask at Pigs Ear '23, day two, 29/11/23. Black topped with a khaki head. Nose is light smoke, charr, dried fruit rinds, raisins, dates, chocolate. Taste comprises dark malts, light roast, chocolate, spice, fruit cake mix, dates, whisky kiss, molasses, light charr. Medium bodied with bite, soft carbonation, semi drying close with a kiss of booze. Solid cask Impy stout.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Dec 2023
at 17:30
8/10
cask at pigs ear ...dark black ..thin tan lacing ..soft sweet meaty chocolate dry chocolate Roast malts ..sweet chocolate ..big whisky ..dark rich chocolate
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Nov 2023
at 13:01
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Gravity cask at Pigs Ear 2023, day 2 - London. Pours oily black, little to no head. Big sweet flavour, lots of stewed dark berries, raisins, plums, blackberry, gooey chocolate, mellow booze, burnt wood. Full bodied, thick and chewy, with fine carbonation. Warming finish, sticky, rich dark malts, more dark fruits. Tasty.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Nov 2023
at 20:22
7/10
Tried
on 29 Nov 2023
at 19:27
6/10
Thin, light, soft
Tried
from Can
on 28 Oct 2023
at 22:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can at JDW Ritz, Lincoln. Pale hazy golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are light citrus fruity and slight zesty. Crisp body.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Oct 2023
at 17:14
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Golden colour with a mediumsized fluffy white head. Aroma is herbal and floral hops with mild fruits and some grassy elements. Flacur is biscuity, some toffee with mild herbal, floral and fruity elements with a slight dry wooden element to it. Nicely dry palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2023
at 17:04
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can (from Ales By Mail). HAzy yellow colour with a small white head, but a quite rich carbonation. Aroma is elderflower, rhubarb, mild sourness as well as some lemongrass and mild sweet malts. Flavour is bready malts, some lemongrass, rhubarn and mild tartness. Long tartish lemongrassy finish.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Sep 2023
at 17:45
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. Appearance - cloudy yellow and a white head. Nose - orange, melon and mango skin. Taste - sweet orange and melon, possibly going into mango again. Palate - medium bodied, creamy and sweet middle, gently balanced finish. Overall - nice.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Sep 2023
at 19:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
The Richmal Crompton (JDW), Bromley 01/08/2023 Citrus fruity and sweet bready malty with some lemon, straw, hay, cereal, light to medium bodied with soft carb mouthfeel, bitter edged hoppy close.
Tried
on 04 Sep 2023
at 05:35