Beer is now leaving the brewery

We have now started selling beer, so casks are leaving the brewery. We are trying to tweet about as many of these as we can, and give as much information, but we cannot always know when the beers will go on, so please do check with the free house yourself.

The best way to keep up to date, is to keep an eye on our Outlets tab on the main website, where we list all free-houses, bottle shops and beer festivals we are suppling.

If you do find our beers out there, please do let us know what you think, feedback is always helpful.

The Bull Stout and Oyster festival

We have sent our very first cask out of the brewery to our friends at The Bull in Highgate for their Stout and Oyster festival. This will be taking place over St Patrics day weekend, starting Thursday 14th March to the Sunday.

There will be a great selection of locally brewed stouts. And no double Gregg and Bryan will be around to sample these themselves, most likely Friday evening and Sunday if there is any left.

We are brewing!

It has been very busy at the brewery over the last few weeks. Not everything is 100% set up and working, but I guess the fact that we are now brewing counts as news.

So far we have brewed and bottle 2 special beers, Boring Brown Beer, and Miss the lights. And have Black Perle and Mariana Trench from our core range sat in fermenters. These beers should be out in the wild soon, so keep a look out.

Meet the brewer at the Magpie and Crown

While we are still waiting patiently for the brewery to be installed, we do have a couple of keykegs of our collaboration brew with London Brewing Co. Shark Biscuit kicking around.

We will be cracking one of these and talking a bit about our beers to come at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford on Friday 22nd February at 7pm.

Week 1 build pictures.

We first applied for a lease way back in January 2012. It has been a long long wait, but earlier this week we finally signed on a unit in Hanwell, and collected the keys late on Thursday. Friday was our first day in the unit, and I’m sure there will be a blog about that soon.

But to start with we thought it would be a god idea to take a series of pictures each week, and post them, to track progress. So here is the first weeks pictures.

This is the view looking in from just outside of the large roller shutter at the front of the unit. It shows the main area, where the brew house and packing area will be. Try to ignore the suns glare that looks like a shard of glass.

This is again from just outside the roller shutter, but this time looking directly inside at where the cool room will be, and the gap in the mezzanine we will be using for loading.

This is the view from the gap in the mezzanine, looking down at the main brew house area.

 This is from inside the mezzanine area, looking at the current office area and hole to the main area.

Again on the mezzanine, but this time looking from the hole in the wall. 

The last picture is of a random bike with a siren attached, kindly left by the previous tenant. It also shows the back room which will be the fermenting room. You can also see the door to the mezzanine.The kitchen and WC is just out of sight on the left. Next time i may include a picture showing this.

We hope to be pushing forward at a pace now, as the 10bbl brew house, along with 4 shiny new fermenters should be with us by the end of November. But until next week, keep fighting the good fight and drinking the good stuff.

our first collaboration

On Wednesday this week Gregg and Bryan from Weird Beard Brew Co. were invited up to The Bull brewpub in Highgate for our very first commercial collaboration brew. It was decided to brew an IPA with Aussie hops, which we have decided to call Shark Biscuit.

There will be a launch night for this beer on Tuesday 9^th October, at The Bull in Highgate, where you can try the keg and cask versions side by side. There will also hopefully be a few key kegs for sale, contact Dan at the Bull for info.

Full details to follow, but we look forward to seeing you all there.

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