Author: Bill Bremner

10 of us set off on a very sunny Saturday to ride around some east and north east London’s Breweries –as well as old favourites we found a no. of new brew sites! Crossing river Lee we passed old favourites inc Crate & Howling hops to cross Victoria park (& a family marathon in park!) to Old street brewery in Bethnal green –new to us last year. Passing Boxcar –soon to reopen, we stopped for first sample at new Mechanic Brewery also in Bethnal green.

Travelling north now the day started to really heat up passing more Hackney breweries we headed for Lee navigation canal where we rode up to Hale brewery near Markfield park –they actually brew in a shipping container –very micro! Back up canal past Beavertown who were holding a ticketed beer festival we had our lunch stop at Pressure drop brewery –however promised food was not there! after some negotiation some procured food from tasty Beavertown stalls.

Then past new brewery Ora and onto new site for One mile end brewery & Redemption –both in Tottenham. –back across canal and Tottenham marshes to new site of Wild card –next to a retro scooter shop in north Walthamstow. Past alcohol free brewery Nirvana, four more in Leyton before a stop at another new brewery Gravity well for more sampling. We spoke to keen staff at Solvay Society tap room in E11 –brewers of Belgian style beers! We passed Pretty Decent brewery in E7 to our final stop at Woodgrange market where Forest Gayte festival was in full flight and to sample Pretty Decent brew!

Prize for best dressed bike must go to Anita -8 made it back to E7 after a very hot day of riding 23 miles and 28 breweries! -see list below

Bill

	brewery	location	tap room/notes	web
1	Trumans	E3 2NT	no	https://www.trumansbeer.co.uk/
2	Crate	E9 5EW	y	https://cratebrewery.com/
3	Howling hops	E9 5EN	y	https://www.howlinghops.co.uk/
4	Laine	E9 7BT	ceased?	https://www.peoplesparktavern.pub/brewery
6	old st	Arch 11 Gales Gardens, London E2 0EJ	y	https://oldstreet.beer/
7	boxcar	Unit 1 Birkbeck St, London E2 6JY	tap not yet open	https://www.boxcarbrewery.co.uk/
8	mechanic	Railway Arches, 22A Cudworth St, London E1 5QU	stop	https://www.mechanicbrewery.co.uk/
9	Three sods	E2 6NB	ceased?	https://www.threesodsbrewery.com/about-us
10	Forest rd	8 Netil Ln, London E8 3RL	y	https://www.forestroad.co.uk/
11	London fields	365-366 Warburton St, London E8 3RR	tap not yet open	https://www.londonfieldsbrewery.co.uk/agegate
12	church	E8 1JE	y	https://www.hackneychurchbrew.co/
13	Deviant & Dandy	Arch 184 Nursery Rd, London E9 6PB	y	http://deviantanddandy.com/
14	Hale at five miles	39b Markfield Road, London, N15 4QA	y	https://twitter.com/halebrewing?lang=en
15	Beavertown	N17 9QP	y	https://www.beavertownbrewery.co.uk/home/
16	Pressure drop	Unit 6, Lockwood Industrial Park, Mill Mead Rd, London N17 9QP	lunch stop	https://pressuredropbrewing.co.uk/tottenham-taproom
17	Ora	Unit 16a, Rosebery Industrial Park, London N17 9SR	y	http://www.orabeer.com/en/
18	Redemption Brewing Company	16, Compass West Estate, West Rd, Tottenham, London N17 0XL	n	http://www.redemptionbrewing.co.uk/
19	One Mile End	2, Compass West Estate, 32 West Rd, Tottenham, London N17 0XL	n	http://onemileend.co/
20	Wild card	2 Lockwood Way, Walthamstow, London E17 5RB	y	https://www.wildcardbrewery.co.uk/about
21	Nirvana	Unit T6, Leyton Industrial Village, Argall Avenue, Walthamstow, London E10 7QP	n	https://www.nirvanabrewery.com/
22	Neckstamper	Unit 3, Cromwell Industrial Estate, Staffa Rd, Walthamstow, London E10 7QZ	y	https://www.neckstamper.com/
23	Magic spells	24 Rigg Approach, Leyton, London, E10 7QN	y	http://www.magicspellsbrewery.co.uk/ourbeers.html
24	ELB	E10 7QB	n	https://www.eastlondonbrewing.com/
25	Signature brew	E10 7BT	y	https://www.signaturebrew.co.uk/
26	Gravity Well	Arch 142 Tilbury Rd, Leyton, London E10 6RE	y	https://www.gravitywellbrewing.co.uk/beers
27	Solvay Society Taproom	223 Dyers Hall Railway Arches, London E11 4AF	y	http://www.solvaysociety.com/taproom/
28	Pretty Decent	338 Sheridan Rd, London E7 9EF	y	https://www.prettydecentbeer.co/
	Woodgrange market	E7	stop

10 of us set off in fair weather on Sunday from View tube bikes in the edge of the Olympic park –along Channelsea path (once a canal) leading to the greenway up the excellent new ramp at Abbey lane –here we passed Abbey creek –leading to the Chanelsea river. We rode the greenway (river of sewage?) as far as we could to Becton & the Gallions reach shopping park, skirting the new developments we caught our first sight of the Thames. Following the river path we passed through Gallions point Marina, Royal Victoria Gardens to arrive early for the first Woolwich ferry of the day. The new Ferries have a separate section now for bikes that easily catered for our group and other cyclists using the crossing with us –they even have a seated area sheltered area for cyclists –we did not need as sun had come out and we enjoyed views up and down the Thames.

After disembarking we followed the river path and Quietway 14 using the new bypass section that kept us away from the busy Woolwich rd –leading us to the Thames barrier off road!

QW14 lead us on past Greenwich Yacht club, many new developments as well as industrial areas along some excellent cycle paths to our lunch stop at the cafe under the Emirates cable car –here we lost a couple of riders –one heading back to Bexley the other taking the cable care (for the first time ) back to Newham.

On past the O2 only one small path diversion remained before cutting through the old Naval college in the University of Greenwich, past the Cutty Sark to take the foot Tunnel back across river to Isle of Dogs. Passing through island gardens we continued along the Thames path, passing beach at Amsterdam rd, over blue bridge onto East India dock basin (see second photo) We decided to divert into the new development London City Island surrounded by the River Lee meander through the Bow ecology park then over Newham way to Cody dock for a brief comfort break.

Following  Bow Creek we used the steep bridge to rejoin the River Lee past three Mills, back to Olympic park to end of ride back on the Greenway

An easy 20ish mile ride with many riders discovering new places – even after many years in the area!

Sorry no map as I had a technology malfunction(S)!

Thanks for Arnie for back marking & Nigel at view tube bikes for start photo (thanks also Nigel for checking over some bikes before ride!)

Bill

11 of us set of from view tube on a gloriously sunny day forgoing the royal wedding for a tour of east end breweries – with only the ride leader dressing for the occasion (thanks Anita for loan of bridal headgear!) We past Mason & co (tap room for Five points brewery) and looked down on Westfield (home of tap east brewery) before meeting up with two other riders at Pretty Decent brewery in Forest gate (& a quick refreshment stop!) we then skirted Wanstead flats to travel north to Wild card & Pillars breweries for a lunch stop (taking in the amazing ‘gods own junkyard’ and ‘the big al’ beer & cider shop on same estate) we then headed east taking in a few breweries before stopping for a thirst quencher at London Fields brewery tap room.

With only one slight off road tumble (not beer related!) and one puncture -unfortunately as in rear wheel of a brompton the rider left us at that point -mechanically the ride otherwise went well!

Passing new breweries sites of Margade Boxcar & Pit cue we headed back east to end at Howling hops/ crate breweries where group split before returning to Olympic park (some even made it back for the cup final! )

Thanks to Nigel & Steve for pics

Steves Photos