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 |