Signature Brew, E17

Surprising large brewery, with a number of tall outdoor tanks dominating the streetscape. The more modest tap is to be found in a black single-storey unit at the front, with a distractingly large, multi-coloured display screen above the bar. I found a total eight of their beers - including the Roadie session IPA (£6.60) on the 12 taps on the bar-back plus four more fonts on the counter, along with a couple of ciders.

Visited 23/04/26 No cask, the two hand pulls on the bar counter look like they have long been decorative! Keg offering of their own brews, the Studio Lager, the Roadie session IPA, the Backstage IPA, the Haze Machine hazy pale, the Black Vinyl nitro stout, and the Lo-Fi AF pale. They also offered the Henry Weston's vintage cider, the In Bloom Passion Fruit Berliner at a low abv, the Honey & Ginger Nectar from Gosnells and a couple of cocktails on tap. Large brewing premises with the tap room at the front side of the site. There is some bench seating outside the entrance, inside it is concrete flooring with the bar counter in the rear left-hand corner. Banquette seating down both sides and wrapping around the rear right-hand corner, all providing seating to tall tables with tall, backed stools the other side thereof. There are a few stand-alone tall tables down the middle with one in the glass frontage. A bright red neon sign on the rear wall proclaims, "Long Live Beer and Music", with the image in the centre depicting what looks like a very merry Dusty Bin! Think we can all sign up to that motto! No screens and a high tempo music soundtrack. There is an upstairs terrace that I didn't go and check as I was quite happy being out of the direct sun!

Something a little different here, where they've gone for a shipping container vibe, which at least makes a change from the standard light industrial aesthetic which predominates in these places. They've done their best to create a pub-style feel to the small square box with a mixture of low and high tables. Signature is no more than a minutes walk from Pretty Decent but, while this is genuinely a much better place for a drink (putting aside the dreary surroundings outside), I'd say the beer's inferior. The bar offer 5 lines of home brew, plus a similar number of guests, though this may just be the Oktoberfest thing going on. I was certainly taken aback by the price of my initial selection and quickly switched to a more reasonably priced Signature IPA. A couple of hand pumps adorn the bar, but they weren't in action on this visit. To me, this is more of a stop and neck it kind of place, rather than a linger and try the range venue. I probably wouldn't bother if I ever found myself thirsty on a light industrial estate in the Walthamstow area some time in the future.

A fairly decent though smallish taproom set in a corner adjacent to the brewer. There were five Signature beers on, I had a Black Vinyl Stout, also a guest beer, Verdant Whale Shark. It was very busy on my Sunday visit with a music gig going on elsewhere in the extended venue, this unfortunately led to queuing at the bar but was unavoidable. All in all a neat little venue.