Hackney Church Brew Co, Walthamstow, E17

Visited 02/09/26 No cask. Keg options of all their own Extra Time golden ale, Chihuahua Mexican lager, Fleeced NZ IPA, Culinary Crime Hawaiian pizza beer (whatever that is), Reptilian Picnic hazy IPA, British Summer Time Italian pilsner, Exodus hazy IPA, Gazpacho from Hell, Nevermore Nitro stout, Banana for Scale banana & blueberry milkshake sour, Renaissance pale ale, Son of a Nutcracker pastry stout, Superfly west coast IPA, Wyld Stallyn session lager, Ascension Koln lager and Pucker Up blackberry & lemon sour. L-shaped tap room at the side of their brewing premises on the Blackhorse Road. Concrete floor with the bar counter, a colourful tiled affair on the shorter rear wall side with tall stool seating at the bar counter. Church pew on the left-hand wall just inside the entrance and some bench seating outside at the front. Some leather benches around the front right-hand corner serving regular tables with ornate carved church style chairs the other side thereof. Round the right-hand side of the bar counter is a larger seating area with some church pews and indeed there is a pulpit (not available to drinkers) for decorative purposes and internal windows provide a view to the brewery facilities. No screens and an 80's rock-based soundtrack playing on my visit.

Newly relocated brewery in a pair of modern industrial-estate units on the Blackhorse Beer Mile. Features a L-shaped bar, but if the blue decor here doesn't appeal, there are a number of canteen-style tables next door and outside at the front. The brewing vessels can been seen at the back, and with 15 of the 16 taps in use, there was plenty of choice with beers in different styles and higher strengths than my conventional Golden Ale (£3.30, half).