Lockwood Tap Bar, Higham Hill, E17

The Wild Card brewery were the first kids on the block when they expanded their brewing here from their much smaller premises on the other side of Walthamstow (now called The Barrel Store), a few years ago. This is a fairly standard industrial unit brewery set up. Some limited bench seating externally and you enter to find the bar on your right and then steps lead up to a mezzanine floor where the internal seating is, with the brewing equipment occupying the rest of the ground floor space. Unfortunately we didn’t visit this one at its best as they were having trouble with the coolers and only a single lager was available and some expensive tins in the fridge. Sadly also I didn’t see any evidence of hand pumps and the reason I used to like visiting their initial premises was because they usually had their signature range available from cask. But it now looks like this is another small brewery that has dispensed with cask and its crafty keg only now. Presently this one opens at 5pm on a Thursday and Friday and 12 noon at the weekend.

Official site of Lockwood Tap Bar - www.wildcardbrewery.co.uk

Official site of Lockwood Tap Bar - www.wildcardbrewery.co.uk