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Blue Scrumpy left this review about High Hill
After the nearby Renegade Urban Winery, we finished our tour of the Blackhorse Mile brewery bars with High Hill, the home of Hackney Brewery.
Indoor seating is in the bar area itself and also in an area within the brewery itself. Service is once again from the bar, where the full list of Hackney and guest beers can be found. All are craft beers, with the selection being Hackney High Hill, Lager, Millions of Peaches, Kapow, Boogie Van, Bump, Mysterious Spectre, Millions of Pink Lemonade, Release The Night & Superbolt, Hackney/Left Hand Spy v Spy, Hackney/Wild East Sitting On The Top Deck, Kernel Simcoe Strata, Brew York Fairytale of Brew York, Mammoth Wax Pale Ale, Turning Point Reverend Green, Donzoko Lil Foam & The Real Al Co. Crafty Rhubarb Cider.
Not a bad place, but I preferred some of the other breweries on the estate.
On 24th January 2023
- rating: 5
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Steve of N21 left this review about High Hill
The marketing person’s who are currently trying to convince everyone that the current six brewery taprooms in industrial estates off the Blackhorse Lane constitutes a “Beer Mile” are clearly men as it is about 0.4 of a mile between the Truman’s Social Club and the Hackney Brewery High Hill to give it its full name, and this one will either be the first or last one depending if you are going North or South.
A fairly recent edition initially opening earlier this year when we were first allowed to sit outside after lockdown, Although its official opening is not till the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of October, I had been targeting a visit here for a while. Unfortunately the experience left me all a bit flat.
There is a large outside courtyard space with bench seating that looks like it could seat a couple of hundred , mostly out in the open but a few tables under shelters around the edges. Then there is further bench seating for about a 100 internally and although there is a large screen at the far end, presumably for sport, it’s all a bit sterile and lacking in any character. And none more so than the bar room itself, which is off to the right of the internal space, which we duly marched into and stared in confusion at a white tiled tap wall with 20 identical green taps and no identification of what was on them. Then at this point we are told that the beer list is on the tables and its table service only after ordering through a mobile phone app. Now personally, having to order beers through a mobile phone app sucks a fair amount of the enjoyment out of drinking experience and should only be the last resort when were not allowed to stand next to another human being. Fortunately the barman recognised our pain and as it was not too busy came out and took a verbal order off us after we had perused the beer list.
And in that respect when we start talking about the beer list then it gets better. Twenty craft beers on the list with 8 from Hackney and offerings from other breweries such as Burning Sky, Verdant, Orbit and Wylem included in the other 12.
Couldn’t fault the beer, although sadly this looks like another small brewery that has abandoned the cask product, but just didn’t get any great vibe from drinking them here.
On 17th September 2021
- rating: 5
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