Closed brewery
Original site: Cock Tavern, 315 Mare Street E8 1EJ (Hackney)
Second and last site: 214 Ponsford Street E9 6JU (Hackney)
First sold beer: September 2015 (at original site)
Ceased brewing: January 2019
After Howling Hops shifted production from its original home in the cellar of Hackney’s Cock Tavern to a much bigger facility at its Hackney Wick tank bar in June 2015, the pub’s assistant manager Ian Morton took over the old brewhouse, still housed in the pub but now run as a separate business. As Ian was first inspired to homebrew while living in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, he named the new project Maregade as a part-Danish translation of Mare Street (Hoppegade might have been even more appropriate).
Following early success, Ian suspended brewing at the Cock in November 2017 and resumed in March 2018 with a bigger kit in a Homerton railway arch, not far from the cluster of arch-based beer venues along Hackney’s Bohemia Place. But planning and licensing problems frustrated attempts to establish a regular taproom, and the brewery ceased trading early in 2019.
Meanwhile, the brewery at the Cock was returned to use by Howling Hops under the name Short Stack.
Updated 6 January 2020
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