Brewpub, brewing currently suspended
Original site: 395 Mentmore Terrace E8 3PH (Hackney)
Current site: E5 Poplar Bakehouse, 2 Cotall Street E14 6TL (Tower Hamlets)
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First sold beer: December 2017 (at original site)
Brewing suspended: March 2020
This specialist bakery is noted for making its own kvass, a low alcohol beer popular in eastern Europe. Master baker Simone began brewing at the firm’s site near London Fields in 2017, working in 50-60 l batches using leftover rye and spelt bread, sugar or honey and a sourdough starter.
Brewing was suspended during the Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020 and the equipment moved in 2021 to another, bigger, site, at the foot of a new residential block overlooking the Limehouse Cut canal. The London Fields site still operates as a bakery and café.
The intention was to revive brewing in 2022 but while this didn’t happen, since December 2022 the bakery has been collaborating with the Kernel on several kvass beers made in Bermondsey from waste bread supplied by E5.
Beer is sold at both sites subject to availability. Besides bottles, some has been produced in keg or dispensed direct from the fermenter.
Updated 5 May 2023.
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