Brewery
45 Fairways Business Centre, Lammas Road E10 7QB (Waltham Forest)
eastlondonbrewing.com
First sold beer: September 2011
Former research and development chemist Stu Lascelles switched career paths in the autumn of 2011 by setting up East London Brewing (sometimes known as ELB) with his wife Claire Ashbridge-Thomlinson. The first in what’s now a developing cluster of beer producers around Lea Bridge station, it began with a 16 hl plant and open fermenters installed by Dave Porter of PBC in a single unit on an industrial estate between the railway and the Lee Valley Park.
It’s since expanded into two other adjacent units. In July 2019, the installation was upgraded to a 40 hl kit with improved fermenters supplied by Johnson Brewing Design. The new head brewer, Adrian Morales-Maillo, is formerly of Naparbier in Barcelona.
Due to the limitations of the site, the brewery is open only for occasional open days and special events but sells beer to take away during normal working hours. An offsite taproom is planned for 2022.
East London initially brewed mainly cask beers and the format still accounts for 60% of its output. Most beers are also available bottled or canned, mainly using an off-site contractor, but some are bottle-conditioned at the brewery. Beers are also packaged as bag-in-box.
Updated 9 December 2021.
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