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Husk Brewing

Brewing, E16

Suspended brewery
Original site: 58A Railway Arches, North Woolwich Road E16 2AA (Newham)
Current site: The Factory Project, Factory Road E16 2HB (Newham, no visitors please)
Taproom: 1A Brunel Street Works, 5 Silvertown Way, E16 1EA
huskbrewing.com
First sold beer: January 2016
Brewing suspended: February 2023

Despite its original address and against expectations, this small east London brewery and taproom began not under a railway but a road viaduct, close to the Royal Victoria Docks and Excel exhibition centre.

Founder Christiaan van der Vyver, originally from Pretoria in South Africa, is a former homebrewer and enthusiastic beer and food matcher who once worked for the Hawksmoor group, and has named the business after the husk, one of the reasons why barley has proved an ideal grain for brewing. He started with a 4 hl brewhouse from veteran microbrewery supplier Dave Porter.

The brewery planned to move and expand in 2023 with a larger 10 hl kit acquired from Three Sods when it closed. The intended site fell through and brewing had to be suspended in February, though the taproom remained open for a time.

Eventually the operation relocated to two new sites. A new taproom opened in July at a more accessible location in a new development close to Canning Town station. Brewing facilities were transferred to a repurposed industrial site in Silvertown with no public facilities. Production still hasn’t resumed, however, due to problems with the power supply, and may be delayed into 2024.

Cask, keg and bottle-conditioned beers are mainly distributed locally and include several with unusual flavourings.

Updated 22 September 2023.

Chris van der Vyver of Brewing.

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