Closed brewery
58A Railway Arches, North Woolwich Road E16 2AA (Newham)
huskbrewing.com
First sold beer: January 2016
Brewing ceased: February 2023
Despite its original address and against London 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 restaurant group, and 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. The company then found a potential new brewing site at the Factory Project, Factory Road E16 2HB (Newham), but it was unsuitable for a taproom and proved problematic in other ways such as an inadequate power supply.
Meanwhile an offsite taproom opened in July at a more accessible location in a new development close to Canning Town station (1A Brunel Street Works, 5 Silvertown Way, London E16 1EA), initially selling third party beers.
Plans to resume brewing were eventually abandoned, with the brewing side of the business voluntarily wound up in December 2024. The taproom is owned by a separate company and remains open simply as a bar.
Cask, keg and bottle-conditioned beers were mainly distributed locally and included several with unusual flavourings.
Updated 27 January 2025.
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