Shared brewery
92 Enid Street SE16 4AW (Southwark)
mashpaddlebrewery.com
First sold beer: June 2022
Nick Harkin, a homebrewer with a background in financial services, is the man behind this communal brewery in the heart of Bermondsey, which opened following a successful crowdfunding round in summer 2021.
Mash Paddle offers homebrewing beginners to brew their own beer on professional-grade homebrew-sized kits, with a commercial license, its own small batch brands and onsite taproom, a little like the now-defunct UBREW. It’s also a social enterprise, working to support people with criminal convictions.
Finding a suitable home for the project proved more challenging then expected, but an announcement on 30 January 2022 confirmed that it had secured a site in Enid Street between Bianca Road and the Kernel.
‘Soft opening’ began in June, initially only with a bar stocking other people’s beer, but a few small-scale trial brews began to appear soon afterwards. Full brewing facilities were delayed a little while a more powerful electricity supply was installed but the site was fully operational by September 2022. There are two 40 l SS Tech kits with separate vessels, and two 30 l ‘all-in-one’ Grainfathers, plus various miniature cylindroconical fermentation vessels and a hand canning machine
Demand for house beers has been so strong that they are now mainly cuckoo brewed at Bianca Road and Distortion, though in spring 2024 the brewery is planning to add its own larger kit so it can produce at more commercial scale.
Own beers are in keg and can, with the facility to can beers also available to other users.
Updated 12 February 2024.
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