Brewery (of sorts), no visitors please
11A Uplands Business Park E17 5QJ (Waltham Forest)
pinter.co.uk
First sold beer: September 2020
The brainchild of two former musical festival promoters, Ralph Broadbent and Alex Dixon, this isn’t a conventional brewery but supplies a hi-tech home beer-making gadget, the Pinter, billed as a ‘Nespresso for beer’, and ingredients packs to use with it.
Technically, it’s not a homebrewing system as there’s no liquid to heat up: instead you use a special ‘fresh press’ concentrate, cold water and yeast in a single 10l vessel which took seven years to develop. This is cunningly designed to accommodate fermentation, conditioning and dispense, typically taking 4-5 days to produce drinkable beer.
Ralph and Alex point to the environmental benefits of their system which they say reduces packaging by 70% and CO2 emissions by 50% compared with bought-in beer. The business is located in the Walthamstow brewing hub of Blackhorse Lane.
I couldn’t get the Mark 1 version supplied as a review sample to work so can’t comment on the results, but I understand others have had better luck. The Pinter 2 was released later in 2021.
Fresh Press packs are created by ex-Camden Town brewer Evangelos Tsionos and are designed to fit through a letterbox.
Updated 17 December 2021.
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