Brewery, brewing currently suspended
Original site: 22A Cudworth Street E1 5QU (Tower Hamlets)
mechanicbrewery.co.uk
First sold beer: 29 January 2019
Brewing suspended: November 2020
Originally located in a run of railway arches around Bethnal Green Overground station apparently otherwise dedicated to fixing black taxis, this is the London brewing project of Olga Zubrzycka, who began working at the ill-starred UBREW in 2017, giving brewing courses as well as making her own beer.
Olga opened her own place early in 2019, using a second-hand Oban Ales 8 hl brewhouse, a homebrew-sized pilot kit and basic taproom.
She made a wide range of beer, in cask as well as keg, including more traditional English and German styles, with some hand bottling and small-scale canning using a mobile line.
A combination of Covid-related issues and spiralling rents forced Olga to give up the site early in 2021. During the summer she worked on a brewery farm project in Poland but intends to return to London and revive Mechanic at a new site, perhaps as a brewpub.
Updated 14 September 2021
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