Beer firm, planned brewery outside London
Good Company, 17 Triton Street, London NW1 3BF
toastale.com
Active since: January 2016
Based in Southwark, Toast was launched by Tristram Stuart, founder of food waste charity Feedback, with the aim of recycling waste bread into beer, a process Tristram first saw in action at Brussels Beer Project. The company had early links with E5 Bakehouse. Income from sales helps support the charity.
Most of the bread used is in the form of crusts and other offcuts donated by the sandwich industry and surplus loaves from large bakeries, typically replacing a third of the grist. The first brew was at Hackney brewery but the core beers then moved to SEB in Broadstairs, Kent.
There are numerous one-off collaborations with brewers around the country and the world. The project has since expanded to New York City, working with local brewers. The recipes are ‘open source’ so anyone can brew them.
Toast launched a London taproom at the above address in collaboration with likeminded social enterprise Change Please coffee in March 2023. Check opening hours as, due to the location, it’s currently closed weekends and only open into the evening one day a week.
In July 2023, Toast announced it would be launching its own microbrewery in 2024, not in London but at Unity Place, a newly developed multi-purpose space in Milton Keynes. I’m therefore no longer regarding it as a London-based beer firm.
Beers are in keg and can.
Updated 23 February 2024.
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