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Posts Tagged ‘beer’

Hackney’s Five Points named Brewery of the Year at prestigious national awards

By Lizzie McAllister | Friday 17 December 2021 at 09:53

Five Points co-founder pays tribute to staff after winning Brewers Choice’s top prize

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Hackney’s biggest independent brewery launches new taproom by London Fields

By Tom Davidson | Monday 22 November 2021 at 11:55

Five Points on road to recovery after an 80 per cent drop in custom during the pandemic

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Another round? London Fields Brewery returns to its original home after five-year absence

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 14 August 2019 at 17:37

Team reveals it is once again making beer in the arches where it all began back in 2011

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Hackney Brewery to celebrate eighth birthday with big bash at Geffrye Museum

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 20 June 2019 at 15:56

The beer maker’s Summer Session on 27 July will have a ‘strong environmental focus’ – and a few games of Kubb

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Goose Island Brewery in hunt for local beer talent as new Shoreditch brewpub given summer opening date

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 18 April 2018 at 14:38
Goose chase: the Chicago firm's new brewpub will open its doors in Shoreditch in late summer this year

The Chicago-based sud-slingers – who produce Barack Obama’s favourite pint – have some perks in store for their new brewmaster, who’ll work at their first East London haunt

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Up the Junction: Historic Pembury Tavern snapped up by Five Points

By Andrew Barnes | Friday 9 February 2018 at 12:10
Sold: The Pembury Tavern will be a new home for Five Points drinkers

The Hackney brewery, located just 100 yards from the Pembury, will put the Victorian public house to use as a taproom

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Razor glass to The Cock Tavern and Clapton Craft: Hackney dominates Beard Friendly drinking awards

By Andrew Barnes | Monday 15 January 2018 at 14:14
Beards and beers: The Cock Tavern "bristles with beard friendliness"

In the same weekend that brewing returned to The Cock, the comfortingly traditional Hackney Central pub and nearby bottle shop both won in a hirsute landslide

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Smoking Goat, Shoreditch, restaurant review: ‘like they’ve entered a cheat-code to my heart and stomach’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 6 November 2017 at 16:32
Comfort-Thai-ble: the “pleasingly bustling and casual” interior of Smoking Goat

New Shoreditch restaurant Smoking Goat takes inspiration from Northern Thailand and its culture of aharn glam lao – drinking food

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Homebrewing: Forest Road brewer gives advice on how to make it WORK

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 16 August 2017 at 15:20
Got the bottle: Forest Road Brewing Co.'s Pete Brown chugs a couple of their pale ales, WORK.

The story of Forest Road Brewing Company’s pale ale WORK began in Pete Brown’s Dalston garden – we bring you his tips on creating your own batches of beautiful beer

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Field Day: commemorative “cat beer” readied by Five Points, Dinerama celebration planned

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 21 April 2017 at 19:46
Hair of the cat: a can of Field Day Citrus Pale Ale

Five Points’ Field Day Citrus Pale Ale will be in abundance at the Victoria Park music festival on 3 June

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Homerton International Festival Of Beer and Bar Snacks comes to The Adam & Eve

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 April 2017 at 13:11

The second annual event showcases snacks from the familiar to more obscure, and even unique offerings – to be washed down with a similarly wide selection of bees and ales

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Chuck Burger, Spitalfields, restaurant review – ‘no nonsense’ burgers and wings

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 9 August 2016 at 15:08

This bare-bones, American inspired diner by Aldgate East station makes its own patties, alongside other meaty triumphs

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The Strongroom American Beer Festival is back, and bigger than ever!

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 16 June 2016 at 14:49
Bucking bronco

Independence Day celebrations, a huge range of imported beers, spirits and more

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London Fields Brewery put up for sale

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 18 March 2016 at 15:22
London Fields Brewery. Photograph: Hackney Citizen

Offers invited for craft beer brand and microbrewery

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‘Just drink lots of beer and eat lots of cheese’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 23 May 2013 at 18:20

Sage advice from sommelier Ned Palmer ahead of the London Beer Festival (With Cheese) in Shoreditch

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Boom time for Hackney brewed beer

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 9 January 2012 at 13:13
Jules Whiteway London Fields Brewery

Hackney’s only small-scale brewery is proving a runaway success as sales rocket and other beer producers rush to set up nearby

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Beer’s back: Stoke Newington spearheads drinking revolution

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 6 June 2011 at 07:25
Pete Brown

The Citizen hears why a tipple that was once only fit for your dad is now considered the height of cool

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