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

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

Author: Lizzie McAllister

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

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

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

Author: Tom Davidson

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

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

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

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

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

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Goose chase: the Chicago firm's new brewpub will open its doors in Shoreditch in late summer this year

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

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

Author: Andrew Barnes

Sold: The Pembury Tavern will be a new home for Five Points drinkers

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

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

Author: Andrew Barnes

Beards and beers: The Cock Tavern "bristles with beard friendliness"

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Comfort-Thai-ble: the “pleasingly bustling and casual” interior of Smoking Goat

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Got the bottle: Forest Road Brewing Co.'s Pete Brown chugs a couple of their pale ales, WORK.

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hair of the cat: a can of Field Day Citrus Pale Ale

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

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

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen