To celebrate their opening weekend, they will be selling £4 pints of their “core beers” By Victoria Munro
An artist’s impression of the new taproom (credit: Pretty Decent Beer Co)
A huge new brewery is being added to the Blackhorse Beer Mile next month and plans to produce nearly 20,000 pints a week within two years.
On 9th December, Pretty Decent Beer Co will open in Uplands Business Park, already home to three other taprooms and the site of a mammoth proposed housing development.
The taproom will open seven days a week, closing at midnight on the weekend and 8pm on Sunday, and offer 20 taps, including weekly special releases.
To celebrate their opening weekend, they will be selling £4 pints of their “core beers”, including “I Could Get Better At T*sco For a Quid”, named in tribute to an early Google review.
Co-founders Sarah and James Casey told the Echo: “We were pretty sure we’d be financially ruined by this point so to make this move and join the community in Blackhorse Road is pretty ace!
“To be in such an exciting brewing neighbourhood, making more beer than ever, means our focus is on trying to not to [mess] it up!”
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A “beer slushie” (credit: Pretty Decent Beer Co)
James added: “We brew small batches, but a big range. Our aim is that everyone should feel included by what we offer.
“If you want to come and smash a lager, smash a lager; if you’re into sours, we’ll have something for you. We love brewing a lot of hop-forward, hazy IPAs so you can expect plenty of those too.”
Pretty Decent Beer Co started in 2017 as “London’s smallest commercial brewery”, opening under a railway arch in Forest Gate.
After meeting while working in the charity sector, Sarah and James wanted to ensure “giving money to great causes is baked into the business model”, meaning every beer sold “includes a donation”.
The taproom will sell pizzas made by Walthamstow company It’s Not Big Dough.
Earlier this month, the Echo reported that Waltham Forest Council spent £600,000 on a makeover at the industrial estate housing another part of the Blackhorse Beer Mile.
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