Stout Festival

As the days get colder and shorter we’re all finding ourselves reaching for the darker beers. To celebrate, we’re holding a weekend-long Stout Festival to launch our latest beer; Jerk Stout (in collaboration with 12:51 restaurant) and showcase some amazing stouts from our favourite breweries – including our own Blackhorse Milk Stout and Fennel and Orange Imperial Stout.  Guest beers as below:

Wiper & True (Bristol, UK) – Milk Shake – A milk stout using sugar made
from cows milk to give the beer a sweet, creamy tone. Bristol breweries
were once famous for brewing the best milk stouts around.
Almasty (Newcastle, UK) – Chocolate & Caramel Stout – A bittersweet
pudding-in-a-glass beer with added caramel.
Northern Alchemy Dark Chocolate & Mint Milk Stout 5.1% – “A malt base of
Pale, Crystal, Chocolate, Roasted Barley and a handful of Oats. Gently
hopped on Bramling Cross and Pacific Jade. Lactose and 90% Cocoa Dark
Chocolate are added to the late boil. This Milk Stout is then
conditioned on a whole load of torn mint leaves.”
CASK Wylam Macchiato 6.5% – Hazelnut Praline Coffee Porter… a complex
grain bill for extra body and mouth feel, lactose providing that
smoothness for a cold brew hazelnut coffee to shine through in this
winter warming porter.
*NEW RELEASE* Two Tribes x Wild Weather Ales (Kings Cross/Reading, UK) –
Pasila chillies give the beer a chocolatey, smokey and liquorice like
flavour. Earthy, full-bodied with a slight spice of cinnamon quills,
cassia bark and black cardamom.
*SPECIAL* Mikkeller (Copenhagen, DK) – Oatmeal Oregon Fruit Series Flat
White Cherry Stout – Fruity, Rich and Roasted.  This Flat White Stout
with Cherry was made in collaboration with Oregon Fruit and Coffee
Collective where they paired sweet cherries with Ethiopian coffee and
lactose to create a delicious and creamy stout!
*EXTRA SPECIAL* To Ol (Copenhagen, DK) – Goliat Maple Beacon –  Smokey
Imperial Coffee Stout matured with Bourbon soaked oak chips.
*EXTRA EXTRA SPECIAL* Gueuzerie Tilquin x La Rulles (BE) – Stout
Rullquin – 1 release per year, brewed since 2014. 7/8 of La Rulles Brune
and 1/8 of lambic, refermented in oak barrels at Gueuzerie Tilquin for 8
months. An exceptional beer that gently marries roasted flavors,
fruitiness and well-balanced acidity.

Stout Festival

Friday 30th November – Sunday 2nd December
Brick Brewery Taproom

Our 5th Birthday Party!

We are rounding off our week-long birthday tour with a massive party at the taproom on Saturday 8th December. Come and join us as we celebrate turning 5 years old!

12pm – midnight // Free entry // Family friendly // Dog friendly

DJ from 6pm – bring your dancing shoes!

Launching our latest sour to celebrate our birthday – Winter Berry Sour – a 7.2% Flanders red-inspired beer with additions of elderberries, sour cherries, blackberries and blackcurrants. PLUS a special Barrel Aged version which has been sitting in Côtes du Rhône barrels for a good few months (there is only 2 kegs of this reserved for the party and is sure to all go so don’t miss out!)

FREE tasting sessions at 2pm & 5pm of our Winter Berry Sour – led by the boss man, Ian!

Slow Richie’s will be flipping their usual amazing burgers with the special addition of a Birthday Burger for ONE DAY only! Using berries from our Winter Berry Sour for a special spicy chutney and anyone who was lucky enough to taste their macaroni cheese special last year may be in for a treat…

We’ll be running games and competitions ALL DAY (including some kid-friendly activities) and be in the chance of winning various prizes.

We’ve been digging through the photo archives to display a special photography exhibition showcasing Brick Brewery’s journey over the past 5 years.

PHEW! That about it? We think so… for now!

Lock in Saturday 8th December and come join us for a proper shin dig. The whole Brick Brewery team will be in in attendance… WE CAN’T WAIT!

You can book your space on the FREE Tasting sessions here

Saturday 8th December

Brick Brewery Taproom

 

Pink Gose Launch

The next in our Sour Series consists of everything Pink and is being exclusively launched at the Taproom on Friday 9th November accompanied by a FREE tutored tasting at 6pm. The harmonising flavours of Pink Grapefruit, Pink Peppercorns and Pink Himalayan salt combine to create a lip-puckering yet effortlessly juicy beer. Try it before it gets poured anywhere else and learn more about the beer at the tasting.

Friday 9th November

Belgian Weekender

 

On the 26th – 28th October we are going to be holding a Belgian Weekender at the Tap Room, Peckham.

Following a 2 week road trip around Europe, our ace Assistant Brewer, Sam, has been brewing up a few Brick specials inspired by his travels on our small-kit (Belgian Pale, Belgian Brown, Belgian Witbier, Flander-style Red Ale).  Plus alongside this there’s the following amazing Belgian beers across our Taps:

Westmalle Dubbel

Delirium Tremens

De La Senne Stouterik

Floris Raspberry Wit

De Ranke XX Bitter

Come and join us for some very exclusive Brick specials and some outstanding Belgian beers – opening times below:

Friday 5pm – Midnight

Saturday 12 noon – Midnight

Sunday 12 noon – 8pm

How do animals respond to music?

This Friday 5th October 2018, sees the launch of a new display on our artists wall.

Graeme (aka grohs) is a multi-tasking artist, illustrator, graphic designer, art director, DJ and sound artist whose work focuses on everything and nothing in particular. In a development of his successful project Dogs Responding To The Huge Tunes, Graeme is creating Fantazia Does Fantasia – Animals Responding To The Huge Tunes

Exploring the present moment and in particular the euphoric feeling once can experience at a rave, in a nightclub, listening to music or indeed just having a nice time with friends in a fine drinking establishment, this showcase will turn the wall into a “club for animals”- a mural featuring various speakers,“clubartifacts”, songtitles, lyrices and animals – think Disney’s Fantasia set in 90’s rave scene Fantazia.

Lions roaring for the rave. Elephants with their trunks in the air. Hippos shouting for a rewind.

Intrigued?  We certainly are.  Launching this Friday at the Tap Room, Graeme will be there for any artist questions, plus he will be bringing his kit and DJ’ing for us.  It won’t be a rave but we are hoping you will get that euphoric feeling, so come and join us from 5pm – midnight.

You can find out more about Graeme’s work here  

The work will be on display until the 23rd November 2018

Peckham Conker Championship

Yes that’s right, we are proud to be hosting Peckham’s own Conker Championship on Saturday 6th October at the Tap Room!  Open to all, anyone can enter but you will need to reserve your space by registering here

There’s cash, beer and meat prizes up for grabs as well

So what are you waiting for?  Get registering and practising!

Blackcurrant & Sumac Sour

Our next sour is ready, being packaged and off to hit the shelves next week (W/c 17th September 2018), this time taking inspiration from our favourite cordial and a hint of the Middle East to create a juicy sour that packs a punch on taste as well as on the eyes!

Using blackcurrants and the unusual ingredient of sumac to produce a sweet and jammy sour, balanced perfectly by the tangy lemon flavour of ground sumac which will naturally enhance the tartness of the beer. The ingredients have of course also imparted an amazing colour into the beer also. Made from dried berries, sumac has an appealing lemon-lime tartness that can be widely used in Middle Eastern and North African cooking. In Iran, they use it as a condiment, putting it onto the table with salt and pepper. The sumac also adds a slight tart salinity, that doesn’t quite push it towards gose territory, but helps to lift the fruitiness.

Welcoming a new designer for this beer’s artwork, Danielle-Louise Watt is a Peckham resident and full-time creative working from a studio in Shoreditch. We love Dani’s use of abstract shapes and colour that compliments the bright and colourful beer perfectly. For this particular label, Dani was inspired by the colours and shapes of the Middle East, using the ingredients as the colour palette and a stunning tiled effect so well-associated with that area of the world. Get to know Dani a bit better from the interview below…

What is your background and where did you grow up?

To most people’s surprise, I’m from Essex! Born and bred. I don’t really sound like it, but after a few beers the accent starts to come out. Being from Essex also means I come from a pretty standard working-class background. My dad’s a carpenter, his dad was a tiler, and his mum was a French polisher, so I grew up around pretty talented and practical people. For years I planned on being a carpenter like my old man, but then one day I realised I could actually make a career out of making art which seemed a little more exiting. So I went on to be the first Watt in the family to go into further education!

What does a typical day look like for you…

I work full time in a studio, so I normally jump on my bike at the crack of dawn, dive into Shoreditch from Peckham, spend about 8 hours working with clients and my wonderful team on advertising campaigns and editorials, then I head back home to draw into the night (usually with something like Eastenders or Love Island on in the background). I spend approximately half an hour on the phone to my dad each night, unless I’m at a friend’s house cooking dinner, or out for drinks in Peckham. I try to head back home now and again to see my ‘Essex mates’ but that gets harder and harder lately as I juggle full time work + making art. I suppose that’s what comes with turning 30, the work life balance battle ensues.

How do you like to work?

As mentioned, with some kind of tat on the tv in the background. Ideally, I like to work in natural light so I do a lot of my drawing outside of the computer at the weekends when I can see the colours of my materials properly. Other than that, probably on the floor or on my bed. I need a lot of flat space when working with pastilles for commission, but a lot of my work lately has been from my computer and Wacom at my desk in the evenings which is a lot less messy.

What/who inspires you and your work?

Colour. I am such a sucker for a brilliantly chosen colour pallet. For a long time I was scared of working with colour, but now it’s the thing that keeps me interested and wanting to make something so gorgeous but also sometimes garish I can’t stop looking at it. I also look back to the Greats if I’m lacking in inspiration, there’s nothing a day amongst my Picasso books or a museum filled with other such legends that won’t get my brain working again.

What’s your favourite spot in South-East London?

I’ve lived in South East London for so many years now that I have a lot of favourite spots (Mr Bao, Brick Brewery (obviously) Miss Tapas, EDT, South London Gallery, Warwick Gardens, Forza Win, Codfellas – shout out to those legends – I could go on…), but to narrow it down I’d say for the one place I go when I’m feeling a little off kilter and I need to be reminded that everything’s ok would probably be The Prince Albert on Bellenden Road, on a Saturday or Sunday when the football is on. I’ll probably have done my Lidl shop and in need of some respite, so if a game I want to see isn’t on the telly I’ll head down to one of the only pubs in the area that might be showing it, pick a chair close to the screen, and just take solace in that little piece of what feels like home. Either that or reading the newspaper in any of SE’s gorge parks, but that only applies if the suns out, which apart from this summer is usually never!

You can see more of Dani’s work here

https://www.d-l-watt.com/

https://www.instagram.com/daniellewatt/

To mark the occasion and launch, we are holding an exclusive tasting session at the Taproom this Friday 14thSeptember at 6pm to try the sour for the first time before it hits other shelves and taps. Lead by our Headbrewer, Pete, come find out a bit more about the beer and ask him any beery questions on your mind!

Keep an eye on our shop as the cans will be ready to buy from Tuesday 18thSeptember.

 

Clapton Craft x Brick Brewery

Our friends at Clapton Craft Forest Hill came to brew a collaborative beer with us back in July and it’s finally ready for release! Brewing a Saison beer for the first time and in the height of this summer’s heatwave, we used inspiration from Pete’s, our headbrewer, fond memories of holidays in France for the ingredients and flavours in the beer; think juicy apricots from the local markets and freshly baked bread from the boulangerie… all enjoyed in between jumping into the pool or sea to cool down.

The guys at Clapton Craft came down to the brewery for the day to help us brew; expect a hint of tartness, lush aroma and juicy taste from the apricots finishing on the bready, black pepper spice expected from Saison yeast.

As well as helping us brew, the label was designed by Clapton Craft Forest Hill’s Manager, Ben – who interpreted the story and beer into a truly summer experience.

Enjoy ‘Je Ne Saison Quoi’ at our Taproom in Peckham from Friday 24thAugust where we are launching the beer, as well as the Clapton Craft Forest Hill shop. Come down and chat to the Brick Brewery team about the beer in an informal tasting session from 6pm.

The beer will be available for your growler fills at Clapton Craft Forest Hill from Friday 24thAugust, as well as being able to pick up cans.

Raspberry & Thyme Sour launch!

Raspberry and Thyme Sour: 3.6%

For the latest release in our Sour Series, we Inspired by the ample fruits and herbs found in English woodland during the summer by using raspberries and thyme to create a tart, sweet yet slightly herbal sour.

Tart and sweet from the natural flavour of raspberries, it has a clean and refreshing body, bright pinky/red colour from the fruit additions. The unusual addition of lemon thyme has the soft herbal thyme flavour you would expect, along with a subtle essence of lemon sherbet, all without any of the bitterness you sometimes get from regular thyme.

We worked with Lauren Vaughan again to create another stunning label design, check out more of Lauren’s work on her website: http://laurenvaughan.co.uk/

 

Enjoy the Raspberry and Thyme Sour at our Taproom in Peckham from this Friday 27thJuly where we are launching the beer and will be the first and only place to drink it before it is released next week! Come down and chat to the Brick Brewery team about the beer in an informal tasting session from 7pm.

New exhibition

The Beautiful Game Photo Exhibition

Next week sees the launch of another art exhibition on our Taproom wall. After the Into Art mural (which you can read more about here) brightening the wall for the past 3 months it was time to bring a new display to the wall from another talented local creative.

We are proud to be displaying a photo exhibition, The Beautiful Game, following Dulwich Hamlet F.C through the 2017/2018 season through the lens of local photographers; Duncan Palmer (official DHFC photographer) and Sam Mellish.

As I am sure most of you know, Dulwich Hamlet F.C had a season of two halves, which began at Champion Hill. The South London team have played on or around the current site since 1912. The season started brilliantly until the team were evicted (just days after a famous away win at moneyed, eventual champions Billericay Town) from their home of over 100 years by Meadow Residential, the American property developer who now own the land. Suddenly homeless, Dulwich were in danger of sacrificing their season and their hopes of promotion until arch rivals Tooting & Mitcham United gallantly offered to share their KNK stadium. Following a steady run of home and away wins The Hamlet were still in with a chance of winning the league until a few weeks before the season ended. After securing second place, and as if the tension wasn’t enough, the ‘pink & blues’ went on to win the play offs to seal promotion to the National League South via a penalty shootout.

The exhibition beautifully captures the unfaltering support for the club throughout the season through the many faces of its fans.

The exhibition will be opening on Wednesday 1stAugust, with the photographers in attendance from 7pm-9pm to have a chat with! Come down for a few drinks in celebration of Dulwich Hamlet and the work on display.

Find out more about the photographers here:

https://www.sammellish.com/blog 

http://www.duncanpalmer.com