Sambrook's Brewery · 2009-04-05 20:21
Sambrook’s is a new brewery based in London – actually, 15 minutes walk from me, just on the other side of Clapham Junction. They had an open day on Saturday, and provided a few pints of their beer – Wandle Bitter. It’s a tasty beer, sweet and malty with a dry finish, and has quite a depth of flavour for a beer coming in at just 3.8%. This is the kind of lower alcohol beer the Government should be supporting.
A few interesting tidbits:- they can brew 5,500 pints at a time, and hope to increase that to 30,000 with more fermentation tanks. A new summer brew will be coming, if they can get it done in time. The beer’s made with floor-malted barley from (what used to be) the original Guinness maltings in Warminster. They use 2 kinds of aroma hops (Fuggles and Goldings), but the bitter hops they use are Boadicea, rather than the more usual Challenger, as Challenger is proving less disease resistant, and harder to grow. The yeast was originally from one of the Brakspear-owned breweries.
They’ll sell you a cask, polypin or minipin, or even a case of their new bottle conditioned version, if you email them to arrange a time to pick up.