Hackney-based London Fields Brewery is relaunching at Craft Beer Rising, showcasing two core beers. The team, including new head brewer, Talfryn Provis-Evans, will be on hand to guide visitors through the revamped core line-up.
This includes Hackney Hopster (4.2% ABV), a thirst-quenching pale ale with hints of grapefruit, lemon zest and gooseberry followed by a dry, fresh finish, and 3 Weiss Monkeys (5%), a hoppy wheat beer blending two styles (hefeweizen and IPA) for a tropical boom of flavours, including banana, citrus and spice.
Talfryn is reworking the London Fields core line-up at Truman’s Brewery, in nearby Hackney Wick, while the London Fields Brewery site undergoes construction of a new brewhouse, due to open towards the end of 2018. As good friends and neighbours, Truman’s and London Fields Brewery are committed to an ongoing partnership, with benefits for both breweries.
James Morgan, Truman’s re-founder said: “Several of our team, both past and present, started their careers in beer at London Fields and it’s great to be in a position to help them rebuild. We both have big plans for the future, and the current beer scene offers so much opportunity for us to work together.”
Collaborations
At Craft Beer Rising, London Fields’ stand features a collaboration between Talfryn and his east London buddies, Crate Brewery, in the form of a lychee and coconut sour. In addition, Talfryn has teamed up with an old university mate at Peterborough-based Nene Valley Brewery to create an interpretation of banoffee pie in beer form. Banoff With Your Head riffs on the trend of creating sweet, and often sickly, dessert-themed beers, or pastry stouts, but is actually a surprisingly sessionable banoffee ale. In this take, the banana comes from the yeast, the toffee from the malt, the milkyness from lactose and a sprinkle of chocolate from cocoa nibs.
The coming year will see London Fields Brewery developing experimental and one-of-a-kind brews alongside its core range. Talfryn said: “We want to work with local breweries, scientists and other creative minds to explore new collaborations and produce some high-intensity, pleasure-inducing beers.”
Previously head brewer at London’s Redchurch Brewery and a prominent figure within Crate Brewery, Beavertown Brewery and St Peter’s Brewery, in Suffolk, Talfryn has an abundance of brewing knowledge, drawing from both traditional and contemporary techniques and practices.
