London's Brewing, The LBA Showcase

The LBA and in particular those nice people at London Fields are going into overdrive this month getting the LBA Showcase event, London's Brewing, organised for the 4th & 5th of May.

Tap East is proud to announce that we'll have three beers at the event.

APA, the popular American Pale Ale made with Chinook & Citra hops.

Coffee in the Morning, our 5.7% coffee porter made with freshly ground coffee beans from our friends at Grind, here in Westfield Stratford City.

And a brand new IPA which will be a single hop beer made entirely with Calypso hops which Jim is getting rather excited about brewing with.


London now has over 40 active breweries and with over 100 beers being showcased this is one of the beery must do events of the year. There will be a great festival feel to the event with streetfood and live music this year as well. Click on the Londons Brewing link above to get up-to-date info on the event AND your tickets before they run out!

We hope to see you there!

3 Shades of Black

Morning all!

This Thursday, 8th November at 6pm sees the release of 3 Shades of Black, possibly the most interesting beer launch to date. This is our multiple release London Porter...

As you can see from the poster we've got an original version, a sour version and a barrel aged version.

The original does what is says on the tin really, nicely roasty, far too easy to drink and perfect for this time of year!

The second of the Three Shades is the sour, how did we get it soured? No we didn't age it in a fluctuating temperatures for a couple of years, we used a Brettanomyces yeast strain.

Shade no.3 has been aged in a Longmorn Scotch whisky barrel for a couple of months. For those of you into your Whiskies, the Longmorn distillery is in Moray, Speyside. 

As usual you can get to Tap East easiest by getting off at Stratford International DLR station and walking across International Square where you will find us right on the edge of Westfield shopping centre.

Call 020 8555 4467 for more details!

Red Lion Tap Takeover!

Afternoon all,

We're taking over the taps at the Red Lion in Leytonstone on Friday 12th October!

If you're in the area of Leytonstone High Road and pop into the Red Lion, expect to see the following cask beer on the bar...

East End Mild
3.5% abv, Mild with hints of toffee and herbs.

Jim Wilson Bitter
3.8% abv, light bitter with a lovely dry finish.

London Extra

5.3% abv, Amber coloured Bitter, the recipe is adapted from one from the 1820's.

Coffee in the Morning
5.3% abv, Our widely acclaimed coffee stout made with fresh ground coffee beans from the Grind coffee shop, our neighbour at Westfield!

Urban Hop
4.8% abv, Our first ever Fresh hop beer, the hops came from Jim's garden and we got 5 kilos of Target hops into the brew!

So we're sending some cracking beers down the road to Leytonstone and the Red Lion is a great place to enjoy them. 

We hope to see you there!

Proceedings start at around 6pm and the address of the Red Lion is :

640 High Road,
Leytonstone,
E11, 3AA
Telephone : 020 8988 2929

The Good Beer Guide 2013

WE'RE IN IT!

TWICE!

You can get your copy now at any decent book retailer.

International Arms Race

Next Wednesday, September 19th, Tap East will be playing host to the latest round of Brewdog and Flying Dog's fight for supremacy in their International Arms Race.

The International Arms Race is an IPA made without any hops! Crazy notion we think but we are intrigued to find out what they taste like!

So if you have an hour or two free on Wednesday night from 7pm, come and join us for some Doggy Fun and Zero IBU's and you can decide who the winner is!

We hope to see you Wednesday!

Getting Fresh!

So if you're a bit geeky about your beer like we are, you might have noticed that there's lots of green (or fresh) hop beers coming out at the moment.

Guess what? We're doing the same!

Our Brewer, Jim will be picking the hops vines in his garden on Friday morning and then we're(Jim and Glyn) going to brew with them the very same day!

Having already had a sniff of one of these delightful hop cones, I'm now pretty excited to be brewing with them.

We have yet to pick a name for the beer  but since Fresh Hop beers are meant to be drunk as fresh as possible we'll be launching it on Friday 28th September.

Names ideas will be considered so if you have ideas then let us know.

More info will come out as I know more but, we'll most likely be live blogging it too so keep an eye out on Friday!

hasta luego

Glyn

Swedish Silver Medalist Finds Gold At Tap East

Congrats to Hakan Dahlby on his Silver Medal in the shooting, double trap at London 2012.

He found Gold at Tap East though!