As many of our lovely customers know, we’ve been looking for a new space for our brewery with room for a taproom (and possibly a pony) for quite some time. We started looking in the area around our current place in Edmonton, but the search has widened and widened over time, with even a fleeting suggestion we might move it to Iceland!
We would have liked to stay close to our current location and the community that has supported us over the last five years, but unfortunately we have been unable to find the perfect spot in the borough of Enfield – everywhere we considered was too big, too small, didn’t have everything we would need or had a very limited lease term available that would mean the capital investment in setting things up wouldn’t give us a return over time.
Finally, a few weeks ago, we found somewhere new, not in Edmonton/Enfield – and we signed the new lease this week.
This means that over the summer, subject to various licensing applications being successful, we will be moving our operations to Walthamstow. We’re moving into another industrial unit that’s about 3.5 times the size of our current place and has room for a taproom. It has dedicated office space and even posh loos, and it’s near a few other breweries in a bustling beer community.
Anyone who has been to our Edmonton site recently will know that we’ve outgrown it – as our Brewer, Michaela, put it, we’re “potbound” – and we think this gives us the best opportunity to grow and develop the business as well as continuing to serve our aims as a social enterprise.
We’re planning to do some crowdfunding in the near future to help build the next phase of Beerblefish, so look out for more on that very soon!
