Stone Fruit and Amarillo Sour, 4.0%

The newest release in our Sour Series, this Stone Fruit and Amarillo Sour using the stone fruit flavours of peach, mango and apricot this beer is fruity, juicy and tart. Dry-hopped with Amarillo hops results in a big hoppy, bitter finish that stops the beer from being too sweet and remains sessionable.

Using a new local artist for these label designs, we sat down with graphic designer and student Karthik Sowbaghyanathan to find out a bit more about himself and how he created this beautiful label for us!

Tell us a bit about yourself, Karthik…

My name is Karthik (well, actually I have a 13-letter first name and a 15-letter last name) and I am a designer, currently doing my MA in graphic communication design at Central St. Martins. I did bachelors in engineering and so my practice mostly involves a combination of the two. I dabble with illustrations on the side. My other interests include all things pop culture and it also shapes the way that I work and live. I also did quite a bit of theatre during my bachelors and that’s where my interests in telling narratives through design started.

What is your background and where did you grow up?

I am from Chennai, India and live there for 21 years of my life before moving to London for my Masters. It is a lovely city, with a lot of eclectic cultures. I lived in the same neighbourhood all my life and it has shaped my life tremendously and is always a place of comfort.

What does a typical day look like for you…

A nice breakfast with some really strong coffee to kickstart my day. I usually tend to always be in Uni since I find it much easier to work there. It’s a 20-minute walk from where I live and I absolutely love that. Then it’s a 7-hour juggle between my course work and all the freelance projects that I have. My evenings are spent usually hanging out with friends or just being on YouTube for hours together. And before I know it, it’s 2am and time for bed.

How do you like to work?

I aim to invoke some sort of response from the viewer through my work. I love to use narratives in my work and trying to weave stories around it. Collaboration is something that I value a lot and I try to make the most of collaborations every chance I get. I usually try to bounce ideas off my friends before I jump into realising them. I also have a firm belief in design being used a medium for intervention rather than problem solving and I try to incorporate this belief in every personal project that I do.

p.s: I have the odd habit of working with my headphones on but not listening to any music because I like how it dampens all the noise around me.

What/who inspires you and your work?

Pop culture has had a major influence on my work. I got into design after being inspired by design in pop culture from simple movie posters, or set designs or even props like those designed by Annie Atkins. I usually go on random walks around London during the weekend and they end up inspiring me in the most interesting ways possible.

Where or what is your favourite spot in South East London?

Aah, living in North London, I haven’t had a chance to visit as many places in South/South East London as I would’ve liked to, but there are certain places that I love going back to. I love the markets in Brixton for their culture and the amazing food. I always love a good walk along the southern bank of the Thames. Peckham Plex is always a good bargain everytime I want to watch a movie but don’t want to spend much!

Check out more of Karthik’s work:

aprettylongname.com

instagram.com/karthiknathansowbaghyanathan

Stone Fruit and Amarillo Sour will be available in keg and can exclusively at our Taproom this Friday 19th April before general release next week.

From Thursday 11th April we welcome back Intoart and Yoshiko Phillips for another mural exhibition on our Taproom wall. Yoshiko first exhibited her work on our Taproom wall back in April 2018 and we are so excited her bright and fantasical characters have found a home with us for the next few months.

Yoshiko Phillips

Yoshiko Phillips creates artworks that are full of merry characters, dazzling colour combinations and bold, calligraphic linework. Her practice has been inspired by a range of sources including traditional Japanese embroidery, Baroque architecture and the natural world.

Yoshiko has recently applied her unmistakable style to a number of design projects including a collaboration with prestigious knitwear designers John Smedley; a large-scale installation for the walls of Charing Cross Hospital, as well as creating a number of bespoke Intoart products and prints.

Her current body of work has been based around the study Japanese spirits, apparitions and monsters known as Yokai. Yoshiko has created dozens of characters for this project each one brimming with a mixture of charm and mischievousness. The mural at the Brick Brewery Taproom brings four of her favourite Yokai together in a stunning large scale composition. Yoshiko has been a member of the Intoart collective since 2015.

 

About Intoart

Intoart is an art and design studio working inclusively with people with learning disabilities practising as artists. The collective of 21 artists and designers work from their studio in Peckham, South London.

Intoart aims to provide a platform for people with learning disabilities to become both visible and equal in the art world – not merely applauded for participating, but recognised and respected as creatives in their own right. Since its foundation, Intoart has realised exhibitions, art commissions and research projects with contemporary art galleries and museums in the UK and internationally, including Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate, Southbank Centre and Whitechapel Gallery. Intoart’s design studio spans illustration, product and graphic design, print, textiles, ceramics and fashion, resulting in distinctive product ranges, limited edition prints and creative collaborations.

Brick Brewery Printmakers Fair

To celebrate the launch of this new exhibition with Intoart and Yoshiko, we are hosting a Printmakers Fair for you to come and purchase screenprints, digital prints, greeting cards and t-shirts from some amazing local artists this Saturday 13th April from 1pm-5pm.

Prints from:
INTOART // MATHILDA DELLA TORRE // POLLY WILLIAMS // MICHELLE DWYER // HANNAH TOEHILL // WILL CLARKE // YUKIKO IKEHARA // EMMA LOU // LINDA SCOTT // RITA PENEDA // DALE CARNEY

FREE ENTRY! Enjoy browsing the stalls over a few pints and a Slow Richie’s…

Find out more about the Printmakers Fair here

Find out more about Intoart and their brilliant collective here

Follow Intoart on Instagram 

Check out Yoshiko Phillips’ and Intoart’s exhibition from now until the beginning of June.

NEW BEER: Buraz, East Coast IPA

Back in February we welcomed Tom and Filip from The Garden Brewery to brew a reciprocal beer to our Rosehip and Wild Sorrel Sour collaboration Pete helped them brew over in Croatia last November. Buraz is an East Coast IPA which showcases a new hop in the market; Sabro. Sabro exhibits an intoxicating and complex blend of fruity and citrus flavors. It is described as an intensely unique hop, notable for its complexity of fruity and citrus flavors, including distinct tangerine, coconut, tropical fruit, and stone fruit flavors, with hints of cedar, mint, and cream. The combination of Sabro, Citra and Vic Secret hops resulted in a super juicy IPA with heavy notes of mango, passionfruit and a coconut sweetness.

Using a new local artist for these label designs, we sat down with illustrator and graphic designer Mathilda Della Torre to find out a bit more about herself and how she created this beautiful label for us!

Hi Mathilda, tell us a bit about yourself…

Hello! My name is Mathilda and I am an illustrator and graphic designer, currently doing a Master’s in Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins. I love the sunshine, drawing, falafel, London, charity shops and any shade of pink. I use my practice as a way to look closer for longer, to portray how I see small portions of the world, to bring people together through creative exchanges and visual conversations and to position peripheral voices in the centre of our stories.

 

What is your background and where did you grow up?

I am half French and half Italian and I’ve been living in London for 6 years now. I moved around Europe quite a lot when I was growing up, so I tend to feel at home really quickly and almost anywhere. But right now London feels like home and I’m so happy here.

 

What does a typical day look like for you…

• Porridge and coffee for breakfast.
• Cycling to uni, preferably in the sunshine.
• Working on projects both for my course and as a freelancer in our studio, library, canteen or anywhere else where I can focus.
• Feeling hungry again 30 minutes after having lunch.
• Having a few breakdowns and sometimes (rarely) having a creative breakthrough.
• And then ideally going home or out and doing something nice with friends or family. But more realistically, doing emails and more admin at home and then going to sleep very early.

 

How do you like to work?

By putting people at the centre of my practice, and by always working with or for people whose ethical values align with mine. I only realised how much I liked collaborating with others pretty recently, but there’s something really fulfilling about exchanging and challenging each other’s ideas, combining skills and creating something that has little bits of everyone. Whether that is to illustrate a label for a beer that people will share together or to create a set of workshops based on exchanges and visual exercises on our perception of India after travelling there. I’m also part of a design collective called ‘On The Mend’, and we are committed to improving health and wellbeing environments. At the moment, we are focusing on creating events that educate the public about current health topics through the use of design. This is definitely the way I love to work.

Find out more about On The Mend and their projects here: onthemend.me/

 

What/who inspires you and your work?

As cliché as it sounds, I’m inspired by my environment and everything that is happening around me, which is why I’m slightly obsessed with traveling and constantly living in new places. These are some of the things that have recently really inspired me:

• Travelling to Jordan.
• Reading ‘Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste’ by Juliet Steyn.
• Watching (again) ‘Human Flow’ directed by Ai WeiWei.
• Listening to Maggie Rogers’ new album ‘Heard It In A Past Life’.
• Seeing Grace Wales Bonner’s ‘A Time for New Dreams’ exhibition at Serpentine Gallery.
• Reading Migrant Journal Issue 1 ‘Across Country’.
• Discovering the charity Headway East London and the Submit To Love Studios (a collective of artists who have survived brain injuries).
• Going to a talk by Elif Shafak.

 

Where or what is your favourite spot in South East London?

I studied my BA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts, so I spent 3 years exploring South East London. I loved living there and I have made so many memories there. These are a few of my favourite places:

• The food at Persepolis in Peckham (and the friendliest staff).
• The beer garden at Duke of Edinburgh in Brixton.
• The prints in Studio 74 in Brixton Market (I sell some of my screen prints there too!).
• The view from Frank’s Cafe at Bold Tendencies in Peckham (eagerly waiting it for it open again in the summer!).
• The Traid charity shop in Peckham.
• The gallery space and book shop at South London Gallery in Camberwell.

 

Find more of Mathilda’s work here:

mathildadellatorre.com/

instagram.com/mathildadellatorre/

 

Join us on Friday 22^ndMarch as we launch Buraz at the Taproom before general sale on Monday 25^thMarch. We are holding a FREE tasting session to taste both the Buraz and Citrus Sour, lead by one of our brewers to find a bit more about the beers. Get your ticket here.

The Taproom is open as usual all weekend to try the beer exclusively too!