As you’ll no doubt have seen in the news, down the petrol station, and at the shop, the cost of living has gone a bit crazy lately… and as a business, we have been hit by some quite significant price increases too.

Our rent has doubled, aluminium cans are up 17%, utilities by 30-40%, Co2 has more than doubled, raw materials such as malt and hops are all up, our rubbish collection from the local council has increased 7% and we don’t need to tell you about the current cost of fuel…

We have been working on and have undertaken a full efficiency drive here at Brick, and whilst we have managed to absorb a lot of these costs, we are simply unable to do so for all increases.

Unfortunately that means that we have no alternative but to increase our prices slightly from the 1^st May.

We wholeheartedly appreciate the support you all offer our brewery. Be that through an order of kegs for your pub or distribution channel, the purchases on our online shop, a case of cans for your bottleshop, or a pint or two down the taproom. It’s all hugely appreciated.

We will be continuing to look at efficiencies across every aspect of the business and if we are able to do so, we’ll pass them on in terms of the end product price.

We hope to continue to expand production, invest more in our team, create even more varied and industry-leading sours, as well as ensure the quality of our Foundation Range remains consistent for years to come.  All with your continued support.

Thank you in advance for your understanding. All independent businesses will be feeling a similar pinch of late, so be sure to support your favourite indies if you can and look after yourselves.

Cheers,

Team Brick x

Job Role: Shift Brewer

We are looking for an experienced brewer to join our team, based here in SE London.

The role combines responsibilities across wort production and cellaring with occasional packaging duties.

Role Responsibilities:

• Working in-line with standard operating procedures
• Brewhouse operations including all aspects of wort production, milling and record keeping
• Bulk beer storage and transfer, including the correct handling of lines and sanitation of hoses & fittings.
• Stock Management
• Monitor operations against QA guidelines
• Cellaring
• Lab and QA work and routine cleaning e.g. Yeast Management and Propogation
• CIP and maintenance of brewhouse
• Maintain accurate production traceability records
• Ensure all production areas are well maintained to the highest hygienic standard
• Ensure production compliance with the relevant food acts at all times
• Packaging (can, keg and cask)
• Comply with high level of Health and Safety at all times
• Help to host and conduct beer tastings and industry events whilst representing the company
• Other duties as directed by the Head Brewer

The ideal candidate will have:

• Professional brewing qualifications (IBD or equivalent)
• A minimum three years in the brewing industry
• A passion for craft beer
• A desire to continuously innovate and share passion for beer is essential
• An eye for detail and plenty of initiative
• Ability to work on repetitive tasks
• Experience of manual work
• Ability to work alone and have initiative to problem solve
• Display common sense and attention to detail
• Excellent record keeping skills and professional compliance
• Forklift license desirable
• Experience in microbiology is desirable but not essential
• Commutable to SE8
• Legal right to work in the UK

NB: Please note that the role will require frequent lifting.  The role includes shift work including early mornings, evenings and some weekend work.

This position offers the right candidate, the opportunity to progress and develop within the company.  Salary from £27,000 per annum, dependent on experience. Brick is a London Living Wage employer and SALSA acrredited.

How to apply:

Please send your CV and a covering letter, mentioning why you would be the right fit for this role and our brand, to jobs@brickbrewery.co.uk

Please ensure you out in the Subject line “Brewer”.

CLOSING DATE: 16^th March 2022

Job Role: Part Time Delivery Driver / Drayperson

Brick is an award winning independently run brewery. After establishing ourselves in the heart of Peckham in 2013, the past few years of growth has allowed us to expand into an additional production site in Deptford. This means making more delicious beer for folk. Due to this, we need more people to join our growing team of passionate individuals to drive the brand forward… literally.

As part of this growth, Brick Brewery is currently seeking a part-time delivery driver, with occasional warehouse assistant responsibilities. The main duties of the role require 2-3 days delivering stock with any remainder of your week working at the brewery on warehouse duties.

The role we are advertising for is currently 3 days a week, but we would be open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

Role Responsibilities:

• Delivering and collecting stock to pubs, restaurants, football grounds & homes
• Loading and unloading vehicles
• Route planning; being self-sufficient and organized to plan your drops in the most efficient manner
• Warehouse duties including helping with the packaging team, stock rotation, stock takes etc.
• A wide variety of other tasks, such as maintaining vehicles & the warehouse space, keg scanning, assisting in labelling stock etc.

Key Responsibilities:

• Carry out warehouse duties including keeping the warehouse clean and tidy
• Identifying & picking the correct stock and batches
• Daily Vehicle Inspection & Vehicle Cleaning checklists
• You are the person that the accounts will see most often! Therefore you must be able to provide excellent customer service
• Assist in the packaging of product, in both kegs and cans
• Maintain the highest standards of health & safety
• Ensure that the vans/trucks are clean inside and out, cleaning out at the end of a working day. Also ensure our workspace is kept clean
• Optimizing warehouse space, through stock consolidation (particularly cold room storage, which is at a premium), and through forklift stacking
• Ensuring stock is readily available to pick from in a safe manner

Key Requirements:

• Must be 25 years of age or older for insurance purposes
• Right to live and work in the UK
• Hold a full clean current UK driving license
• Sociable, self-motivated, team player that’s able to work independently
• Have excellent customer relationship skills – polite, responsive and helpful
• Knowledge of traffic laws and highway code
• Articulate & computer/technology literate
• Excellent numerical skills

Beneficial Requirements:

• A Forklift license would be ideal. If not, then a capacity to learn & train
• An interest in beer always helps!
• Experience of driving in London / knowledge of London’s road system

Salary and Benefits:

• Salary, £25k per annum
• Company Pension scheme
• 28 days holiday (Including public holidays), calculated on a pro rata basis on your working days
• Charity/Community day leave
• A day off on your birthday!
• Free beer! (when you’ve finished driving of course!)

Brick is a London Living Wage employer and SALSA accredited.

Please note that this role involves frequent and regular lifting and manual handling, bending and sitting/driving for long periods.

How to apply:

Please apply by sending a covering email saying why you are right for the role along with a copy of your CV to jobs@brickbrewery.co.uk

Please be sure to put “Delivery Driver / Drayperson” in the subject field.  Applications without a covering letter will not be accepted.

All applications will be dealt with in the strictest confidence.

Interviews will be held on a rolling process, invited as applications received.

CLOSING DATE: Friday, 18^th March 2022

COVID – 19 Statement – 14th March 2020 – see update on 1st June 2020 at end of blog post

As a business the health and wellbeing of our team, customers and visitors is of paramount importance.  In light of the recent COVID-19 outbreak, we have implemented additional precautionary measures to both our Taproom and Production sites to help ensure everyone’s safety.

Our Taproom continues to be a welcoming and relaxing environment and we will remain open at the current time. In the interest of social distancing, we reserve the right to refuse entry in instances where our site is operating close to capacity and would encourage you to utilize the vast outdoor seating areas.  We will be CARD ONLY from now on and we have put in place increased cleaning of all surfaces and team hygiene procedures.

We would really appreciate your co-operation in ensuring that you wash hands regularly and following the guidance from the Government, NHS and the World Health Organisation.

Should you have a new, continuous cough or a high temperature (37.8) then we would kindly ask you to refrain from entering the premises and follow the protocol of self isolation at home for 7 days.

The team at our production site have been fully briefed on our policy and we have put clear health and safety processes in place. We will continue to assess this on a daily basis.

We would encourage you to support local businesses during this tough time and whist we haven’t got our online shop up and running just yet, please don’t forget that you can always buy take out from the Taproom.

Working together, we can ensure that our Taproom and our production site continues to operate and that our team and our customers are taking every precaution they can to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Team Brick

 

Update 27th March 2020

The Taproom is now closed until further notice.

We have opened a web store, where you can order beer delivered to your door by courier – please click here 

We also have gift cards available should you wish to buy yourself or someone a virtual gift – these can be redeemed online on our web store (Discount code) or you can save them up for a bar tab for when we are back open!  There is even bonus credit – find out more here

Thanks for all your support during these times and we will see you on the other side!

Update 1st June 2020

The Taproom has re-opened for Click and Collect and Takeaway.  Please order online, where you can select your collection date and time.  This really helps us in getting your orders ready and waiting for you, plus also helps us manage queues.

Weds, Thurs, Friday 3-8pm

Saturday 12-5pm

Extra Mile, Session IPA 3.9%

 

Extra Mile is a limited edition 3.9% Session IPA in collaboration with local running club, Runhead AC, to raise funds for Westminster House Youth Club. Westminster House Youth Club provides purposeful activities, both recreational and educational for young people aged 8-18 and Runhead AC have raised over £4000 for the charity to date to help them support young people to make positive life choices. When Dan and Terry from Runhead AC got in touch with us with the opportunity to produce this special one-off beer for WHYC we jumped at the opportunity to work with such an important service in our community.

Extra Mile is a 3.9% Session IPA, packed with Simcoe and Amarillo hops for notes of grapefruit and orange pith for a clean and refreshing finish.

“Extra Mile captures the amazing lengths, Dan, Terry and all the team at both Brick and Runhead have gone to in making this special collaboration happen, but also the extra lengths the amazing team at WHYC go to every day to support young people in the area.”
– Thom Banks, Runhead AC member.

Developing a Runhead beer and supporting local causes has been a Runhead AC goal from the very start of the club in 2016 with two of Runhead’s founders Anthony Mathews and Leonie Hope saying: “4 years ago a group of friends met at a party and chatted about how we all loved running and we all loved beer and Runhead was born. Our aim was to bring together local runners at a free club where they could run with friends, socialise with a beer, and support the local community. This message really hit home in Nunhead and Peckham, and suddenly we were running, drinking beer, and raising money for charity with over 50 friends. Having a Runhead beer is a dream come true. And the fact that the beer is in collaboration with Brick Brewery, somewhere we ran from in the very early days, and Westminster House Youth Club, a charity we have a strong history of supporting makes it taste even sweeter. ”

Westminster House Youth Club is one of the oldest youth clubs in the country.  From the very early days in of the Boys Club in Napier Hall to the modern Youth Club they operate from today, the Club has always worked with young people amongst the most deprived and disadvantaged in the country. It provides purposeful activities, both recreational and educational for young people aged 8-18. The local area is beset by a range of inner city problems, e.g. drugs, gang violence, poor educational opportunities, etc. The Club aims to support young people to make positive life choices.

“At Westminster House Youth Club we are all so excited to be supported by Runhead and Brick Brewery. Their latest project, Extra Mile, is such a fabulous example of Social Action – a local community supporting its most vulnerable young members – whilst also having a great time! Long may this partnership continue!”
– Kate Worthington MBE, Westminster House Youth Club

Community is what drives us at Brick and you can’t get any more community-focussed than this partnership with Runhead AC and WHYC. The children are the future and this is a charity that we very much stand behind. We’ll welcome anyone into our neighbourhood Tap Room to try the beer and raise a glass to the good work of our surrounding communities.

The Extra Mile label design details a map of the local area where Runhead, Brick and WHYC are all based and where WHYC carry out a lot of their amazing work. On the back of the can, you will notice a QR code. Scanning it will direct you to a selection of videos about the project and those involved. Extra Mile will go on sale from Sunday March 1^st at the Brick Brewery Tap Room in Peckham immediately after the Big Half, one of the major events in the UK Running Calendar. The Runhead AC team will be celebrating their achievement and cheersing to the good work of WHYC with some of the team from Brick and the youth club.

If you’re a bar, pub or bottle shop  to stock Extra Mile to sell and help us raise vital funds for WHYC please get in touch with sales@brickbrewery.co.uk

Hatchet Sour, 6.0%

The latest release in our Heritage Sour Series, Hatchet Sour is a 6.0% cherry and cherry wood saison.

This tart Saison has been bolstered with Rye and Munich malts to add a peppery-spiced complexity. The generous addition of sweet cherry into the fermenter gives the Saison a jammy sweetness which is balanced with the tannic and subtle vanilla notes from the cherry wood chips.

The cherry tree myth is the most well-known and longest enduring legend about George Washington. In the original story, when Washington was 6 years old he received a hatchet as a gift and damaged his father’s cherry tree. When his father discovered what he had done, he became angry and confronted him. Young George bravely said, “I cannot tell a lie…I did cut it with my hatchet.” Washington’s father embraced him and rejoiced that his son’s honesty was worth more than a thousand trees. However true this story really is, this Hatchet Sour is honest using real sweet cherries and aged on cherry wood, albeit not quite 1,000 trees.

Hatchet Sour is available in 330ml can and keg from next Monday 2nd March and will be pouring exclusively at our Taproom from this Friday 28th February.

Label Artwork: More Than Equal

Peckham Helles, 4.2%

What a better way to start 2020 than with a new beer joining our Foundation Range; our core range of beers available all-year round, Peckham Helles is a 4.2% gluten-free Helles lager. Gluten-free because we think that good lager should be enjoyed by everyone. We’ve used the newly developed enzymes to remove unwanted gluten, Peckham Helles is classified as gluten reduced/free, without the use of non-traditional brewing grains such as sorghum or maize. Peckham Helles is an unadulterated classic Bavarian helles lager, knowing that the best lagers are simple lagers we use only German Pilsner malt for its delicate sweetness and straw gold appearance. This is combined with classic noble hop aroma from our favourite German varietal Hallertau Mittelfrüh. Fermented and conditioned slowly to develop a subdued floral yeast character and filtered for crystal clarity, Peckham Helles is designed simply for drinking, not thinking.

This Peckham Helles has a soft bitterness with light, fruity yeast esters and herbal spice. Refreshing and moreish with a clean and crisp finish. Available in 330ml cans and keg from this week!