40ft Brewery Dalston

Really nicely hidden brewery. Beer is 100%. Lot of choices. Plenty of seatings, well situated with food places around it, so you can drink and will not be hungry either. Little too loud for my liking.

Very good brewery taproom about five minutes walk from Dalston Junction Station. One cask beer on handpump when I visited but plenty of keg choices including a stout. Lots of outdoor covered seating. Food is available on the site via a restaurant called Acme Fire Cult.

Awesome taproom, everything tasting on point and good to see their beers pouring alongside other independent brands like Crafty Blends and Gosnell's and In the same yard as Acme Fire Cult and the Dusty Knuckle, what more could you want.

An amazing small tap room serving up one of the best pilsners available in London. Friendly staff, good food. Will be back.

Zesty, zingy, hoppy and very much a modern craft beer range. Even the stout. No keg available, which was disappointing. In fact, the complete lack of fresh beer kind of makes the tap yard pointless. Why visit a brewery to try their beer when all you have available is something that could be drunk from a can anywhere in the world? Nice covered seating area, in a somewhat industrial fashion. Otherwise, a neat idea and always nice to support local independent brewers.

Thanks to all at 40ft Brewery and Acme Fire Cult for an amazing night. We arrived at 7pm on a busy Friday night to sample the beers and then had a dinner reservation at 8pm in Acme Fire Cult. We recommend arriving early as the brewery/bar/tap rooms is as authentic as it comes. If you can sneak a tour then it’s even more special. It’s located down a small alley and you walk around 30m from the main road not knowing what to expect and then you arrive at this little secret village at the bottom. Amazing atmosphere and vibes. Really cool set up. Has to be experienced to appreciate it. The beers are top notch and brewed around 20m from where you get served. Super fresh and a huge range of choice. The staff were helpful in explaining what each beer which helped us choose. We were allowed bring our beer across to the restaurant. We then walked across to Acme Fire Cult for dinner which is practically in the same space as the tap room. One of us is vegetarian and we chose 7 small plates from the menu tapas style. Can’t say enough good things about the food. So much choice and flavour. The grilled hispi cabbage and smoky potatoes were so tasty. The butter style cauliflower was my personal favourite. We were absolutely stuffed leaving. Just want to give a shout out to all the staff in brewery and restaurant who were very busy but gave us a fantastic service. We were made feel like a couple of celebs despite having only skipped in off the street. Highly recommend.

We made the unfortunate decision to visit 40FT Brewery and Taproom with the intention of supporting what we assumed was a reputable local business. Before heading out, we double-checked Google for the opening hours and clearly listed as open until 10pm. After a 40-minute walk across the city, we arrived at 8pm to find… absolutely no one. No staff. No signage. No explanation. Just two people loitering outside who casually told us the place was closed. This lack of basic communication is already unacceptable for any establishment claiming to be in the service industry. But what truly crosses the line… and I don’t say this lightly… is the owner personally reaching out to my friend Regan and pressuring her to take down her honest review. That is not just unprofessional, it's unethical. Attempting to silence valid criticism instead of taking accountability shows exactly what kind of business this is. If your response to constructive feedback is to bury it rather than fix the problem, then you don’t deserve the communities support. Consumers deserve transparency, reliability, and respect… not ghost towns and guilt trips.

Really nice independent brewery/taproom with friendly bar staff eager to offer recommendations. Like all indies worth their salt, has a surprisingly diverse rotating roster of lager, IPA, cider, mead and sours. The times I’ve been, I’ve had a fruited mead from Gosnells, a cider from Kentish Pip and of course lots from 40Ft’s own selection (which is IPA dominant). The venue is cosy and is surrounded with a tarp in the colder months. Loos are alright. Venue appears to be dog friendly. Also, the venue hosts indie pop ups such as the excellent Mystic Burek (Balkan-Macedonian sweet and savoury pastries) to name an example.

Cool brewery with good beers and really nice and friendly bartender (deserving the fifth star in the review). I had a pint of stout which was good and easy to drink. I also had a try of a Pale Ale which was very well brewed.

Me and my friend Tareq A fancied going for yet another drink after the 'London's Worst Gameshow' Yelp event. Loading was rammed so Tareq, knowing the area better than I, said we should go to this place he knew where they brewed their own drinks. I was totally up for that. So off we went to 40FT Brewery. What first struck me about this place was the packets of hops casually lying at the entrance. Pretty hardcore! What next struck me was how nice everyone was. The staff genuinely wanted to talk to us and let us bend their ear with drunkenly rambling about what a good time we'd had at the gameshow event. They were super accommodating about letting us try their beers too, and even gave us a few freebies! We tried the 'Larger' (an interesting new take on lager), some dark drink I can't remember the name of (it was nice though!) and, ofcourse, 40FT Brewery's signature tinned Pale Ale. The team took us on a tour of the brewery, and explained the whole brewing process to us. It was very interesting, although probably not something I'll be trying soon. I think I'll leave it to the experts! Lovely place, lovely people, lovely brew! I rarely go to Dalston to be honest but if I do find myself there again I will make it my mission to return!

Situated somewhere between Dalston Junction and Dalston Kingsland is a disused carpark. This hardly seems surprising in East London, but there's more: shipping containers. Repurposed 40 foot shipping containers stacked like Tetris blocks, creating a space for a fully operational brewery and taproom. And that disused carpark? Well, it offers the perfect outdoor space for a hideout beer garden, replete with room for a pop-up DJ booth and street food vendors. Like an oasis hidden from the high street- located behind the Arcola Theatre and impossible to merely stumble upon- this is a real East London pearl. Firstly, the space is quirky: the taproom is more of a small, makeshift bar where the beers on keg are modestly advertised on a propped-up chalkboard. Not much information about the drinks is inferable through the minimalist branding or décor, meaning that customers must engage with the enthusiastic staff who- incidentally- are also the owners of the brewery. Just mention that it's your first visit and you'll be spirited away on a whirlwind tour of the brewing space. It's a very brief tour- literally lasting a few minutes- but the ingenuity employed in their use of space is venerable. The lure of the 40ft brewery is that this isn't just a gimmick. The shipping containers are a practical solution for the four owners, allowing them to fashion the space necessary to launch their range in East London in the most affordable and versatile way; the problem of how they will expand their operations still lingers, but since launching the brewery, two more containers have been added. So there's certainly still some room for growth. Idiosyncrasies of the brewery aside, the crux of 40ft's success is their beer. Their flagship beer is the Larger (which-confusingly- is *not* a lager, but actually a Kolsch style beer). Tip: don't fall for the rookie mistake of presuming that it's misspelled on the board. Instead, do order a 'Larger' and you'll be rewarded with a cheeky smile from the bar. This is an exemplary unfiltered beer with a clean, floral aroma and a smooth taste of citrus (Lemon Drop) hops with a hint of earthiness and dry finish. Their Pale Ale is an American style pale ale, bold but not too aggressive on the palate and a good session beer with an ABV of 4.1%. The most recent addition to the core range is the Deep, a full-bodied Irish stout with notes of dark chocolate, coffee and raisins. A Berliner weisse style beer, the Street Weisse, is still being perfected and will likely become a regular offering by the summer, and some pilot brews (including a smoked larger) are in the pipeline. The taproom is open Friday and Saturday from 17:00 to 22:00, but these are seasonal hours. More events are being planned as the weather improves, including live music and the prospect of a mini festival in conjunction with other local East London breweries. Your best bet is to join the Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/40ftbrewery) and follow the movements of this enigmatic troupe there. It won't be long before 40ft catches on and they burst from the humble confines of their shipping containers. In the meanwhile, this is a sure-fire destination for an excellent pint of beer in a setting that you can't help but admire...and Instagram. Welcome to East London.