For over a decade, Crate has led East London’s craft beer scene — now we’re shaking things up. Our brand-new soda-based cocktail range brings bold, fruit-forward taste with a lighter, more refreshing drinking experience.

Made with real ingredients, and 100% vegan and gluten-free, these sessionable drinks are built for everything from park hangs to canal-side parties. Featuring innovative touches like Koji and Yuzu, Crate Soda Cocktails are already flying from the fridges, and this is just the beginning.

From the bar to the boardroom, Crate is driven by an incredible team of women shaping the future of East London’s food, drink, and hospo scene. In this feature, we spotlight the inspiring leaders, chefs, and behind-the-scenes stars who make Crate what it is — a vibrant, inclusive, and forward thinking venue. Join us as we raise a glass to the women bringing passion and purpose to everything we do.

It’s bold, it’s rich, and it has a history as deep as its colour. From roots as a nourishing brew for hardworking folks, to becoming a staple of the modern beer world, stout has come a long way in its lifetime. In this blog post, we’re diving into the history and recent buzz around stout, touching on Guinness’s marketing genius that has strengthened the drink's popularity among new and diverse beer drinkers, and finishing with a quick look into our very own version of a classic.  How it started In 17th-century England, ‘stout’ didn’t mean dark beer - it meant...

Welcome to Silo's fermentation factory! It’s soon to be a hive of microbial activity, creating macro waves on the food waste frontier. 

The output? So far, CRATE’s delicious Amazake and Gooseberry Sour. Using koji to produce amazake - a sweet, low alcohol fermented rice elixir - and adding it to the gooseberry sour beer brew really rounds out the sharpness, creating a subtle and more full drinking experience. 

Craft beer trends of late have seen us demanding for yet more flavour from our regular order. Perhaps due to the inescapable cost of living crisis, many are opting for high quality, savourable pints - if we’re spending our hard earned cash on nice-to-haves, we want to know they’re going to be delicious! Enter the hazy pale… Hazy pales generally have low bitterness and a full, edging on fruity profile, with a touch of sweetness and, as the name suggests, a degree of haze.  The haze factor in hazy pales can be anything from just off transparent, all the way...

The world of sustainability has moved on from ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’. Nowadays, two more guiding “Rs” are incorporated: ‘Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot’. With this in mind, single use wine bottles have stumped many green-minded hospitality businesses. Recycle sounds like problem solved, sure, but what about the energy required to take a wine bottle away, turn it back into sand, only to rise from the ashes as a very similar looking wine bottle? With no or few other options to Refuse or Reduce (short of not drinking wine at all - the horror!), Sustainable Wine Solutions - the brainchild of...