An Afternoon With Atom Brewery

Originally published in the Nov 2016 edition of the Hullfire.

The award winning Atom Brewery are the one of the best independent brewery’s in Hull and East Yorkshire and ship their wide range of experimental and flavoursome beers worldwide. One of their beers Phobos and Deimos RIPA is rated as the best beer in East Yorkshire at the moment on RateBeer and their unique style and approach has got them acclaim all over the market. I had the chance to go down to their Sutton Fields brewery and have a chat with self-confessed beer geeks and founder and head brewer respectively Allan Rice and Jack Walker.

Former University of Hull student Jack showed me briefly around the workshop floor of the brew house when I arrived. There was a distinct wheaty aroma throughout the brewery that was apparently unnoticeable to Jack after so long. I was surrounded by enormous tanks that each had a different affectionate name given to them. Some were for fermenting, some for conditioning. I even got to try a little beer straight from one of the cold room tanks. It was apparently not quite ready and a little too hoppy for that particular recipe but it was nonetheless refreshing and there was definitely a satisfaction in drinking something essentially straight from the source.