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Pressure Drop Brewing

United Kingdom · Regional · Known for a full range of styles
Known for a full range of styles

Pressure Drop Brewing is an independent brewery in Tottenham Hale, north London. Graham O'Brien, Sam Smith and Ben Freeman began in a garden shed in Stoke Newington, moved into a railway arch in Hackney in 2013 and have brewed on a 20-barrel plant at the present site since 2017. The pale ale Pale Fire has long been the mainstay; around it runs a steady flow of hazy pale ales and IPAs under changing names, joined by lagers, porters and fruited sours. A team of about ten brews and packages everything on site, mainly for keg and can.

6Beers
4Styles
5.3%Avg ABV
2013Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
0%
catalogue avg 46%

Beers by Pressure Drop Brewing

6 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Pressure Drop Brewing brew a broad range across 4 style families.

Signature · 6 beers
IPA 2Pale Ale 2Lager 1Porter 1

Across these 6 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

citrusyevery beer
6 of 6 beers
fruity
5 of 6 beers
bitter
5 of 6 beers
hoppy
4 of 6 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:

typical for similar stylesPressure Drop Brewing
in no beersin every beer
citrusy
in all 6 of their beers · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Notably more citrusy than typical.
How we measure this

Two thresholds are at work here:

  • The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
  • The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.

A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 62%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
1 / 6
beers above the median
#3195
best ranked beer
King Queen Knave

Their beers place in the Top 62% of the catalogue on average, across 6 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Pressure Drop Brewing

Pressure Drop Brewing is an independent brewery in Tottenham Hale, north London. Graham O'Brien, Sam Smith and Ben Freeman began in a garden shed in Stoke Newington, moved into a railway arch in Hackney in 2013 and have brewed on a 20-barrel plant at the present site since 2017. The pale ale Pale Fire has long been the mainstay; around it runs a steady flow of hazy pale ales and IPAs under changing names, joined by lagers, porters and fruited sours. A team of about ten brews and packages everything on site, mainly for keg and can.

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