Christine Cryne and Liz Brodie in the Coffee House Soho

Brodie’s, the East London brewery, is brewing up a Brainwave! Expert brewers, brother and sister Jamie and Liz Brodie, have decided to brew a beer and give all the profits to children’s charity, Brainwave.

The beer, named after the Charity, is 3.1% alcohol content and is described by Jamie as “easy drinking, super light, hoppy beer flavored with lots of Columbus hops, which gives it a fruity aroma”.

Brainwave, established in 1982, works with families to deliver individual, home based therapy and exercises for children with disabilities and Development Delay to reach their full potential. This can be anything from walking to recognising numbers. The charity looks after a whole range of children with conditions including Cerebral Palsy, Down’s syndrome and Autism. Families from all over London visit its Centre in Witham, Essex, about 50 minutes out of Liverpool Street.

Christine Cryne, Brainwave’s Chief Executive Officer, said “Enquiries to Brainwave about our services have been growing at 30% a year and we have almost doubled the number of families on our Programmes in five years. We receive no funding from Government and so donations like this are invaluable to us. We are really grateful to Brodie’s for thinking of us and as a CAMRA member myself, I’m really looking forward to trying it. We hope too that this will help raise our awareness in London to get to the families who need our help”.

The beer will be available at the King Charles I, Northdown Street, N1, Wenlock, Wenlock Road, N1, Old Fountain, Baldwin Street EC1, Cross Keys in Covent Garden, the Old Coffee House in Soho, and, of course, their brewery tap, The William IV in Leyton; see www.brodiesbeers.co.uk.

Jamie and Liz Brodie and Christine Cryne are available for radio interviews.