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Having started as a tiny brewery and micropub in N22, Bohem moved to Tottenham in 2018, close to the Redemption and One Mile End breweries and the brewery expanded to a capacity of 36 hectolitres (22 barrels). However, from brewing to delivery, each of their beers takes between five and eight weeks because of the need to lager the beer. Glynn Davis, one of the shareholders, said, \u201cThis means we can\u2019t react quickly, so producing one off beers every week, as some ale brewers do, is not really feasible, although we have done some collaborations in the past. Amos (4.9% ABV Pilsner) is the house lager in a number of outlets. This beer accounts for around 70% of our volume. Dark lagers are mostly sold as one offs through agencies such as Eebria but they do sell well in our Tap Room<\/em>.\u201d Glynn added, \u201cWe also have an amber lager, called Spartan. Most of the flavour comes from the malts and we find that cask beer lovers will drink it when we don\u2019t have a black lager on<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Tap Room is run by Marek Prusa, who is another share- holder and a certified Pilsner Urquell Tapster. Bohem had started to look for another outlet but stopped when lockdown hit. \u201cOur capital was all tied up in the beer\u201d said Glynn, \u201cbut we hope to start the search again once things are back to normal<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fresh beer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the heart of Bohem\u2019s approach is freshness and, although they did produce cans (including five litre kegs) during lockdown, it isn\u2019t really key to their production. Glynn said, \u201cIt\u2019s been almost a marketing exercise, keeping people employed and having something to sell with our name on it. We have been fortunate that One Mile End have been able to do our canning for us. We simply take our small wheelie tank and push it from us to them to fill. The beer is unfiltered and unpasteurised so there is a short shelf life<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u2018fresh\u2019 approach is also true for their draught beer; anything older than five months is thrown away. Matej said, \u201cBohem is 100% about quality and we are paranoid about how our beer is stored.\u201d For this reason, they tend not to use third party distributors because they can\u2019t control the freshness. Glynn explained, \u201cControlling our own deliveries means that we can control the quality. We also found that we could supply outlets within the M25 cheaper than a wholesaler<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image-11.png\")
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