We’re getting involved in some fun events in the next few weeks.

The World Street Food Festival is on from 1-5 June, over the Jubilee weekend, at the Southbank Centre down by the Thames. There’s a really great range of street food there (check out the list and get hungry and then get thirsty for a beer to go with it!). It’s also a great place to watch Sunday’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the river – grab some beers to go with it! We’ll be there pouring beer on all five days.

Every Friday night in June and July there’ll be Camden Town beer on the bar at Zoo Lates at London Zoo. The London Brewers Alliance all supply beer into a bar there so there’ll be lots of local beer to choose from while you wander around (drinking beer in a zoo late at night is damn good fun!).

Also happening every Friday (if you like drinking Camden Town beer, in unsual and awesome places, on a Friday night then you’re in luck!) is Street Feast. A car park with a bar and loads of great street food traders. Check it out – it’s brilliant!

The Brewery Bar is open every Friday from 4pm. And this weekend, 2-3 June, there’s a keg takeover at The Horseshoe featuring some fantastic London beer and some great food – don’t miss it because some of those beers you’ll never drink on keg again!

This is just the start of a busy summer at the brewery!

To celebrate the Queen having been on the throne for a very long time, over the Jubilee weekend we’ve got some of London’s best beers taking over the taps at The Horseshoe, in Hampstead.

All the beer will be served on keg, including some that have never been available on keg before and others which are so rare you’ve probably never seen them before. We’ve got: Fuller’s (Bengal Lancer, London Porter, ESB), Redemption (Trinity, Hopspur), The Kernel (Pale Ale Chinook), By The Horns (Stiff Upper Lip, Diamond Geezer), Beaver Town (8 Ball Rye IPA) and a bunch of brews from Camden Town. We already can’t wait to drink all of these beers!

Next to these we’ve got Big Apple Hot Dogs on the grill plus Red Poll burgers which are made from cattle which have been fed with the grain we have leftover after brewing – a pint of beer with a burger and you’ve completed a happy beer circle.

The Horseshoe (28 Heath Street – map below) is pouring the London kegs on Saturday 2 June and Sunday 3 June (and then until they run out, which won’t be long!). Get them while you can!

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Here’s something new for the Brewery Bar: The One Keg Project.

We take fresh, hopped wort (the sweet-bitter liquid that goes into the fermenter for yeast to turn into beer) and put it into a 50-litre keg which we’ve modified into a makeshift mini-fermenter. Then we add a yeast strain and chuck in more hops or other ingredients and leave it for two weeks before transferring it to a 30-litre keg and putting it on the bar… Sounds cool, right?

It’s our chance to play around and experiment with different ingredients, different hop combinations and different yeast strains. We plan on doing new One Keg beers as often as possible and they’ll only be available at the Brewery Bar.

The first beer is ready and will be on the bar this Friday. There is only one 30-litre keg of it and when it’s gone then it’s gone. This Friday we’ve got Hells wort fermented with our pale ale yeast and dry-hopped with outrageous amounts of Amarillo and Citra. Brilliant! If you liked USA Hells then you’ll love this.

We can combine anything in the keg fermenter as long as it’s based on the hopped wort from a Camden Town Beer. So it’s: wort + yeast + hops (+ any other ingredients). What One Keg beers would you make?

One Keg One: Hells wort + Pale ale yeast + Amarillo and Citra. Friday 18^th May.

Are you thinking about beer right now? Would you rather your office was filled with fermenters instead of photocopiers? How would you like to be part of the team at Camden Town Brewery?

Here’s the deal: there’s only a few of us who work at the brewery and as we get bigger, and do more and more exciting things, we need help to make them all happen. So we’re looking for a small team to join us at the brewery. We’re looking for people who probably already have a day job but want to do something a little different in the evenings or at weekend; people who care about beer, who want to talk about beer and share it with others, people who want to be involved in the industry on the other side of the bar from the drinkers.

Come and join us as a Camden Town Brewery on our Street Team. We’ll teach you everything you need to know about the brewery, the beers and how and why we make them. We’ll give you clothes, we’ll give you beer and we’ll even pay you (don’t expect to get rich but it’ll pay for a night out). It’s open to anyone, we just want people who love beer enough to dedicate their spare time to working for a brewery whether that’s shifts on the brewery bar or running outside events. There might not be work every week and you aren’t forced into working when you don’t want to, but there should be plenty of opportunities to get involved with interesting things.

Here’s how you can join the team: we need one reason why you want to be on the Camden Street Team. You can send us that reason by email (mark@camdentownbrewery.com), tweet or facebook, you can blog it, draw it, make a video, paint a billboard or write it in the sky. Whatever. Just give us one reason why you love beer and want to be part of our team. Somewhere in there you need to include the words: Camden Town Street Team.

Send things in to us before the end of May. We can get you working here right away.

The Brewery Bar is now open every Friday. We’re still finishing a few things off: we’re getting some tables, some artwork is going up on the walls and a fridge is coming in to be filled with bottles.

We’ll soon be extending the opening hours, hopefully to Thursday to Saturday. There’ll always be a food offer on the street outside – sometimes one trader and sometimes more – and Big Apple Hot Dogs will be here every Friday (and Saturday once we open).

We now have proper beer glasses for the bar and when we’re not too busy we’ll be using them. Wine and spirits are available – a small selection of good products.

We want to create a great venue for people to stop by and have a relaxed beer in the brewery. There’ll be brewery tours held (we’ll probably start charging a fiver and for that you’ll get a pint at the bar after). We’ll launch new beers here plus a few big events each year – beer festivals and things like that.

On the nights that we’ve opened so far we’ve noticed a few issues (we were also slightly overwhelmed by how many people have turned up each time!). One problem is the queue for beer. The other is the line for the ladies’ toilet. We’re working on these…

But what else do you want to see from a brewery bar? What do you expect from a brewery tour? What kind of events would you like? What beers would you like to see on the bar?