The Park Brewery is launching a new beer, sourced straight from the community, at the Tap Room at 6pm on October 5.  

Local groups Sunflower Streets Residents Association and Norbiton Focus inspired the beer's name as 'The Wanderings', after the former farm site the brewery sits on.  

Wanderings Farm, with its 200-year-old farmhouse, were demolished in the 1950s but its meadows stretched right down to what is now the Kingsmeadow area. The farm's own name perhaps links to the "rare use of wandering to describe an out-of-the-way, inaccessible place". 

Made exclusively with local wild hops, all within two miles of the brewery (Kingston and Surbiton) in private and community gardens, the beer is a 4% golden ale, with delicate, light and spicy notes. 

Not only did The Park Brewery have its own plant, it received contributions from Glen (BRaG), Canbury Community Gardens and a mysterious man from Surbiton who dropped some hops off.  

"If you have hops growing in your garden or allotment (or would like to start growing them) please let us know," The Park Brewery said in a statement. "The intention is to roll this out annually and increase the hop count, year on year." 

It added: "Apparently, there are 24 co-operative hop growing schemes in the UK - it would be fantastic, to increase that number, officially, to 25."