Note1 May 2026 · Chelmsford · Radio City Beer Works · 7 Deadly Sins

Radio City turns seven

7 cans, 7 sins, 35 launch venues, and one big Saturday in Chelmsford

Saturday 9 May 2026, Radio City Beer Works marks its seventh birthday with what we think is the biggest release it has put its name to yet: seven collaboration beers, one for each deadly sin, brewed in Essex with seven different UK breweries and launched across 35 first-pour venues two days before the main brewery party.

For Chelmsford drinkers, it's a snapshot of how far Radio City has come in seven years, from local brewery to a name confident enough to pull collaborators from Nottingham, York, Lewes, Norwich, Manchester, Hampshire and Berkshire, and to launch the resulting range nationwide as well as over its own bar.

The cans go live on Thursday 7 May. The brewery party follows on Saturday 9 May at Radley Green, with all seven beers on tap, four more alongside them, live music, street food, beer pong, table football, and a shuttle bus running between Radio City Social in the city centre and the brewery.

The seven beers

Each beer pairs one sin with one collaborating brewery, and the line-up tells you something about Radio City's own peer group.

Read as a list, there's a nice intelligence to the spread. Sureshot's Envy NEIPA and Ampersand's Wrath Southern Hemisphere IPA bracket the hop-forward spectrum from opposite directions. Greed at 8% and Gluttony at 8.4% are the heavyweights, a DIPA and an imperial stout for late in the evening. Lust's strawberry vanilla pastry sour from Black Iris is the mid-session reset, and Pride's NZ West Coast Pilsner from Elusive is the early-doors palate-cleaner. Sloth's hazy pale at 4.8% is the only one you can comfortably have more than once. It could have been a random collab dump. It reads like the arc of a real long afternoon.

The brewery party · Saturday 9 May

7th Birthday Bash

Radio City Beer Works, Radley Green, Chelmsford CM4 0LR

£5 ticket

Buy tickets at rcbw.shop → Brewery on Google Maps →

The Saturday event is the anchor point: 11 taps, including the full Seven Deadly Sins range, plus tank-fresh tasting, live music, street food, beer pong, table football, and a shuttle bus from Chelmsford city centre.

The brewery sits out in Radley Green, roughly nine miles from central Chelmsford, which makes the shuttle the practical answer for most people. It runs both ways from Radio City Social on Viaduct Road, a short walk from Chelmsford station.

This is the third birthday bash Radio City has staged on-site, after the fifth in 2024 first opened the brewery to guests. With seven new beers and seven guest breweries behind it, this one should draw the kind of crowd that already treats Radio City Social as the natural end point of a Chelmsford Saturday.

The 35 launch venues · cans go live Thursday 7 May

The cans and first pours land on Thursday 7 May across the 35 launch venues Radio City announced, spread across Essex, East Anglia, London, the South and the North. We have been able to identify 34 of them.

View the launch venues by region →

Why this matters for Chelmsford

As we remember it, Chelmsford barely had a craft scene fifteen years ago, and Radio City have become one of the engines of the one it has now. The city has a real beer mile, a serious specialist venue in Radio City Social, and an independent brewery close enough to feel local but ambitious enough to pull in collaborators from across the country.

If you've ever ended a Chelmsford crawl at Radio City Social and felt that it represented the modern version of the city's beer scene, this is the brewery-scale version of the same thought.

If you're going

If you're heading to the brewery on Saturday, book the shuttle. It is cheap, and buses run throughout the day, so pick whichever pair of slots fits your day. Book both legs at the same time on rcbw.shop.

If you're not making the party, the cans are the main event. From Thursday 7 May, find the nearest launch venue and start there. If you want to track specific beers, PINtPOINT's Beer Alerts can watch for any of the seven sins and flag them when they land on tap nearby.

Seven years, seven beers, thirty-five launch venues.

Full disclosure: independent editorial. We have no commercial relationship with Radio City Beer Works or any of the collaborator breweries. Launch-venue list compiled from Radio City Beer Works' own announcements via @radiocitybw and @radiocitysocial on 1 May 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Who are Radio City Beer Works?

Radio City Beer Works is an independent brewery based in Radley Green, just outside Chelmsford in Essex. Their city-centre bar, Radio City Social, is one of the anchor venues on the Chelmsford Beer Mile.

What are the Seven Deadly Sins beers?

A seven-beer birthday collaboration series: one beer per sin, each brewed with a different UK brewery.

When do the beers launch?

The cans and first pours go live on Thursday 7 May 2026. The main brewery birthday event is on Saturday 9 May 2026.

How do I get to the brewery party?

Tickets are via rcbw.shop. A shuttle bus runs from Radio City Social in Chelmsford to the brewery and back. Book both directions.

Can PINtPOINT help me find the beers?

Yes. Tap through to participating venues and use Beer Alerts to track specific beers as they appear on tap nearby.