Breweries around Derby

Black Hole was established 2007 with a 10-barrel plant in the former Ind Coope bottling stores, Burton-on-Trent (now demolished), but moved to its current location in 2017. Its fermenting capacity of... View

Derby's oldest brewery. It is a 10-barrel tower plant built as an extension to the Brunswick Inn in 1991. Bought by Everards in 2002, the brewery is now run separately, yet in conjunction with the pub... View

Dancing Duck was established in 2010 by Rachel Mathews using a 10-barrel brew plant. Its name comes from the local greeting 'ay up me duck'. The Exeter Arms in Derby is the brewery tap. View

A family-run microbrewery, established in 2004 in the old Masons paintworks varnish shed by Trevor Harris, founder and former brewer at the Brunswick Inn, Derby (qv). The business has grown over the y... View

A 200-litre nanobrewery offering cask and cans, with keg beers planned. Both craft and traditional style brews are produced, made to its own unique recipes. View

Attached to the Falstaff freehouse, the brewery dates from 1999 but was refurbished and reopened in 2003 under new management as a 3.5-barrel plant. Updated again in 2017, it now operates as a six-bar... View

Six-barrel brewhouse in the beer garden of the Furnace Inn on Duke Street. Supply is mainly for the pub, but beers can be seen at beer festivals and specialist pubs across the UK. View

Established in 2015 as Littleover Brewery, in 2020 it changed hands and in 2022 rebranded as Little Brewing Company. It brews three days a week on a ten-barrel plant. It supplies direct to local outle... View

Fully refurbished in 2020, this brewery is incorporated into the Spirit Vaults, Melbourne (formerly the Blue Bell Inn, brewery tap for Shardlow brewery), and can be viewed from within the pub. It prod... View

In 2015 two friends, Richard Burton and Colin Fryer, began homebrewing in a back garden shed. Five years later they decided to sell commercially, and production increased accordingly. The 0.25-barrel... View

Brewing commenced in 2012 using a six-barrel plant sited in the beer garden of the Furnace Inn, Derby. After initially brewing solely for the pub, 2014 saw an increase in scale and output, with beers... View