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The Magpie Brewery is a new enterprise starting up in the centre of a once great brewing city. The brewery is situated at Unit 4 Ashling Court off Iremonger Road in Nottingham.
We are within a few meters of the perimeter wall around the Notts County ground, hence the name of the brewery! However, all football fans, indeed all beer fans, are very welcome to visit this website and indeed sample our beers. We will try to keep you informed about where you can sample a pint (or two).
The brewery is owned and run by three friends, Bob Douglas, Ken Morrison and Nick Sewter. We are all retired from our "day jobs", Nick was a teacher in his previous existence, Ken and Bob both worked for industrial relations troubleshooters, Acas. The news archive page has a reprint of an article from the Nottingham Evening Post when Bob left Acas. One for
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Come to The Globe in June We are featuring at The Globes' "Meet The Brewer" night on Wednesday June 1st along with several of our beers and some excellent samosas. There will be four or five of our beers on offer and we will be around to answer any questions and test the beers. We hope to see you there. The Future, cont'd Regular viewers of this site will realise that the last couple of months have been quite difficult for everyone connected with the brewery - we have a large hole to fill and we have lost a good friend. However, we are now trying to look forward and can announce that we have employed Gavin Morrison (Ken's son!) as of last Monday. Gavin is currently engaged in the task of learning the business - this involves watching how Nick and/or Bob do things and then working out for himself how they should be done. At the same time, we have been increasing the productive capacity of the brewery, basically by increasing the storage space, both for beer and also for key production equipment (otherwise known as junk), and also by ordering some new kit including a new fermenter. The building work is more or less complete and the fermenter should be with us by the end of February. Going forward, all of this should mean that we have more of our regular and seasonal beers available at any one time and also that we should have more scope for a few experiments with other (English sourced!) ingredients. Watch this space for more details. The photos show the new team and also some of the (upstairs) building
work.
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