Blue Monkey Brewery Blue Monkey Brewery Blue Monkey Brewery is a 20 barrel microbrewery located on the border of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Founded in Ilkeston in 2008, the company doubled its capacity and moved to Giltbrook in 2010. It produces award-winning beers, including Ape Ale and Guerrilla Porter. It currently has four outlets; The Organ Grinder Nottingham, The Organ Grinder Loughborough, The Organ Grinder Newark and The Coffee Grinder Arnold Blue Monkey Brewery was founded in the Manners Industrial Estate, Ilkeston on 8 October 2008 by John Hickling, with a capacity of ten barrels. Prior to the brewery venture, Hickling worked in a
Northumberland Brewery Northumberland Brewery Northumberland Brewery is a small brewery which was located in Bomarsund, near Bedlington in Northumberland, England. It produces cask ale. The building was used as a school, community centre, factory and to house prisoners of war during the Second World War. The Brewery opened in 1996 with a selection of five beers, "Northumberland Castles" (3.8% abv), "Northumberland County" (4.2%), "Northumberland Best" (4.2%) and "Duke of Northumberland Premium" (5.0%). It currently serves nearly 60 cask ales. The names of most of the beer produced at the Northumberland Brewery is named after local people and places, such as "Mackem's Shovel