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
Shotover Brewery Shotover Brewery The Shotover Brewing Company is a microbrewery in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, founded in 2009. The brewery has an 8bbl (1300 litre)brew length and has a core range of four ales (Prospect 3.7% abv, Trinity 4.2% abv, Scholar 4.5% abv, and Oxford Porter 5% abv,) sold in cask and as bottle conditioned ale. Trinity was voted CAMRA Champion Beer of Oxfordshire 2014/15. The brewery also occasionally produces special historic beers. Examples include Plot 16 IPA in collaboration with Modern Art Oxford which was green hopped with fuggle hops from the Plot 16 community art project at Rose Hill, Oxford,