Leeds-based North Bar and the team behind the Belgrave Music Hall and Headrow Househave opened a 15-barrel brewery with a 200-person capacity tap room.
The new brewery has now opened at the Taverner’s Walk Industrial Estate on the fringe of Leeds city centre and will initially service the eight bars currently operated between the two bar groups. Brewers Seb Brink (formerly of Golden Owl) and Darius Darwell (of Bristol Beer Factory) are heading up the facility.
Christian Townsley, director of North Brewing Co, said: “We’ve been talking about opening a brewery for over ten years, to finally see it become reality is amazing and we’re all really excited about the future.”
“We see North Brewing Company as the next logical step in our business growth, but it doesn’t come without a challenge as over the last eighteen years our customers have come to expect only the best from us. We believe that even in the current competitive climate in British brewing there’s an opportunity for a team willing to produce well crafted classics as well as more challenging beer styles.”
John Gyngell, Director of North Bar Ltd, said: “In our group of bars we have commercial customers ready and waiting for our product, giving us the opportunity to develop our products quickly and under the scrutiny of the most refined palates. In the tap we have an exciting new venue that we worked hard to ensure still felt like a part of the brewery, we wanted that ‘Willy Wonka’ feel.”
