This summer is definitely the season of the sun-soaked beer festival with many taking place across the city centre and further affield. This month saw the return of the Nottingham Craft Beer festival with many local and international breweries taking part.
"We formed the brewery in 2017 but we didn't start selling any beer until the following year. We were still brewing in my shed on a 20-litre homebrew kit so to get one cask out we would have to double brew. We weren't making a great deal of beer then so we rented a kit from Mr Grundy's in Derby which allowed us to get 12 casks out per brew. We started to gain a bit of a reputation after that.
"Simon King from Abstract Jungle Brewery at Langley Mill got in touch to say he was thinking about winding up the brewery and asked if we wanted to buy it. It was too good of an opportunity not to so that was in 2019. Obviously, in 2020, things went a bit skewwhiff and pear-shaped," he said. As the world opens back up, demand has once again picked up so Nigel is now taking on the job full time and starting over after lockdown life and finding routine in the new normal.