Nottingham Creative Community News

We Hear From the Duo Behind Hockley Helles, the Nottingham Lager Going Head-To-Head With Heineken and Amstel

We chat to Nottingham Trent University graduates Will Barratt and Al Squires - the brains behind Hockley Brew Co - about their...

Black Iris Brewery’s Director Alex Wilson on Producing Beers for Ten Years

26 February 21

Black Iris Brewery celebrate their tenth birthday later this year. We caught up with Director Alex Wilson to talk artwork, music, history and that time that they raised a smile from Sandi Toksvig and Alan Davies...

Robin Hood Beer And Cider Festival Set For 2021 Trent Bridge Switch

15 February 21

Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival, Nottingham CAMRA’s flagship annual event, has secured a new home at Trent Bridge cricket ground.

The Art of Beer's Seth Smith Has Drawn 41 of Our City's Best Boozers

16 July 20

Meet Seth Smith, aka the Art of Beer. He’s spent the last half-decade creating illustrations inspired by the nation’s favourite alcoholic beverage. This year he’s drawn 41 of the city's best boozers in conjunction with Nottingham Craft Beer Week and soon they’ll be available as free postcards at a pub near you…

Nottingham Pubs, Bars and Breweries Now Offering Take-Out, Collection and Online Deals

19 March 20

This page is being constantly updated, so we will provide you with the latest news and offers when we can....

The Best Moments of Nottingham Craft Beer Festival 2019

18 June 19

A few of our favourite snaps from Nottingham Craft Beer Festival 2019...

We've Made A Beer With Castle Rock Called Guzzgog

12 October 18

The Rescue Rooms Beer Festival 2018 is This Sunday

24 August 18

After last year’s inaugural beer festival, Rescue Rooms are back at it again this Bank Holiday weekend.

The Nottingham Pubs and Bars Quiz

17 July 18

How many Nottingham pubs and bars can you recognise from the interior?

Noshingham: Craft Beer Week Spesh

14 June 18

This week is Craft Beer Week in Notts, where we celebrate our love of the good stuff. We popped down to some participating venues to see whether the scran was as good as the slosh...

Nottingham Craft Beer Festival is Happening in Sneinton Market

23 April 18

The secret is out. We’re gerrin’ involved in summat exciting, soon to hit the avenues...

Happy 230th Birthday Lord Byron! Here, Have a Beer.

22 January 18

Monday 22 January 2018 marks the 230th anniversary of the birth of Nottingham’s most notorious literary legend, the mad, bad and dangerous to know poet, Lord Byron...

Rescue Rooms Beer Festival

16 August 17

"Shave the head off the top, duck"

Meet the Two Notts Students Breaking into the Brewing World

19 June 17

Ashley Wadeson and Dan Boxall don’t do things by halves – more like by the gallon. As the two MSc Brewing Science students prepare to launch their new collaborative beer with Black Iris Brewery as part of their course, they tell us more about probably the coolest dissertation project in the world, why they’re a hit at house parties, and their plans for beery world domination…

11 Bangin' Beer Gardens in Notts

31 May 17

The old weather man is having a right laugh; sun one day, rain all week. That there Summer is being a right tease. But that doesn’t mean we can’t plan ahead for those rare days of sunshine and know exactly where to go when the sun's a shinin’ and our thirsts need a quenchin’...

Castle Rock Brewery Turns Forty

29 May 17

Nottingham's legendary Castle Rock Brewery (formerly Tynemill) celebrates its fortieth birthday this year. We chatted to Managing Director Colin Wilde, and Head of Marketing, Lewis Townsend, about the great local institution – including their pubs and all their beer-related antics – as well as what they’ve got planned in the way of bothday celebrations...

Totally Tapped Microbrewery

26 April 17

We went a'guzzlin' down Beeston...

Henry Normal Talks Nottingham Poetry Festival and His Castle Rock Brewery Beer

04 April 17

After the success of the first Nottingham Poetry Festival in Autumn 2015, there are over fifty events going on from Friday 21 - Sunday 30 April. We had a natter with curator and Baby Cow Productions funnyman Henry Normal to talk all things poetry, being a Nottingham lad and his new beer, obviously...

The Herbert Kilpin's Hop Pop Up: A Marriage of Food and Beer

10 March 17

It seems a few folks - including myself - misunderstood the game here… It’s not about matching the right beer to your food, it's having the beer added to your food while it's being prepared. Bloody genius.