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A small history……
Well it all started when I cobbled together a collection of vessels together in my back garden, to be fair it was a purpose built 5 barrel plant squeezed into a Grim stone garage, it was essential to build a full sized brewery as a laboratory to see if I could make beers of merit, The first brew I make was Cock o’ the North, it remains unchanged and it is as good today. My neighbours were unsympathetic and did not appreciate the pub sign, ‘the Friendly Neighbour’

Moving on………..
to a small red Portakabin in Hipperholme, the former changing rooms for the channel tunnel proved an unlikely home for a brewery. I somehow placed the successful bid for the brewery at the Fox and Firkin, having won the bid I had to remove it and bring it ‘up North’ and the only storage space was its current location, now to be fair it was a rundown trim shop and I had no intention of putting a heavy weight brewery on a ply wood floor, but, necessity being the mother of invention, we pit propped the floor all over and it’s holding up pretty well.

Making beer………..
boy did we make beer, lots and lots of the lovely stuff and did we ever trade beer. We travelled everywhere buying, selling, trading, reciprocal trading agreements with breweries in the Lakes and Midlands meant we could and would supply beers for festivals, We worked and worked to set up beer festivals for anyone and everyone,  in the meantime………

We had been trying to get planning permission to open a bar, despite being recommended for approval, every possible avenue was being closed to us, mainly by foul means, but with the big guns of the fantastic Marilyn Britchard and us being on the side of God, history was change when we opened the doors of – Cock o’ the North

Come inside and take a look………….

The Interior was hand built by David Earnshaw & Steven ‘Bob’ Oxley.

The building is after all a Portakabin and as such lends itself to limited design possibilities, so we extracted every square inch of possibility and moulded it into the amazingly unique Bar that it is today.

Spotlessly clean and thoughtfully run, Cock o’ the North provides an ambience second to none, the subdued lighting and measured sound system  reflects perfectly the well appointed beer.

Some 180 different beers rotate along 10 hand pumps on the polished granite bar, attention to detail belies the ordinary exterior, if you are expecting spittle and sawdust, you won’t find in this secret location or any National treasure!