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Magic Rock Brewing is an English

brewery A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of be ...

established in

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...

in 2011 by Richard Burhouse, aided by head brewer Stuart Ross. The company states that it is inspired by both local brewing traditions and the US craft beer scene.Magicrockbrewing.com (official site)
Retrieved 28 February 2020.

History

Magic Rock has been listed on Ratebeer's "top 100" list of world breweries on five occasions. It was also voted the second best new brewery in the world at the website's "Top New Breweries" awards in its first year of operation. The company's brewery, which opened in 2015, produces 15,500 hectolitres of beer per annum, and its products are exported to over 25 countries. As of 2019, the brewery employed 45 staff. Its core range of beers includes Dancing Bier (German lager), Hat-Trick (blonde bitter) and Common Grounds (coffee porter). The company's first taproom opened in 2015 at their Willow Lane brewery in Huddersfield. A second Magic Rock Tap opened in the West Yorkshire town of Holmfirth in December 2019.

Ownership

In 2019, Australian beer and beverage company

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acquired 100 per cent of Magic Rock. Lion, which owns the

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and

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brands, also bought the London craft brewer Fourpure Brewing in 2018. Lion's global craft beer subsidiary is named

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, and also includes

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in Australia, Panhead in New Zealand and New Belgium Brewing in the United States. In September 2020, Magic Rock distanced itself from an

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investigation that revealed Lion's parent company Kirin had "funded atricities" committed by

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's military. In a statement, Magic Rock said that Lion Little World Beverages, "does not have any stake in or control over Kirin’s operations in Myanmar". In August 2022, Lion announced the sale of its UK operations, which include Magic Rock, to UK-based Odyssey Inns.

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{{reflist Breweries in Yorkshire

History

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