Beavertown Brewery is a British brewery based in Tottenham, London. It was acquired by Heineken in 2022.[1]
Beavertown was founded in 2011 by Logan Plant, the son of Robert Plant, singer with Led Zeppelin.[2] The brewery's name came from the nickname for de Beauvoir Town,[3] the area of London where its first beer was brewed,[4] Duke's Brew & Que on Downham Road, London N1, and which was unexpectedly closed in 2017.[5]
In June 2018, it was announced that Heineken would be buying a minority stake, so that Beavertown could spend £40 million on a new brewery and visitor site.[2] The new brewery was launched in 2020, with a capacity of 500,000 hectolitres, a ten-fold increase in their previous capacity.[6]
Beavertown currently produce mostly IPAs, with special seasonal beers on rotation.
, Heineken UK own 11,196 (49.5%) of the 'A' shares of TP & Munch Ltd,[7] which owns 100% of both Beavertown Brewery Ltd and the dormant Lost Star Ltd.[8] Logan Plant owns 5,833 'A' shares (25.8%) and his wife Bridget owns 5,605 'A' shares (24.8%). Creative Director Nick Dwyer has 105 'B' shares; operations director Nikola Marjanovic Heineken have also made a loan via TP & Munch that is secured on the brewery's assets and trademarks.
On 31 August 2022, Bridget and Logan Plant resigned their directorships of TP & Munch Ltd, leaving Heineken UK Limited with full control of the company.[9]