15 - Northern Monk | Faith Hazy Pale Ale

In this week’s episode, we discuss how Northern Monk is reinventing how breweries are seen both as makers of beer and as employers, in The Pursuit of Hoppiness. In the Hop Topic, we apply to become Michelob Ultra’s new Brand Ambassadors and Rich dashes Simmo’s dreams!

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👊 Website: https://northernmonk.com/

📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/northernmonk/

🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/NMBCo

💪 Untappd: https://untappd.com/b/northern-monk-faith/970642

Location: Leeds, UK

Products:

5.4% A Modern Hazy Pale Ale packed with soft fruit flavours. Smooth, tropical and juicy. You’ve got to have Faith. - pineapple

History:

Humble beginnings of a £5,000 gift from a grandparent

2015 started, Old Flax Store and their LDS tap room.

Beer brewed across two sites, second much larger brewery on Sydenham Road in 2017.

Sustainability / Responsibility:

Created a Zero Waste beer in 2016 - The junk food project - make meals out of food that would have been thrown out - reclaimed or recycled pears, croissants and brioche. Hops and malt used in production is donated to a local farm for feed and fertiliser. Bottle made out of 100% recyclable glass.

Community:

Pride - social mission - committing to working with their communities for positive change - Every 12 pack of their “Keep the Faith” beer sold, donate £3 to LGBTQ+ community programs

Points of interest: Language - monk logo - refectories (what they call their venues / bars) - a room used for communal meals in a religious institution - calling their people “brethrin”

Angel of the north