150 new jobs at ‘largest brewery in the capital’

CRAFT brewery Beavertown has opened ‘London’s largest brewery’ in an expansion which will create 150 more jobs.

The brewery, founded by Logan Plant, the son of Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, has been funded using a £40m minority investment in the business by Heineken in 2018.

He said the new site in Enfield, dubbed Beaverworld, will make 90 million pints every year as the fast-growing brewer increases its capacity by tenfold.

Builders started work on the site early last year and now the brewery is recruiting 150 more staff as it starts selling its first beers produced at the site.

Mr Plant said the expansion will help drive his aim of getting the beer ‘in the hands of people in every pub on every street corner’.

He said: ‘It’s been quite the journey to turn this from home brewing at the kitchen table to making beer in London’s biggest brewery.

‘It’s been three years in the planning, from when we needed to expand from the Tottenham Hale brewery.

‘This is even bigger than we first planned and really does show the leaps and bounds we’ve been able to make.’

He said the development of the site was delayed by around six weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, while sales have also been impacted in recent months.

The company rapidly grew its off-trade operations, which covers sales through supermarkets and retail stores, and its online directto-consumer business after pubs were forced to shut their doors in March.