Brewery
4 Avenue Mews (taproom at 14) N10 3NP (Haringey)
muswellhillbillybrewers.co.uk
First sold beer: April 2016
Nodding in their name to local heroes the Kinks, the Hillbillies are also a quartet, though currently still holding their day jobs and working on the brewery part-time. Homebrewers Martin Hodgson and Pete Syratt began the project by experimenting at UBREW but by late 2016 were registered commercially, working on a small scale at Pete’s home and selling very locally, including at the Alexandra Palace Farmers’ Market.
They moved up a notch in February 2017, taking an upstairs space at 24 Avenue Mews, a small street just behind the main Muswell Hill junction that’s also home to several other craft businesses. Here they worked on a big homebrew-style setup making 130 l batches. A taproom opened a few doors down in April 2018.
In October 2019, the brewery upgraded to a more professional capacity with the former Hale 5 hl kit (previously used by Affinity and Anspach & Hobday) on the ground floor of another unit in the mews.
In November 2023, it became the home of sour beer cuckoo brewer Tart.
In July 2024, it began operating a second, bar, the community-owned Hillbilly Social in Bounds Green.
Beers are mainly keg and bottle-conditioned, with some cask, and often use local ingredients: some of the hops is grown by the Hillbillies and their friends in gardens and allotments.
Updated 21 October 2024.
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