The Shiny Brewery

After a gap of some 80 years brewing returned to Little Eaton in 2012 when Shiny Brewery set up business in the village. Pedro Menon owned the Furnace Inn in Derby, a pub which had a good reputation for cask beers. Looking for a new challenge Pedro decided to brew some of his own beers for the pub and installed a small brewing kit in the back garden of the pub. The first beers brewed were made purely for the pub under the Shiny brand, the first one appropriately being called Launchpad (a 3.9%ABV Pale Ale). After some initial success it was decided that a larger, stand alone kit was needed but this would need more space! Suitable premises were located on the Old Hall Mill Business Park at Little Eaton and slowly the new brewery took shape, brewing its first beers, cask beers, in 2012. Since then the business has prospered. As had always been the intention, a brewery bar (The Shiny Tap) was set up as a showcase for the brewery’s products. Why the name Shiny? Well Pedro thought of many options, but the name Shiny has, in Pedro’s words, “such positive vibes and fitted with the business that I wanted to create. It also gave me a reason to introduce "shiny metallic" pump clips to stand out from the crowd.”