One of London’s original craft beer names, By the Horns, has entered liquidation, with owners citing bad debtors, the economy and rent hikes as just some of the reasons.
The company, founded in 2011 by Alex Bull and Chris Mills, started with a five and a half barrel kit in Summerstown, before moving production out to a new site with the potential to produce 12,000hl, in Salfords, Surrey, in 2021 and was confident about its trading future. However, circumstances of the last year led to its demise, as Bull explained.
“During Covid we were okay, we did a lot of online business and when the leases were up at our old site, we saw the opportunity to build a production unit and it was all…
