About Black Iris

There’s a vibrancy about Black Iris, which originally started life in 2011 in Derby at the Flowerpot and moved to Nottingham in 2014, where beer is made in the shadow of Shipstone’s tower brewery, whose closure in 1991 brought to an end 150 years of brewing.

It could be their stark, monochrome branding that helps the beers stand out on the shelves or at the bar-top, or it might be beer names such as Gimme Fruit, Gimme Fire, Give Me That Which I Papaya or Drink Beer Hail Satan. None of this on its own would be enough though unless the beers showed a corresponding quality and excitement and they certainly do. ‘We brew beers with passion, quality ingredients and a punk rock aesthetic courtesy of our excellent designer Kev Grey,’ says co-owner Alex Wilson.