#209 | Full Circle Brew Co

Fresh from celebrating the brewery’s latest birthday at the end of 2025, the team at Full Circle are gearing up for another year of growth and evolution.

One of the UK’s most revered and regarded modern breweries, Full Circle’s 2025 was characterised by new releases and collaborations to events, community gatherings, and behind-the-scenes milestones.

And later this month, we are thrilled to be heading to their excellent Newcastle taproom for our first Brewers Lectures of 2026.

The Brewers Lectures will take place on the 25th February from 12:00-17:00 at the brewery’s taproom, which can be found at Hoults Yard, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 2HL. You can get your tickets right here.

Supported by Certuss Steam Generators, the event will feature a raft of brilliant figures from across the world of beer and brewing.

We’ll have talks from Tom Bott, the co-founder of London’s Signature Brew, Tim Bloomer, the co-founder and sustainability director at Fell Brewery and Daisy Turnell, a marketing professional with 24 years of experience in the craft beer and hospitality industries.

We’ll also be joined by Jack Walker, the head brewer at Liverpool-based Azvex, Ben Murphy, the head distiller at Ad Gefrin and Andrew Barnett, the founder of Barney’s Beer in Edinburgh. 

There will also be talks from Dan Hocking, the head brewer at Bundobust in Manchester and Red Kellie, joint owner and head brewer of the First & Last Brewery, a family-run brewery, taproom and event space situated in rural Northumberland.

For more information and to get your tickets, please visit www.brewersjournal.info

So on that note, what better opportunity to revisit our chat with Full Circle Brew Co founder Ben Cleary from 2023. And while his values and ethos remain the same, Full Circle Brew Co has come on leaps and bounds since then…