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Rivington Brewing Co

United Kingdom · Regional · Known for a full range of styles
Known for a full range of styles

Rivington Brewing Co was founded in 2014 by Ben Stubbs and Mike Richardson, who started on a small kit at a dairy farm in Anderton. Today the brewery sits at Home Farm in Rivington, Lancashire, overlooking the reservoir, where its taproom opened in 2019. A 20-hectolitre brewhouse turns out around 2,500 hectolitres a year, about a fifth of it in cask. The focus is on hazy, hop-forward pale ales and IPAs led by the flagship Never Known Fog Like It, alongside lagers, stouts, fruited sours and barrel-aged ales; everything leaves the farm unfiltered, unfined and unpasteurised.

9Beers
2Styles
5.7%Avg ABV
2014Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
11%
catalogue avg 46%

Beers by Rivington Brewing Co

9 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Rivington Brewing Co brew across 2 style families.

Signature · 9 beers
IPA 5Pale Ale 4

Across these 9 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

citrusyevery beer
9 of 9 beers
hoppyevery beer
9 of 9 beers
tropical
7 of 9 beers
fruity
7 of 9 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one. 2 of them come through every single beer.

Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:

They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.

How we measure this

Two thresholds are at work here:

  • The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
  • The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.

A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 58%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
4 / 9
beers above the median
#2181
best ranked beer
Beach House Alcohol Free

Their beers place in the Top 58% of the catalogue on average, across 9 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Rivington Brewing Co

Rivington Brewing Co was founded in 2014 by Ben Stubbs and Mike Richardson, who started on a small kit at a dairy farm in Anderton. Today the brewery sits at Home Farm in Rivington, Lancashire, overlooking the reservoir, where its taproom opened in 2019. A 20-hectolitre brewhouse turns out around 2,500 hectolitres a year, about a fifth of it in cask. The focus is on hazy, hop-forward pale ales and IPAs led by the flagship Never Known Fog Like It, alongside lagers, stouts, fruited sours and barrel-aged ales; everything leaves the farm unfiltered, unfined and unpasteurised.

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