Vocation Brewery was founded in 2015 by John Hickling, who had previously set up and sold another brewery in the Midlands. He started alone in a converted chicken shed at Cragg Vale, around 1,000 feet up on the moors above Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, where the independent company still operates. Known for bold, hop-forward beers led by the flagship IPA Life & Death, it now brews more than ten million pints a year, sells to some 40 countries and runs its own Vocation & Co. bars in Hebden Bridge, Halifax, Sheffield and Manchester.
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Vocation Brewery brew a broad range across 5 style families.
Across these 25 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
Two thresholds are at work here:
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Their beers place in the Top 59% of the catalogue on average, across 25 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
Based on style overlap and flavor profile
Vocation Brewery was founded in 2015 by John Hickling, who had previously set up and sold another brewery in the Midlands. He started alone in a converted chicken shed at Cragg Vale, around 1,000 feet up on the moors above Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, where the independent company still operates. Known for bold, hop-forward beers led by the flagship IPA Life & Death, it now brews more than ten million pints a year, sells to some 40 countries and runs its own Vocation & Co. bars in Hebden Bridge, Halifax, Sheffield and Manchester.
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