This website is dedicated to the history, the people and the beers of P.Phipps and Co, Northampton Brewery Company and Phipps NBC, as well as the companies that merged with them over the years. It also features details of the revived range of ales that returned in 2008.

Brief History

1801, Pickering Phipps brews, Towcester

1817, Phipps brewery in Northampton

1864, Phillips open in Northampton

1873, Phillips Brothers become NBC

1899, Phipps buy Ratliffe and Jeffery

1901, Towcester brewery burns down 

1954, Phipps take over Campbell Praed

1957, P Phipps & NBC merge

1960, Watney Mann buy Phipps NBC

1968, Last Phipps NBC draught brewed

1972, Bottled  IPA and Stingo ends

1974, Phipps Bridge St. Brewery closed

1974, to 2004 trades as a pub chain only

2004, S&N dispose of surviving pubco

2004, to 2008 research into brewing

2008, Phipps NBC relaunched IPA

2009, Red Star & Ratliffe's Stout appear

2012,  Diamond Ale  revived

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Ordering Our beers

Contact Details

Tel : 07510 290983

email alaric@phipps-nbc.co.uk

“When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England"

About us

Today Phipps NBC ales and stout can once again be found in numerous pubs and clubs across our region, turning back the hands of time with every pint pulled.

Our beers are  brewed from the original recipes, under the supervision of original Phipps NBC Bridge St. men, by our partners at the Grainstore Brewery in Rutland.

In 2004  brothers Alaric and Quentin Neville started work on relaunching Phipps NBC beers to the East Midlands pub trade. After four years research and  the support of several key former employees of Phipps NBC the dream became a reality. 

We also would like to thank members of the Phipps  and Ratliffe families for their time, effort and encouragement.

Where to find our beers

From Leicester to Buckingham, from Warwick to Peterborough, Phipps NBC ales and stout appear in many of the region's best freehouses as guest ales. Some of the Pubs which have Phipps on tap on a permanent basis include :

• The Station Bar, Rushden
• The Bedford Arms, Souldrop
•  Sir Pickering Phipps, Northampton
• The Lamplighter, Northampton
• The Locomotive, Wellingborough
• The Walnut Tree, Blisworth
• The Rose & Crown, Yardley Hastings
• The Grainstore, Oakham
• The Railway Inn, Ketton
• The Royal Oak, Walgrave
• The Knightley Arms, Yelvertoft
• The Fox & Hounds, Exton
• The Courtyard, Stanwick
• The Bat and Wickets, Northampton
• The Waggon+Horses, Wellingbro'
• The Stags Head, Maidwell
• The Red Lion, Litchborough
• The Ship, Oundle
• The Wharf, Bugbrooke
  
• Yaxley Royal British Legion
• The Miller, Wellingborough
• Two Brewers, Thornborough
  

 See a full list in  the Contract and Stocklists section

Bottled Beers

Phipps IPA & Ratliffe's Celebrated Stout can now be purchased in 500ml bottles, see our online shop for details and more Phipps merchandise

Ratliffe's Celebrated Stout wins Gold medal as Champion Beer at CAMRA Derby Winter Beer festival 2013

 Phipps Diamond Ale

  The 4th revived brew from Phipps  returned in May 2012 as a summer special. Diamond Ale is a pale amber 3.7% and was the original Phipps Burton Union beer, first brewed in the early 1860s and last brewed in 1939.

  Find out more

News

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Watch a 1960's film on Phipps NBC Brewery on You Tube

Click links below:

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-aKJLIhu1M

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwC3g946BU

Events

See the latest Beer Festivals and past events featuring Phipps Beers