What started as a potential copyright dispute over the use of the ‘Scafell’ name has turned into a much more positive story as award-winning Leeds brewers Northern Monk and Cumbrian co-op Hesket Newmarket Brewery have chosen collaboration over conflict. 

Hesket Newmarket Brewery, one of the very first microbreweries in Cumbria, flagged the use of ‘Scafell’ in the name of a recently launched Northern Monk beer, having already trademarked the iconic Northern landmark for their Scafell Blonde Ale. READ MORE