Gilroy’s Brewery
| Founded | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Founders | Stephen Gilroy |
| Headquarters |
Muldersdrift, Gauteng, (Brewery and restaurant), South Africa |
| Products | Beer, Restaurant, Beer garden |
| Website | www |
Gilroy’s Brewery is a microbrewery and restaurant in Muldersdrift, Gauteng, South Africa. The brewery was founded in 2000 by Stephen Gilroy at his pharmaceutical printing company in Roodepoort, Gauteng. Gilroy’s Brewery was one of the first microbreweries in South Africa, along with Mitchell's Brewery, Nottingham Road Brewery, and Drayman’s Brewery. In 2008 the operation was relocated to the current premises at Ngwenya Glass Village in Muldersdrift, where it expanded to include the restaurant, beer garden, and a gift shop. The brewery produces 5 styles of beer – a lager, pale ale, ruby ale, and a dark ale. The brewery has recently introduced a ginger beer.
Gilroy beer featured in the 2011 James Bond novel Carte Blanche, when the literary spy ordered a Gilroy Dark Ale whilst on assignment in Cape Town, South Africa. Speaking to the Krugersdorp News, the author, Jeffery Deaver, said, “A friend provided some “Serious” in Cape Town and I was hooked from the first sip! I included it in Carte Blanche because Bond insists on only the best!”
Gilroy’s Brewery was established in the year 2000 by Stephen Gilroy at his pharmaceutical printing company in Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa. The Irish-born, Liverpudlian Stephen Gilroy immigrated to South Africa in 1970 and began home brewing. Having grown up in the United Kingdom, he was accustomed to a wide variety of ales and lagers. He found, however, that most of the beer produced in South Africa at the time was mass-produced lager. Stephen Gilroy had this to say, “When I came to South Africa I couldn’t drink the beer. I was used to the bigger [bodied] beers and they simply didn’t have it; it was just a sea of generic lagers. So I started home brewing." Journalist and managing editor of eNCA, Seamus Reynolds, described Stephen Gilroy as "the mad godfather of South African brewing" and described his personality as "part Monty Python, part Shakespeare, part David Attenborough."
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