Shiny Brewery Alcohol-Free Beers

Shiny is an independent brewery at Little Eaton, near Derby, which began in 2012 on a six-barrel kit in a Derby pub’s beer garden. Its alcohol-free beer is Chill, a 0.3% hazy pale with Citra and Sabro hops, made with a yeast that naturally produces very little alcohol, Shiny says.

Who are Shiny?

“Brewing commenced in 2012 using a six-barrel plant sited in the beer garden of the Furnace Inn, Derby,” CAMRA says. In a Q&A on Shiny’s website, “our director, Pedro” says: “The aim in 2012 was to create a brewery that would predominantly supply its own pub and provide myself with an income.” Its first beer was Launchpad, a 3.9% pale, and he chose the name because “Shiny has such positive vibes and fitted with the business that I wanted to create.” The Little Eaton Local History Society names him as Pedro Menon, former owner of the Furnace Inn.

After brewing only for the pub at first, Shiny grew in 2014, with beers sent “across most of the country”, and a second, 12-barrel plant with a visitor centre, taproom and shop followed in 2015, CAMRA says. Shiny also dates its move to a 5,000 sq ft site in Little Eaton to 2015 (Brewery History gives 2016). It was the first brewing in Little Eaton for some 80 years, the local history society says, and Beer Metropolis, a wholesaler and online shop, began as part of Shiny before it was split off.

Companies House lists Darren Menon as a director since 2012 and as the one person with significant control, holding 75% or more of the shares, so we list it as independent. The sources we found don’t say whether Pedro and Darren Menon are the same person. “At our independent craft brewery, we’re making Happy People,” Shiny says.

What Shiny brews

“Shiny are famed for their experimental beers packed with flavour,” Visit Derby says. Its shop runs from DDH pales such as Autoplay and Dolphin Milk to a chocolate and orange stout, Flat Moon Society, and a cinnamon roll porter, Cinny Bon. Untappd’s top beers for Shiny include Wipeout, a session IPA, Disco Balls, Affinity and Rocky; Pedro calls Wipeout “the best session IPA I’ve ever tasted”. It has a gluten-free range of full-strength beers, including Wipeout at 4.2%, Shiny Lager at 4.5% and Crush at 5.4%, and says all its beers are vegan-friendly. Shiny mentions “winning awards and recognition for our beers” but names none, and we found none on SIBA’s 2025 or 2026 results.

“The brewery runs on 100% renewable electricity, lit entirely by long-lasting LEDs,” Shiny says. It also says its spent grain goes to a nearby farmer, “Our house yeast has survived hundreds of brews”, and it uses 3.77 pints of water per pint of beer.

Shiny’s pubs

The Shiny Tap, at the brewery on Old Hall Mill Business Park, has 10 keg lines and four cask lines on handpull, plus more than 150 bottles and cans, CAMRA says. Shiny took over the Pattenmakers Arms, an Edwardian pub on Crown Street in Duffield, in September 2025, and relaunched it as a gastro-pub that still serves real ale, CAMRA reports. The Furnace Inn in Derby, where it started, is also on its list of venues.

Shiny’s alcohol-free beer

Chill is the only Shiny alcohol-free beer we found: a 0.3% hazy pale in 440ml cans, “Crafted with Citra and Sabro hops for a laid-back vibe”, unfined and vegan-friendly, Shiny says. It was added to Untappd in February 2025; we found nothing from Shiny on when or why it launched it. The Alcohol Free Co’s product header gives about 0.5%, but its own description, and Shiny, say 0.3%.

Shiny explains the method in a blog post by Jack Quinn, “The State of Lo-No in 2026 (Part 2)”: “We use a specialist yeast strain that naturally produces very low alcohol,” and “this allows us to deliver big, juicy tropical fruit notes from Citra and Sabro hops while keeping the ABV naturally capped.” Its alcohol-free beers use “the exact same core ingredients as our regular range”, “water, malted barley, wheat, hops, and yeast”, and “the same several-week brewing process”; “What changes is the fermentation stage.” “Because we aren’t stripping alcohol out at the end, every single step in the mash tuner and fermentation vessel matters,” it says, with hop additions balanced “so the beer doesn’t taste overly sweet or thin.” Large brewers, it says, “use vacuum distillation or filtration to remove alcohol after brewing”.

Shiny doesn’t publish an ingredient list, allergens or calories for Chill itself, and it isn’t in Shiny’s gluten-free range. We found no awards for it.

How Chill compares

Alcohol-free hazy pales from UK breweries in our directory. Calories per 100ml, as on each beer’s page (some are our sums from a per-can figure); checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

The Shiny beer in our directory

Checked 31 October 2026. Shiny doesn’t publish calories for Chill. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Chill

On 29 October 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had six for £34.26 and Dry Drinker six for £34.94; those are affiliate links. Shiny’s own shop listed single cans at £4.35 (its page showed sold out; its product data listed singles as available). For more, see our guide to the best alcohol-free pale ales.

Facts checked against Shiny’s own website and blog, Companies House, CAMRA, Brewery History, the Little Eaton Local History Society, Visit Derby, Untappd, SIBA, The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker, 31 October 2026.