Hogs Inn Group — Eat, Drink, Stay
Mist rolling across the hills of the Welsh Marches at sunrise

Est. 1892 · The Welsh Marches

Good beer, fine spirits, proper pubs

Hogs Inn Group is a family-run drinks and hospitality company on the Shropshire border. We brew at Monty's, distil at Henstone and keep the fires lit across our four pubs.

Our drinksFind our pubs

From field to fireside

One group, three trades

What began as a single coaching inn in Welshpool has grown into a small group that does three things properly: brewing, distilling and hospitality. We malt-mash and mill, run the still by hand, and pour the results across our own bar. Everything we make ends up somewhere we're proud to stand.

Our storyTrade with us
Fermentation vessels and sacks of malt inside Monty's Brewery

Monty's Brewery

Beer with a Marches accent

Monty's has been brewing small-batch cask and keg beer since 1997 — golden ales, dark milds and modern pales made with Maris Otter malt and water drawn from the hills. Every brew is fermented slowly and racked into cask by hand.

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Copper pot still gleaming in the Henstone Distillery still room

Henstone Distillery

Copper, botanicals, patience

At Henstone we run a copper pot still in a converted dairy building, making a juniper-led London Dry gin alongside seasonal releases and a slowly maturing single malt. Small batches, signed by the distiller, bottled on site.

Inside the distillery
Log fire and beamed bar at Hogs Inn The Pinewood

Our Pubs

Four pubs, one welcome

From the beams and hearth of Hogs Inn The Pinewood to the snug booths of The Victoria Vaults — via The Tankard and The Breiddan — every pub in the group pours our own beer and gin, cooks from scratch and keeps a dog-friendly welcome seven days a week.

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The Hogs Inn range

A pint and a measure, both ours

From the amber malt of Old Hogg Best Bitter to the rosemary lift of Henstone Marches Dry Gin, our range is deliberately small. We'd rather make eight things well than thirty things adequately.

  • Old Hogg Best Bitter4.1% · cask ale
  • Pinewood Pale4.4% · session pale ale
  • Marches Dry Gin42% · London Dry
  • Hedgerow Sloe Gin26% · autumn release
Explore the range
A pint of cask ale beside a gin and tonic on a dark bar top

Latest from the group

News & happenings

Brewery · August 2026

Harvest ale returns to cask

Our green-hopped harvest ale is back, brewed within hours of the hops leaving the bine.

Distillery · July 2026

Still room tours now weekly

Henstone's guided tour and tasting now runs every Saturday, finishing with a G&T in the shop.

Pubs · June 2026

New garden terrace at Pinewood

Twelve extra covers, a wood-fired oven and a view straight down the valley.