Heaney Brewery

Heaney Brewery operates from The Wood, a farm on the edge of Bellaghy that has belonged to the Heaney family for generations. Suzanne McCay's father, Hugh Heaney, brother of the poet Seamus Heaney, farmed the land before Suzanne and her husband Mal McCay began brewing in 2014, initially at Boundary in Belfast while their own brewhouse was built. Production moved on-site in 2019, using the farm's own spring water and renewable power. The brewery makes a year-round range including an Irish stout, a New England IPA and an Irish white ale, alongside seasonal and limited-run batches. There is no public taproom, but the McCays run bookable farm and brewery tours that take in the fields, the water source and the tasting room, and their beer is sold online and stocked in bars including Belfast's Sunflower. The business remains entirely family-run.