Soon after acquisition, the brewing equipment was enlarged from within the cellar to adjoining buildings, which had been previously used as a malt store.

The 1960s saw the purchase of additional pubs around the Black Country, a practice that continued through the 1980s and to the present day.

[2][3] In 2012 work began on a major expansion of the brewery to increase production capacity,[4] with further plans to open up a visitor's centre in the near future.

[7] Holden's brewpub supplies cask ale to its twenty-two tied houses.

[8] In 2017, the brewery also launched a beer to celebrate the life of industrialist Abraham Darby.