[1] In 2011, McMahon and Adamson began running a monthly meeting named Beer Club at the Roxbury Hotel in Glebe.

[8] In 2012, McMahon and Adamson attempted to open Young Henrys brewing Co in an empty warehouse on Devonshire Street in Surry Hills, Sydney.

[13][14] Young Henrys collaborated with the Pingala Co-operative to install a 33 kW solar panel array on the roof of the brewery in August 2016.

[16] Young Henrys opened a crowd funding program to finance the rest of the project, which attracted 300 applications.

[18] The project attracted political interest, with Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore attending the investor event.

Young Henrys partnered with UTS Biotech Hub and Climate Change Cluster in 2018 to install two 400-litre bioreactors into its Newtown brewery.

[22] The World Wide Fund for Nature subsidiary Earth Hour ran a campaign in 2015 called #savetheales, to raise awareness about the effects of global warming.

As a part of the campaign, The University of Queensland conducted research that revealed that Australian hops would decline in both quality and quantity.

The challenge utilised Young Henrys' flagship beers in a cooking competition, that was judged by celebrity chefs Pete Evans and Colin Fassnidge.

[27] The beer used ingredients from the band members home towns, including wheat from WA for Tim Rogers and Russell Hopkinson, malt from Victoria for David Lane, and New Zealand hops for Andy Kent.

[29] Queensland rock band DZ Deathrays, who also produced a beer with Young Henrys in 2016, joined Foo Fighters as the supporting act on the Concrete and Gold tour.

DZ Deathrays and Young Henrys produced a Czech pilsner named Pils N Thrills for Blurst Of Times Festival in Brisbane[30] Australian garage rock band Dune Rats released limited edition Dunies Lager in collaboration with Young Henrys, in celebration of their album The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit topping the ARIA Charts.