Brewery

Our plant is a 15BBL kit. It consists of second hand tanks customised to form our liquor tanks and copper (complete with vapour condenser to eliminate smells) and new open top fermenters and mash tun, which were custom built by a local dairy plant manufacturer.

Most of the brewery parts and accessories, such as the sparge-arm, condenser and double cask-washer, were designed and built by Iain (an engineer by trade).

All our beers are brewed by traditional hand crafted methods.

The grist is poured from a hopper, mixed with the liquor, and then stirred by hand (usually Shane and Innes’s job). This is left to stand - converting starch into fermentable sugars.     

The wort is then run off slowly into an underback and then transferred to the copper. When the required volume is reached the copper is brought to a rolling boil (copper-up!). Hops are added and a vigorous boil is maintained for 90 minutes.

After a settling out period, the wort is pumped via a heat exchanger to one of our open top fermenters.

Once fermentation is completed, the beer is conditioned in casks at cellar temperature before delivery.