bottle shop

Hello everyone and welcome back to our blog. We’d put it on hold for a little while – it was difficult to know what to say at first and then we became extremely busy with preparations to reopen the brewery.

While we felt we had to close the brewery temporarily at the start of the lockdown, we made sure to put the time to good use by applying for a premises licence so that we can open more often than once a month. This probably completely confused the local council – someone applying to be able to open more, just as all the pubs had shut – but they were extremely helpful and we got our licence through in late April.

Many of you will know that we’ve been opening for takeaways three days a week since early May. It was a slow start because we didn’t have much stock that was ready to go out, so we only had our larger bottles and gin available, but now that the brewery is properly up and running again, we’ve been able to package the beer that was in tank and, now those tanks are freed up, start brewing again. We consider ourselves extremely lucky that our focus on heritage beer styles means that beer sitting for a bit longer in the tank is actually a good thing, not a bad one, and we haven’t had to ditch any beer so far.

We’ve found this period really challenging, as have so many businesses during the lockdown, but we’re keen to make the most of the opportunities it presents too. We’d been planning to get a premises licence for ages, but this forced the issue and we’re thrilled that we can see our lovely customers more often, albeit in a socially distanced way. It’s also made us think about packaging in a new way, and moving into mini-kegs so that you can have a draught beer experience at home has been fantastic. Please let us know if there’s anything more you’d like us to do that we aren’t yet doing – we’re always open to new ideas!

Our taproom and bottle shop (at the brewery) is open for takeaways on Thursday, Friday and Saturday every week, from 12 noon to 5 p.m. We prefer cards, but will take cash. We publish our weekly menu midweek on social media, and usually have a range of 5 litre mini-kegs, 500ml and 750ml bottles and a cask or keg for bring your own growler/sealable bottle (or you can use one of our 2 pint cartons) – plus our award-winning Limited Edition Hopped Gin. Please observe social distancing measures when you visit – there’s a sign on the door showing the process for getting your beer and gin.

Finally, in a couple of weeks we’re planning to do a “your questions answered” blog post – so, if you have any burning questions you’d like to ask us about our products, our brand, the brewery, the awards we’ve won or beer and brewing in general, please contact us and we’ll include as many as we can!