Author Archives: Brewing Services

There will always be a place for well brewed traditional beer styles 

Just to show the older recipes can still produce award winning beers now as they have for many years; following on from Acorn’s Barnsley Bitter winning Gold and becoming SIBA Champion beer of the North East, we now have Cairngorm Brewery’s Black Gold sweet stout becoming the overall Champion Beer of Scotland. More recently we […]

For Sale: 5BBL Brewery

For Sale A wooden clad 5 BBL (820L) brewery which includes the following vessels and further brewing equipment and sundries: 1 Copper with hop back, lid, Two heating elements 1 Mash Tun with lids and perforated floor 1 Underback 1 Cold Liquor Tank 1 Chiller Unit 1 Heat Exchanger 1 Cask Washer 1 Cask Rinser […]

Complete 6BBL Brewery for sale (with DPV’s)

Brew House – Manufactured 2013 by Magusa Spain   Website : http://www.magusa.es/index.php/equipamientos-para-cerveza 1 x HLT  1500 Lt’s – electric – Single Element Kettle 1200 Lt’s – Electric – Twin Element Mash Tun 800 Lt’s – inc 2 x Semi-circle mash plates Heat Exchanger 3 x CDX Pumps   Fermenters – Chinese made 2013 x 2 […]

Peaceful co-existence on the bar, a new age of choice for the drinker and a dose of commercial reality for brewers.

  For anyone reading the wider press and brewing periodicals of late it may not be immediately apparent that we have witnessed a complete sea change in respect to the selection of styles of beer available on the bar. Recent press articles might suggest cask is doomed whilst others seem to suggest a revival of […]

A grand day out at the SIBA Indie Beer competition in Edinburgh 2022

We’ve always enjoyed going to the SIBA Regional Beer competitions as it’s a great way of meeting brewers, other suppliers and having a bit of fun, and the SIBA Indie Beer Competition was no exception. We don’t often get involved with judging at beer competitions, preferring to stay in the background, helping out and chatting […]

Congratulations to Coniston Brewery!

  Coniston No.9:  the World’s best barleywine. It’s always good when we see one of our breweries do well in a competition, and even better when we’ve had a hand in creating the recipe. So to have one of our beers crowned best in the world in its category is a definite feather in the […]

Complete 10 Brl (17 hl) Brewery for sale – SB01

Price: £65,000 + VAT This brewery has recently closed and is available to purchase with immediate effect. The brewery comprises~: Grain Handling Grist Case. 350 kg capacity with 8m x 4” auger tube ( 2 tonne per hour) feeding to grist hydrator. Typical mashing in time 12 min to 14n Brew House A three vessel […]

Congratulations to Old Farmhouse Brewery

Brewing Services congratulates client Old Farmhouse Brewery. See the details here: Old Farmhouse Brewery (@StDavidsBrewery) tweeted at 9:09 am on Sat, May 14, 2022: Oh wow!! Thank you @Food_DrinkWales for our highly commended award, for best start-up business. Out of over 250 business nominations in 13 categories, we are super proud to have been shortlisted […]

It’s Good to be back!

                  November 2021 Now re-named ‘Brewing – The Fundamentals’ we ran the first of our new, updated, brewing course face to face for the first time in two years. Although we have been restricted to Zoom only teaching for the last two years, it has allowed us […]

Drop Bear Beer Wins the European Beer Challenge 2021!

Brewing Services Ltd having working with Drop Bear for the last twelve months, developing the double gold award-winning New World Lager recipe, as well as reformulating their Yuzu, Tropical and Bonfire Stout recipes. So fingers crossed that they are are all double gold winners, or perhaps even platinum, in next year’s awards. More here: http://https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-mcnena-aa2ab0166_bringing-the-awards-home-european-beer-challenge-activity-6816681121607122944-zHz6 […]

Bier Edinburgh Brewery at the Keller Bar

  Our latest start-up project is Bier Edinburgh, which is now finally underway, after a bit of a delay, thanks to covid.  The Keller forms part of a complex of buildings just off Picardy Place in Edinburgh, with the Bier Edinburgh Brewery situated in a specially designed brewing area just off the main bar and […]

Drop Bear Beer secures £1.8million of investment to build its new dedicated alcohol-free brewery

Drop Bear Beer Co has succeeded in securing a £1.8million equity investment to build a dedicated alcohol-free brewery. The development of its brewery will allow Drop Bear to increase production and market share and fuel the company’s drive to establish Drop Bear as a key national and international player in the burgeoning alcohol-free market. Founded […]

Congratulations to Ayr Brewery!

It’s no surprise to us that our longtime client, Ayr Brewery has been chosen to supply beer for the Six Nations Championships Virtual Rugby events. We’ve been involved in the recipes for many of their Champion Beers of Scotland and this latest accolade is well deserved. Further details courtesy of the Ayr Advertiser: A local […]

Looking to 2021 and Beyond

2020 has proved to be an eventful and difficult year to say the least (carefully avoiding the much overused ‘U’ word). I’d like to say 2021 will be better, but probably not for six months at least as we continue to grapple with the effects of Covid lockdowns, plus the effects of Brexit on beer […]

The Digital Beer Awards 2020

The first ever ‘digital’ Beer awards There may be no beer festivals to attend but brewers have still found a way to get their beers judged. Organised by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) and open to all independent breweries in the UK, the Digital Beer Awards 2020 were a landmark competition, entered by over […]

Brewers: It’s your name on the package

  Over the past four months we’ve seen a quadrupling of the sales of small pack beer. More brewers than ever before have rushed to offer beer in both bottle and can, to be consumed at home. Packaging slots became like gold dust, and anyone with a means of filling bottles or cans were approached […]

Things are going to have to change

  Brewers are starting to adjust to this new sales situation, if they haven’t already and they need to adjust quickly if they don’t want to be left behind. It won’t be easy for at least the next twelve months (with or without a second wave and an even more draconian lockdown) so hard decisions […]