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 Work started on assembling the custom-designed 100 litre microbrewery at the end of 2009 and it was installed and commissioned in February of this year. So successful has the first ‘brew’ been that plans are already underway to increase capacity by a further 50%. Long established as a ‘real ale pub’, The Old Inn regularly stocks a range of Scottish and English ales. Far from displacing these, its own brews will broaden the offering even further. As owner Alastair Pearson says, “Brewing our own beers very much complements the way we approach the food side of our business: from filleting our own, freshly landed fish, to baking our own bread and even making our own burgers.”

Theming the proposed range on place names in and around the Gairloch area, the first beer to go into production is called The Erradale – a 4.2% abv IPA-style bitter.

Brewer Michael Longley, pictured right in the brewhouse, is already developing a lighter summer ale, which will be called The Flowerdale and plans to have a winter ‘warmer’ called The Slattadale. At The Old Inn, Gairloch, it’s not just good food that comes naturally but good beers too!

 

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