ARS visit to Wincle Brewery

Yesterday, we featured this coming Saturday's ARS walk from Danebridge including a visit to the Wincle Brewery, owned by Giles Meadows, who was brought up in Audlem.

A little more on the brewery might be of interest to many.

Wincle Beer Co. was set up in 2008 from a redundant milking parlour, on a working farm set within the Peak District National Park.

Giles Meadows says: "Our whole ethos has always been about brewing the kind of beer that we love to drink ourselves.

"Following an extensive 4 month course at Brewlab at the University of Sunderland, our first beer rolled off the production line in August 2008 after first being relentlessly critiqued by our ever-growing testing panel.

"We enjoyed immediate success and encouragement at Tamworth beer festival where we won a silver medal.

"Our original plan was to take life easy, do the odd brew and spend the rest of the time whittling. However, people loved our beer and we couldn't brew it fast enough.

"We are now brewing flat out, 5 days a week and have now moved to a beautiful stone barn with a new state of the art 15 barrel plant, right in the heart of Wincle."

The core range of draught beers include:

• Wincle Waller, ABV 3.8%
• Sir Philip, ABV 4.2%
• Wibbly Wallaby ABV 4.4%
• Under Taker ABV 4.5%

All are available in bottles plus:

• Rambler, which might prove popular with the ARS group
• Old Hag, better drunk in private as it might not make an ideal present to take home!
• Mister Mullins

The seven bottled beers are 500ml and are available in 3 or 6 pack presentation cases. 12 bottle same type and 12 bootle mixed cases are available and you can order customised labels.

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