Arran Brewery launches first lager
The Arran Brewery has launched its first ever lager after successfully test marketing a number of recipes.
The lager is to be called Insignia at 3.6 ABV. The lager will be made at Arran’s Loch Earn Brewery in St Fillans Perthshire and the brewery is currently taking installation orders from the trade. It will come in two versions one for Glasgow and one for Edinburgh.
The brewery expects to handle installations during the winter months and have the lager fully available throughout Scotland by April 2019.
As well as its new lager Arran Brewery is to launch its first sour beers from its Arran View Brewery in Dreghorn. Managing director Gerald Michaluk said: ‘We are just awaiting the transfer of a brewing licence for the equipment we are installing from our Devils Dyke operation.
‘These beers will be available for Christmas and are aimed at a specific segment of the craft market that Arran has been missing out on as with open fermenters on Arran we could not risk using these stains of yeast in case they infected our main beers, but at Dreghorn our small 2.5 brl plant will be able to meet the limited demand in Scotland that we feel will only grow,’ Mr Michaluk added.
The brewery has also relaunched its October (Hallowe’en beer) called Arran ID an Indian dark ale and this is available in cask and shortly in bottles.