Specialist in malt toasts new £2m site in Alloa
Malting company Crisp Malt is opening a £2 million packaging line in Alloa that it says provides more access to Scottish barley grown, malted and packaged in Scotland, benefiting the environment, farmers and craft brewers.
The Norfolk-based firm said its Alloa maltings currently produces 28,000 tonnes of malt for brewers and distillers across Scotland, while the new packaging facility has four 60-tonne silos that can package up to 7,000 tonnes a year.
As well as supplying the Scottish brewing industry, the new facility will see Crisp expand its export activities to support the growing craft beer movement worldwide, with Scottish malt being distributed to markets such as the US, Japan and Scandinavia.
Colin Johnston, craft brewing and distilling sales manager at Crisp, praised the firm being able to support Scottish farmers “in this way by maintaining the provenance of their crop right through to a pint produced in a craft brewery in Scotland”.