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Last week saw the women who work at Bellfield, take over the brew house under the eagle eye of our R&D brewer, Sally MacGarry, to brew a special beer to mark International Womens Day on 8th March.  Keith – Bellfield’s production brewer – had a day in the office instead, catching up on paperwork, while we mashed, boiled, hopped and cleaned.  While craft brewing has a reputation for being the preserve of young men with beards, that’s now a bit of a cliche.  There are now dozens of award-winning female brewers like Do Bongers at Fierce, Sophie de Ronde at...

Coeliac Awareness Week runs from 13-20 May and as an exclusively gluten-free brewery, the Week always reminds us of why we set up Bellfield in the first place. It began as a conversation in an Edinburgh pub between two craft-beer loving friends who had both been diagnosed with coeliac disease and couldn’t find a gluten-free beer they liked. Grief stricken at the prospect of life-long abstention from pies, crisps, chips and especially beer, they got their thirsty heads together and came up with the solution – they would brew their own. Craft Beer For All became the mission and Born...