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The health and safety of our customers and staff is really important to us. Following recent announcements from the Scottish & UK Governments and the World Health Organisation (WHO), we have reviewed the processes and facilities at our brew house and taproom. As a manufacturer of award-winning beers, we already adopt the highest standards of health and hygiene, to meet local authority and national guidelines and standards. While all staff in the brewery and the taproom wash their hands regularly, we are further reminding them – and our visitors – of the necessity of even more rigorous hygiene. As such,...

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...