GUIDE | MICRO-BREWERIES
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................................................................................................ The mysterious Preseli mountains are home to the Bluestone Brewing Company who are doing great things at their brewery near Newport. Bluestone brews include Bedrock Blonde, Moonstone and Crystal Ruby – something for everyone. www.bluestonebrewing.co.uk Also nestled in the Preselis, Seren Brewing Company offers good beer made “on a small scale with no fancy bells and whistles, just pure ingredients, hard work and distinctive flavours.” Their beers – from seasonal beers such as Winter’s intriguing Crafty Smoke, to the brewery’s recreations of beers – are ‘unfined’ and unfiltered making them suitable for vegetarians and vegans. www.serenbrewing.co.uk The Caffle Brewery grew from a crazy idea in a pub one rainy holiday to a brewery outside Narberth where Caffle’s Ales – Skaddly Pluck, anyone? Are brewed. Offering seasonally produced ales as well as the regulars, give them a try. www.cafflebrewery.co.uk Fishguard is home to the Gwaun Valley Brewery
which not only produces a range of delicious ales, but offers you the chance to stay on site at their campsite or in Brewery Cottage. Founded in 2009, and grown from a passion for home brewing, the brewery is now open to the public. www.gwaunvalleybrewery.co.uk Down in Tenby, the Tenby Brewing Company is on a mission to brew interesting and full flavour beers using the best quality ingredients leaving as little impact on the environment as possible. You can find out how they’re getting on by quaffing their ales – from Barefoot Blonde to Idleweiss – available from local stockists, or hire them to provide a bar at your event! www.tenbybrewingco.com Last but by no means least, based in south Pembrokeshire, the Pembrokeshire Brewing Company occupies what used to be a school in Saundersfoot. With 25 years of combined brewing experience behind them, the range of ales offered by this microbrewery reflect the landscape and heritage around them. www.pembrokeshirebrewingco.co.uk
..................................................................................... Nestled in the Cothi Valley is the Jacobi Brewery of Caio – the result of owners David & Justin’s disenchantment with uninteresting and flavourless ales on the market. To try Buzz Light Beer, Red Squirrel or Dr Harries Dark Magic. www.jacobibrewery.co.uk In Llandeilo, Evans Evans is rather larger than a ‘microbrewery’ – with 4 pubs across Wales – but still worth a mention here for the range of ales they produce. www.evanevansbrewery.com
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Perched above New Quay, the Penlon Brewery produces 10 ales. Visit their Tasting Room or buy online – or visit one of their local stockists. www.penlonbrewery.co.uk In an unassuming unit on an industrial estate in Cardigan, the Mantle Brewery are producing some really delicious ales using traditional techniques and natural ingredients. Beer which tastes like beer should, Mantle’s range is worth sampling (responsibly, of course). Visit their premises on the Pentood Industrial Estate or for those further afield, shop online. www.mantlebrewery.com
CARMARTHENSHIRE
CEREDIGION
There’s nothing like sampling local produce to get a sense of the place you’re in – whether living or visiting. Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire are home to a number of micro-breweries. Infused with the fresh air and sea breezes, look out for your local ales, and enjoy an unmistakeable flavour of West Wales.
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