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Meet the Brewer: Stuart Taylor (Kirkby Lonsdale Brewery)

Posted on November 19, 2013 by andyMogg in Meet The Brewer No Comments
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from?
Kirkby Lonsdale Brewery, It is the town in which we are based. It translates as church on a hill by the lune.

What is your brewery capacity?
30 bbrl per week

What is different about your brewery?
We are a small family run brewery producing a range of beers that are linked to the town in some way to put us both on the map.

How long have you been brewing for?
4 years started in Feb 2009 no prior experience

How did you get into brewing?
I have been in the pub trade for 20 years, after keeping and serving beers for so long it was time to try to produce our own.

What beers do you brew regularly?
Ruskins Bitter 3.9, Monumental 4.5, Radical 4.2, Stanleys Pale 3.8, Tiffin Gold 3.6, Jubilee Stout 5.5, Singletrack 4,

HRH Prince Charles

HRH Prince Charles

What special/seasonal beers do you brew?
Festive Jingling Lane 3.7, rugby season Loosehead 3.8, Sept Green Dragon 3.6, Specials Imperial Dragon 8.2, Cherkeby wheat beer 5, WPA 6.2, Dark Envy cask lager 4.4

Where do you think the future of brewing lies?
For me it is all about the brewers out there continuing to produce quality beers so the public have the confidence to try other beers, whether that be in cask keg bottle.

Do you bottle/keg/cask your beer?
Cask and 4 bottled beers

What is you proudest moment in brewing?
Not one particular moment but seeing people drinking and enjoying our beers on a regular basis is really cool.

Do you have any brewing regrets?
Not starting sooner

What is your brewing ambition?
With the help of new brewing equipment I would like to be able to produce a wider range of beer flavours and styles.

What was last beer you drank?
Imperial Dragon

What is your favourite hop and why?
I love brewing with the new world hops Citra, Amarillo, Mosaic the super aromas you get from them bounce off the brewery walls! Also the impact they have on the beers characterisitcs is fantastic.

What is your favourite beer/food combo?
Strong stout and dark chocolate

Do you have a Brewing hero/inspiration?
Don’t know the brewers so I wil go with the brewery. Goose Island they got me into drinking beer.

If you could brew one collaboration beer with someone who would it be with and what would it be?
Goose Island big hopped export stout

If you could share a pint with someone dead or alive who would it be, what would be the beer and where would you have it?
Darren Berrecloth, GLC bar Whistler Canada, one of my own beers Singletrack

Which beer do you wish you had brewed?
Goose Island IPA

How do you spend your time when you aren’t brewing?

Hops - Staring young

Hops- Staring young


With the family and Mountain biking as much as I can!

If you could have one superhero superpower what would it be?
To fly

Do you have a website/twitter/blog?

Website is www.Kirkbylonsdalebrewery.com and twitter is @KLBrewery

 

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