The Torrside team is a very democratic set-up between 3 long-practicing homebrewers, with a lot of support from long-suffering partners. We’d each been brewing for several years, and it was time to do something with all that obsession. Beer is an amazingly varied drink, with flavours that are created by a huge number of factors – from the mix of malts and hops, and which yeasts we use for fermentation, to finer details of the brewing process such as timings, temperatures, and maturation. So we’re brewing across that wide range – from real ales and world beer styles, to historical recipes and a few more unconventional beers. We don’t have…

Boom!   Came the sound of the thunder, and as the rain came down like beads bouncing from the mash tun, Wild Weather Ales was born! Brewed in Silchester (just outside of Reading for the geographically challenged) and drawing inspiration from new world hops, Germany’s malts and beer styles from across the globe, we vow to make your drinking experience as enjoyable as our brewing. Now with our own on site canning line, collaborations with who we feel are some of the UK’s most inspirational brewers, and being more and more readily available nation-wide (Not to mention export plans) Wild Weather is experiencing Wild Growth. Striking branding” we hear you say.…

Silks Brewery is a five barrel micro brewery producing a fine range of hand crafted real ales in small batches. The brewery is a traditional Real Ale brewery with wooden clad stainless steel vessels. The brewery is based on a North Essex Farm in a converted old grain store. Brewing began in late 2015 using the finest English malts and with the best character hops to produce beers of lasting impression.

Like many other micro breweries, we started out as home brewers. We have many years of home brewing experience, with many successful brews and some failures. For many years we have thought about starting a brewery, then in early 2018 we discovered the brewery and bar available to rent. It was a no brainer, a brewery already set up and ready to go with little work required to start brewing. So here we are, almost there with just a few legalities and work on the brewhouse holding us up, but we hope to be brewing by mid summer 2018 with our brewery tap opening sooner.