Hawkshead Brewery is not in Hawkshead any longer, though it is still one of the best places to get our beer - in 3 of the 4 pubs in the village and in Near Sawrey at the other end of Esthwaite Water.

The brewery grew so fast that in 2006 we had to move across the lake (Windermere, that is) to Staveley, at the foot of the Kentmere Valley.

Hawkshead Brewery is now in Mill Yard, Staveley, beside the River Kent, where we installed a new brewery, tailor made by Moeschle (UK) Ltd.

The new brewery is three times the size of the old and gives us more precision and more control over the brewing process. The Staveley Brewery's "brew length," an indication of the size of the vessels, is 20 barrels, a brewer's barrel being 36 gallons. Five fermenters give us the capacity to produce 100 barrels of beer per week, compared to the 30 brls a week we were doing at Hawkshead.

We are now at full capacity and trying to find space to fit in new kit, so that we can brew more.

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