Speyside Brewery to recommence production from new site following investment

Speyside Brewery is recommencing production from a new site after being mothballed during the pandemic.

Its core beers – including Speyside Lager and Findhorn Killer IPA – will return to the production line with new additions developed “in direct response to the changing landscape of the drinks market”, as the Forres-based brewery relaunches from a larger premises.

The new site will open just “a few yards from” the original brewery, thanks to new funding secured from private investment company Urquhart Brothers.

The business is actively recruiting a head brewer, along with administration personnel, with more jobs to be created later this year and into early 2023.

Speyside Brewery founder Seb Jones – who in 2013 was named as a rising star in the food and drink industry in The Grocer’s Top New Talent awards – will continue as MD, leading the business’ development.

Along with happy customers, creating employment for the local economy was one of “the most satisfying elements of business”, said Jones.

Jones said he was “so pleased to be continuing this dream of mine”. To have investors that believed in it “just as strongly” was “fantastic”, he added.

“In larger premises with our equipment, recipes and passion, we will be targeting markets that I believe have always been underserved by beers from Speyside, and Scotland in general.”