2 WEEKS TO GO TILL OUR BEER FESTIVAL!

Have you got your ticket for our beer festival yet?! 🍺 Join us on the 29th of April from 12pm for a day of good beer, good music and good times! What’s included in your ticket price?

A free beer of your choice
Day of live music from, Paul Malcolm, Callum Smith, Alistair McDonald, Alan & Anne McSwan and The State Bar Blues Band.
12 different beers to try!
4 Guest breweries including, Simple Things Fermentations, Overtone Brewing, Shilling Brew Co, Outlandish Brew Co,
Food stalls
Purchase your ticket for only £20 here.

We can’t wait to see you.

How we bottle our beer!

Although we try and use local suppliers where we can, when we decided to go back to bottling our own beer we then had to find a way of doing it in our very small brewery.

That meant getting a piece of kit from New Zealand, and we were the first in the UK to get one.

It’s a small single bottle filler and takes beer from the keg and fills it under pressure using carbon dioxide, so no oxygen gets to the beer at all during the process and we end up with slight carbonation in the bottled beer.

Using this kit means we can turn a 30 litre keg into 60 500ml bottles in around 2 hours when we account for cleaning the machine before and after, as well as cleaning all the bottles and caps. The filled bottles are put into crates and washed down to get rid of any excess beer on the bottles and then labelled. It’s a labour intensive process but works for us as we don’t have a huge amount of storage space. 

Increasingly our customers are buying our bag in box beer. Again the mechanism prevents oxygen getting into the beer so it will keep for several weeks depending on how it’s stored - we recommend a cool place ideally 5 to10 degrees.

We now have a special printer to produce our own labels as required, again supporting our business sustainability drive.

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

This is essentially about reusing material that is often the waste from another process.

We won awards for our Hardtack beer when it first came out, using some of Auld’s the Bakers returned morning rolls to make a lovely low alcohol beer with 2% alcohol.

However, that was too much for the no alcohol brigade and not enough for the traditional beer drinkers! So we worked on Roller, again using morning rolls that would have just gone to landfill otherwise and again that proved a big hit when we had it available in our pub.

One of our main waste products is the spent grain from the brewing process, which we currently give to local farmers as animal feed as it retains a lot of protein. However we have successfully trialled making a grain bar using this and are hoping to bring that forward for sale in the pub this Spring.

We are also working on how to reuse the fruit needed to make our Bardowie Pink and Bardowie Zest gin. Bardowie Pink is made using raspberries which come out of the process white, and we use orange peel in the Bardowie Zest. This gin soaked treasure can be used in a variety of ways and we are currently experimenting with some of our home baking, as well as preserves and chutneys. We will let you know when these are available for sale.

HERE'S TO 2023

Is it passed the acceptable period of time to say happy new year? All the dust has settled from the madness of Christmas time and we have come to the quiet and quite often tough period of time in the pub trade that is January. 

 Many people start off their year with a health kick that includes dry January, good for body and mind, terrible for professional beer makers! Duelled with the rising cost in living this had led us to review our opening hours and like many other businesses in Milngavie we will closing our doors during the early days of the week and we have followed suit and are currently open from Wednesday 5pm - through to Sunday.  

  Not all is doom and gloom however, as we look back on the positive changes we have made in the pub over the past couple of months. With the advice of a local interior designer carol_yates we opted to give the place a nice lick of paint, brought in new furniture and even a scattering of fancy cushions. We enjoyed a busy festive period seeing lots of new faces in the pub as well as our wonderful regulars. We were overwhelmed with the number of people that chose to use our beer and gin as gifts for their loved ones and we cannot thank you enough. 

Looking forward to the year ahead, we are excited to have our circular economy beer ROLLER back on tap, while also adding a full time guest tap so that we can showcase some of the other talented independent breweries across Scotland. 

For the hardy bunch that are still ploughing ahead with their dry January journey we have a good selection of teas/coffees/ alcohol free beers and spirits so that you don’t have to miss out on all the exciting events we have in store this month. Our quiz night has been moved to a Thursday evening at 7.30 and continuing on from a successful run last year, the Ok Amigos will be playing the last Sunday of every month also at 7.30pm 

In the upcoming months we plan on running a more regular blog/newsletter to give you some inside information about brewing, events we have on and exciting things we have in the works. Hopefully we will see you soon in the pub for a pint (or an appropriate non alcoholic alternative) 

Jawbrew team