Everything is better, when we work together!

Managing Director: Gerald Michaluk presenting Distillery Manager: Stewart Bowman with a bottle of each Special Reserve, a few samples may have been had beforehand…..

Arran Brewery and Arran Distillers celebrate continued Island friendship

For years now The Isle of Arran Brewery and Lochranza Distillery have enjoyed a close friendship. With distilling and brewing being very similar processes it’s always been very easy for our brewers and distillers to get along!

Both island businesses have been producing award winning products for decades on the Isle of Arran and over the years a tradition has developed between the two to celebrate this fact and their continued friendship.

Every year Lochranza Distillery kindly allows Arran Brewery the use of a few of their used whisky casks as an early Christmas present (what whisky has been aged in each cask is always kept a close secret so as not to spark jealousy!). Arran Brewery then uses these casks to create their whisky cask aged Special Reserve beers.

This year, after receiving three fantastic casks, Arran Brewery invited Lochranza Distillery Manager Stewart Bowman down to the brewery to try the product of their friendship for himself and to present him with his very own bottle of each of the Special Reserve Beers!

Arran Brewery Retail Manager Yorick said: “We’ve always got on really well with everyone at Lochranza so it’s always lovely to be able to produce something together with them every year, after we tried this years batches we knew Stewart had given us some really special casks and my first thought was to get him down here at the brewery and have him taste them for himself!”

Everyone at Arran Brewery and Arran Distillers is looking forward to more years of Island friendship yet to come!

If you are looking your own taste of Arran comradery all of this years “Special Reserves” are available in The Isle of Arran Brewery shop at Cladach or on the Arran Brewery website.