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Black Isle is a Certified B Corp
We’re thrilled to announce that Black Isle has become a Certified B Corporation, joining a community of over 6200 businesses around the world dedicated to creating a more sustainable and inclusive economy. B Corp certification is awarded to companies that...
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Partnership with Commonwealth medallist Finn Crockett
We’re delighted to introduce our new partnership with Finn Crockett; local lad, long-time Black Isle fan and as of last year, a Commonwealth Games medal winner in road cycling at the tender age of 23. Finn grew up in Strathpeffer...
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Collaboration with Fortrose Academy
Since 2020, we have been working closely with the students at Fortrose Academy. Two groups of students come to work in the brewery garden over a 12-week period. They work closely with Alexander, our Head Gardener and a trained horticultural...
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Meet Our Creative Genius
We often get asked about our wonderful label designs, so it's high time we introduced you to the amazing artist behind them all - our very own Alex Gladwin! We asked Alex to give us the inspiration behind her amazing...
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Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update September 26th
On Friday September 23rd we were honoured to host the wedding of Andrew & Corey McCormack in our Fort William bar. "The Black Isle Bar was the perfect intimate location to host close family and friends. Being one of our...
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Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update September 8th
We recently had some aerial photos taken of the farm and brewery and we're delighted with how they turned out. Scroll through and have a virtual tour of our130 acre organic farm, where we have worked to increase biodiversity, planting...
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Northwoods Rewilding Network
At the Black Isle Brewery Farm, we recently became a partner within the Northwoods Rewilding Network, a Scotland-wide chain of landholdings committed to nature recovery. Its partners share a vision for an ecologically-restored landscape, where habitats are better connected and...
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Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update June 15th
Come and learn how to make a shrink pot on our organic farm at Black Isle Brewery. Guest host, Aaron Sherritt, will take you through a range of traditional "Green Woodworking" techniques to create a shrink pot using hand tools...
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Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update June 1st
Exciting times at the brewery with our friends North Brewing dropping by to brew a collab with us North Brewing are from Leeds and describe themselves as a "joyful family of great bars, great beers, great drinks and great people"...
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Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update May 1st
The third course in our series, Harvesting and Successional Sowing, will focus on the best ways of harvesting and providing a continuous supply of fresh produce with advice on successional sowing and intercropping. Also tips on indoor growing and perfect...
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Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update March 21st
On our little organic farm, deep in the Highlands of Scotland, we are occasionally thrown a curve ball. For all the beautiful sunrises, sunsets, snow-laden winters and glorious summer skies, we do get the occasional breath of wind. Recently, several...
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Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update March 7th
Our organic brewery farm is called Allangrange, or Allann-Chrain, which translates as 'a fertile field of corn' – the perfect place for a brewery! We know that people have been living and farming here for millenia and we’ve always wondered...
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Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update February 22nd 2022
Did you know that our farm gardens are dug in a Triskele shape? You can see the full scale of this in the arial photo, taken in March 2021. The Triskele represents motion and the cycles within nature - perfectly...
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Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update February 11th 2022
The weather might be a bit dreich but our growing season is already well underway thanks to our wonderful Keder Greenhouse. Here are our equally wonderful volunteers, Nick and Steff, adding fresh compost (made from the brewery's spent grain) to...
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Our Journey to Net Zero
Black Isle Brewery was founded in 1998 on the basis of a single core principle – that we can make a range of delicious, organic beers whilst minimising our impact on nature and championing environmental causes wherever possible. This ethos...
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12 Days/12 Ways
For the 12 days of COP26 we shared 12 ways in which we're working toward a greener future.
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Championing the Wilder Side of Life with MTBeer!
Bringing a passion for bikes and beer together, our latest can release celebrates the stoke and hard earned sweat from a day in the saddle: MTBeer. Championing the untamed outdoors, it highlights some of the things we care about –...
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Meet the Man Behind Our Brewery Shop Mural: Fin Barge
Fin Barge is an artist from Loch Fyne, in Argyll and Bute. He’s put his skills to work using eco paints on our brewery shop walls, bringing all aspects of Black Isle together within one organic message. Find out more...
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Black Isle Win Best Brewed at the HIFAD Awards 2018
We’re delighted to win this year’s Highlands and Islands ‘Best Brewed’ at this year’s Highlands and Islands Food and Drink awards. Celebrating the night with hundreds of other Scottish companies at the Kingsmill hotel in Inverness, we were treated an...
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The 23 Trees Project
In early 2017, we brewed 23 Trees, a Citra Saison in memory of the 23 ancient broad-leaf trees needlessly cut down next to our organic farm. Together with this beer, we also planted 200 new trees – to support the...
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