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Our Journey to Net Zero

29th November 2021

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...

12 Days/12 Ways

15th November 2021

For the 12 days of COP26 we shared 12 ways in which we're working toward a greener future.

Championing the Wilder Side of Life with MTBeer!

29th May 2019

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 –...

Meet the Man Behind Our Brewery Shop Mural: Fin Barge

29th April 2019

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...

Black Isle Win Best Brewed at the HIFAD Awards 2018

17th October 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...

The 23 Trees Project

4th October 2018

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...

Jazzing up the Brewery Walls!

2nd October 2018

Lauren Mercer Smail joined us a WOOF’er back in October 2014 to find out about life at the brewery and our organic farm. Whilst with us, she shared her artistic talents and created an incredible mural of wild, Scottish animals...

East Meets West at Black Isle

17th September 2018

Coming together with Poppels Bryggeri’s brewery from Sweden, we created a big, bold beast of stout, which came to life as Systems Theory. Not content with just one beer, we used it as base for our new barrel aged series:...