Black Isle Blog

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...

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...

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...

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...

Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update June 15th

Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update June 1st

Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update May 1st

Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update March 21st

Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update March 7th

Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update February 22nd 2022

Black Isle Brewery & Farm Update February 11th 2022

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...

12 Days/12 Ways

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!

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

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

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

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!

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

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:...

Black Isle Brings the Beers to the Eliminator Mountain Bike Festival

Muckmedden’s Eliminator Mountain Bike Festival had us head south, to the bonnie banks of Fife for the second in the series.