The Epochal Brewery use modern techniques to create delicious barrel-aged ales🍺
Glasgow has always had a rich history when it comes to brewing and one entrepreneur is hoping to honour that past by combining Scotland's historical beer styles with modern techniques.
But it didn't quite work out like that, as Gareth explained: "It turned out that the same week I got my PHD, I also won the UK National Homebrewing Awards and a £5,000 prize [he still has the giant novelty cheque] in 2015 and that prompted me to realise that brewing could be the job."Brewing on a commercial scale also meant he could realise a dream of reviving traditional brewing techniques that previously made Scotland famous around the world.
"I found that there was a very big, understudied and underexplored tradition for making these kinds of beers, at one point Scotland exported more of that kind of beer than France exported wine in the 19th century which is incredible." And that's where the idea for naming for the brewery came from, as Gareth stated: "The name Epochal refers to the bringing together of two different brewing epochs, and also to call something 'epochal' is a ludicrously over the top term of praise and I find that quite funny too."
Interestingly, though it might look similar to the process for making whisky with all of his casks and the longer time it takes to make each beer, but unlike the whisky industry he explained that the casks are only used for fermenting with the microbes adding the flavour and not the casks themselves.
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