Redscar Brewery

On Sunday some of the Beer Blog team arranged to meet at a microbrewery called Redscar. In a nutshell it’s a brewery in the cellar of the Cleveland Hotel In Redcar, run by the Hotel’s owner Chris, who is a really nice bloke and was only too happy to show us around. The brewery is a proper little microbrewery – nothing flash or fancy – just one small mash tun, a couple of 400 litre fermentation tanks and a cold storage room. Chris brews 4 beers: Sands, Pier, Rocks and Beach. They all use the same basic recipe but tweaked with different malts and mash times to give them their own character. I get the impression that Redscar brewery really is built on a love of making good beer. While an amount of commercial success has meant the brewery...

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