Everytime We Brew, We Try Something New! It’s hard not to when you don’t know what you’re getting! The Makery is a community food project, open to anyone, where we take surplus and foraged produce, mix it with lovely organic and local ingredients to create all sorts of fantastic concoctions. We predominantly brew, making tasty alcoholic beverages that are then shared at a wide range of events, par
ties etc. From the ingrediants that just ain’t good to sip (there are remarkably few!) we make chutneys and jams. We facilitate free workshops in brewing, pickling and preserving, so if you would like to learn how to do these things and make produce to take away home, then please do get in touch either on facebook or by email. Anyone can contact us about our goods, we mainly serve by the keg but at an arranged time you can also bring a container of your choosing to our witches hovel and get it filled up with tastyness! The Makery began when 3 wiley ladies had just returned from cycling the length of the UK and needed to reach their fundraising target for Building Man. On the ride they had been told about ginger beer brewing by a fellow cyclist and decided this would be a grand way to make up the pounds they needed. So…carefully following the emailed recipe they diced, stirred and blended until 5 kegs of ginger beer were bubbling away nicely. They sold these at a variety of events and quickly raised their funds. It seemed that the taste of the ginger beer also lingered with others as soon people were asking if they would make more for different things and so…the story began. All three had always been interested in surplus and foraged food, so decided to move the brewing away from the air mile heavy ginger beer and get more inventive with brewing, working with ingredients that would otherwise be thrown away. Email: [email protected]
