A £200,000 investment has financed the installation of a new state of the art bottling line and packaging facility in Black Wolf Brewery.
The new facility has the capacity to bottle all of Black Wolf’s beers, and will be used to contract bottle for other small- to medium-sized brewers and drinks manufacturers. The line will be in place later this month.
The new bottling line will enable beer and other products to retain the highest quality during the bottling process. Bottling at Black Wolf Brewery will be carried out under stringent hygiene conditions, and the beer will be sterilised using micro filters to ensure the flavours created in the brewing process are maintained.
The line will be able to bottle small to medium quantities of beer, and use different packaging sizes and formats, giving the brewery much greater flexibility in the range of beers which can be produced and bottled.
There are also environmental benefits of the investment as it will reduce the carbon footprint of the brewery significantly, by cutting out all of the transport of Black Wolf beer to other bottlers, and it will use less energy because there will be no need to pasteurise the beer.
The project is going ahead thanks to the assistance of a £45,000 grant from Scottish Enterprise.
Andrew Richardson, a Director of Black Wolf Brewery, said “This is a big investment for us which will transform our business. It will give us far greater flexibility so that we can produce different speciality beers, or beers to celebrate big events like the Olympics, or indeed for customers who want their own beer. We also intend to use this facility to bottle for others in the drinks industry.
I should like to thank Scottish Enterprise for their support which has enabled this project to take place.”
Black Wolf Brewery is a craft brewery located in Throsk, near Stirling. The brewery produces a range of award-winning beers in cask, keg and bottle, and is owned by VC2 Brands.
