25 Nov 2024
One of the district’s leading independent brewers has started production of its award-winning beers and ales in its new and expanded home.
The team at Farr Brew have been busy transforming a disused barn at Great Revel End Farm, Gaddesden Lane, Redbourn, after having to vacate their previous home in Wheathampstead.
Although still a work in progress, these are the first photos showing inside the facility.
The new location boasts a much larger tap room, complete with pizza oven, with capacity for around 100 people. It features a full bar offering wines and gins as well as their own products and rotating guest craft kegs.
The brewery operation itself can be watched through a special observation window, and they are also offering comprehensive 90-minute brewery tours offering an in-depth look at the recipes and processes behind their beers.
There’s also a huge outdoor seating area offering stunning views over the local countryside.
Farr Brew have been operating as a professional commercial brewery for eight and a half years, and owners Nick Farr and Matt Elvidge admitted they were nearing capacity at their Wheathampstead facility.
Nick explained: “This offers us more space and a bigger capacity for brewing, so we can start selling our beers to other pubs again. The attitude of our new landlord is a real sea change, we’ve developed a friendship and close personal relationship.”
This includes working with their landlord’s father on resurrecting a beer last tasted 300 years ago, after he translated a local recipe using his knowledge and the Farr team’s brewing skills.
They will also be planting barley on the farm next year, which will be dried and malted on site, creating a real field to glass experience.
Other plans include planting a vineyard so they can produce their own wine, while the landowner is busy establishing a glamping site and bee education centre as part of his vision to transform the land into a real visitor destination.
