Deeside Brewery

Brewer Rob James started Hillside Brewery in 2006 brewing at his house in Lumphanan. The original brewery was housed in an old croft house and farm buildings on a hillside at the property. A keen local history buff, Rob names his beers after historical figures from the northeast of Scotland. The brewery currently produced about 200 pints per week in bottle and cask-conditioned format for shops and pubs in Deeside and Don. In a short while demand for the beers grew and it became clear that expansion was a necessity.

Through discussions with Hillside's largest customer, Deeside Activity Park near Aboyne, owned by Ken Howie, a planning application was submitted to Aberdeenshire Council to build a new brewery at the Park. This new brewery would increase capacity to about 3,000 pints per week and provide a visitor centre for the brewery. The new 10-barrel brewery plant was installed in December, 2008 and brewed commenced in early 2009. The brewery name was changed to Deeside Brewery with the opening of the new brewery.

Originally all beers were bottled but with the new brewery's capacity Rob is able to produce four regular beers at present along with two occasional ales available in cask with Macbeth, Brude and Lulach available in bottle-conditioned format.

A note about the image above. I stumbled across this brilliant photograph by Shirley, aka "Neepster", through her Wordpress blog - the image origin is at  flickr.com. She kindly granted me her permission to use it and with a little Paint Shop Pro magic, we have a new temporary Hillside "logo". Her photography is amazing and she's a big fan of Hillside's beer.

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