A new brewhouse for cask beer production forms a key part of the investment routemap at Thornbridge.

Thornbridge CEO Simon Webster, explained: “We’ve enjoyed really strong growth in both keg and cask. We have always made cask beer and always will.

“Our next stage of planning at the brewery will focus on building a new brew house dedicated to cask beers, while at the same time increasing the production capacity to the main brew house, to meet increasing demand for bottles and keg.

“We have demand for our beers and also the space in which to expand, so we are really well placed to move forward with the plans during 2018”.

Late last summer the brewery made a substantial investment in a new bottling line from market leaders, KHS, and new fermentation vessels to increase production capacity.

Speaking to The Brewers Journal at the time, head brewer Rob Lovatt, described the KHS line as “the Rolls-Royce of bottling lines”.

“Its technology will enable us to achieve extremely low levels of dissolved oxygen in the bottle, it will future proof the growth of the brewery and will prove to be an extremely robust piece of kit with greatly reduced downtime. The bottom line is that we are putting our beer first,” he explained.

Simon Walkden, chief operating officer, added that Thornbridge, which has doubled its headcount in the past five years, is looking to expand its site and is looking to recruit at all levels and functions within the business

“Good people have taken us to where we are today and that will continue. We are very proud of those who have developed with us and we will continue to offer opportunities to our existing team and those who join us in the future.  One post we are keen to recruit is a Director of Sales and Marketing so anyone out there wanting to get on board, please get in touch,” he said.