Loughran Brewing Stores has announced the acquisition of Brewers Select from Bairds Malt. 

Brewers Select was established by Bairds Malt in 2013 to serve as “one stop shop” supplying ingredients and equipment to meet the growing needs of the burgeoning microbrewery and craft beer industry in the UK. Having been a malt supplier to British breweries for many years, Bairds Malt were well positioned to assess the unique demands of UK brewers and build a service to meet their needs by creating Brewers Select.

With a state of the art warehouse facility in Peterborough, an experienced and talented team of staff, and a superb distribution network, Brewers Select has grown to become one of the leading suppliers of brewing materials in the UK. 

Loughran Brewing Stores is a family owned company based in Dundalk, Ireland, supplying brewing ingredients to customers in Ireland, the UK and Europe. James Loughran (Managing Director) is the seventh generation of his family to have been farming barley on the land at Clermont Farms since the first crop was planted 1908.

In 2014, Mr Loughran saw the values of the then nascent craft beer industry – those of people, authenticity, and sustainability – reflected in everything he and his family held most dear, which drove him to create Loughran Brewing Stores.

With a small team of dedicated and hard working individuals, Loughran Brewing Stores began by supplying Ireland’s premier craft beer breweries. Within years the business had grown further, bringing on board a large number of the UK’s top craft beer breweries and several throughout Europe too. 

James Loughran (Managing Director) had this to say on the growth of Loughran Brewing Stores: “From sales, to admin, to the warehouse, our team has helped fuel our growth and supported our vision of bringing the best ingredients to the best brewers. 

And it is here that our customers have been crucial.  Without their support and loyalty of these brewers we would not have been able to grow and be able to take this new exciting step in our journey and bring Brewers Select into our family. 

Along the way we’ve felt privileged to count these brewers not only as great customers but also as friends too.  And we’re looking forward to continuing to work with them on the next stage of our journey.  This trade is about great people and we are fortunate enough to be around some of the absolute best.” 

Managing Director James Loughran on the acquisition of Brewers Select: “We’re incredibly excited to be welcoming Brewers Select into the Loughran family. When we started this journey back in 2014 we had a vision – bringing the best ingredients to the best brewers so that they can make incredible beer. Through the singularly hard work of our fantastic team we’ve been able to carry that out, and to do it in the right way, by consistently delivering what our customers expect, with an eye on the future and sustainability.” 

“Brewers Select has a superb warehouse facility in Peterborough and a great distribution network.  We know that the all the amazing things about Brewers Select, along with its success, has been because of the hard work and skills of the amazing staff in Peterborough as well as the loyalty of its customers.  Brewers Select is a market leader in the UK and a key supplier to a vibrant and progressive industry. 

“Current customers of Brewers Select should rest assured that we have no intention to alter what we know already works so well.  We have exciting and positive plans for the future at Brewers Select and we would like them to be with us every step of the way.  That future will be built on providing excellent service, partnering with the best farms, creating a sustainable business, and being everything we can be to our customers. 

“It will mean offering brewers an even greater variety of superb malt than ever before, and bringing an unrivalled selection of unbeatable quality hops to the UK.  Our growth will allow us to develop even stronger relationships with our suppliers so that we can continue to deliver brewers the superior ingredients and fantastic service they deserve.  Brewers already know our standards are immensely high, so we will continue to offer them only the very best.” 

To demonstrate commitment to positive growth in Peterborough, there will be a change to the branding and name of the Brewers Select business. James Loughran will be adding his family name to create Loughran Brewers Select, with a redesigned website, logo, and correspondence to follow.  

In time, Loughran Brewers Select will embody all that’s great about Loughran Brewing Stores and Brewers Select in the UK, with Loughran Brewing Stores staying true to the company’s ancestral roots in Ireland and serving Irish customers.  

James Loughran: “Rest assured that in all of this we will continue to put our relationship with our customers and our emphasis on personal connections at the forefront of everything we do.”