A Scottish craft brewer has bought the Inveralmond Brewery after raising over £3million through crowdfunding.
Innis & Gunn purchased the brewery in Perth with the £3.1million raised through its BeerBond crowdfunding programme, which launched last year.
The firm plans to turn the brewery in Perth into a 'state of the art brewing and maturation facility'.
The money will also be used to develop new brewing equipment, including a new oak maturation warehouse, beer tanks.
The craft brewer also plans to install new 'Hop Gunns', which are used to amplify hop aroma in certain beers, at the brewery.
It is also assessing the feasibility of installing a small bottling line in 2017.
Innis & Gunn said the Inveralmond brewing team will be unaffected by the acquisition.
Dougal Gunn Sharp, founder and master brewer at Innis & Gunn, said: "The acquisition of Inveralmond gives us the dedicated brewing facility that we need to meet the growing demand for our beers.
"It gives us a home where we can innovate and experiment with some of the new brewing processes we’ve been dreaming up.
"This is more than an Innis & Gunn brewery; we’re building a totem for innovation and a launch pad for our continued expansion at home and abroad.
"We’ve been friends with Inveralmond for years and I have huge respect for the beers that they make. Ossian, their lead beer, is available on draft at all of our Beer Kitchen bar-restaurants and sells brilliantly because of its amazing flavour, clarity and consistency.
"Taking over an already fantastic brewery gives us a rolling start in the development of our new state-of-the-art equipment and processes, meaning we can grow much faster than if we started from scratch.
"It means we’ve avoided a lot of the red tape and planning issues around building a site from the ground up and we can concentrate on what we do best – brewing beer."
Earlier this month Innis & Gunn launched the world's first 'spreadable beer' to mark the opening of its beer kitchen in Dundee.
The spread combined the craft brewer's oak-aged IPA with Dundee marmalade.
Fergus Clark, founder and Managing Director at Inveralmond said:
“To me this feels like a real win-win. Our Inveralmond beers will gain access to a sales and distribution infrastructure that will massively accelerate the growth of our beers both at home and Internationally, while at the same time Innis & Gunn gets the brewery they want 18 months earlier than if they had to build it themselves. We are really looking forward to starting to brew Innis & Gunn beers on site and seeing where this exciting stage of our combined development will lead.”
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