Brewery Tours in Lancashire | Lancaster Brewery

December Opening Times

Friday 20th - Saturday 21st	Open 12-5pm
Sunday 22nd-Tuesday 24th	Open 12-6pm
Christmas day & Boxing day	Closed
December 27th - 31st	Open 12-6pm
New year's day	Closed

Kelly's Kitchen will be serving food on Saturday's & Sunday's.

We are occasionally closed for private functions, please check our opening hours regularly before travelling to us.

Trade sales are OPEN MON - FRI 9am-5pm please call 01524 848537 to place your weekly order.

Closed Christmas day, Boxing day and New year's day.

Brewery Tours!

Gain an insight into the day-to-day inner workings of the Brewery during our relaxed and informal tour. Covering all the necessities of the brewing process beginning with the malt silo right through the underback and copper to the racking machine and cold store. Asking as many questions as you please is actively encouraged and we hope you leave having learned something new.

Tours are currently running from Thursday to Sunday with selected dates and time slots available - subject to availability! Pre-booking is essential.

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1st June 2022 Important Note: We will no longer be accepting any Groupon vouchers purchased from today onwards. We will, of course, honour all such purchases made prior to today. This is due to innumerable emails, letters and telephone calls to Groupon requesting that they halt selling our vouchers, being ignored. It is sad that such a well known company feels the need to resort to such shabby and sharp commercial practices.

15th June 2022 Important Note: ALL vouchers purchased from ANY third party site (Groupon, Travelzoo, Red Letter Days etc) will NOT be able to be used from 1st September 2022. Please ensure you have booked your brewery tour before this date otherwise your voucher will become invalid.

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PRE-Booking is ESSENTIAL for all of our tours. On occasion we do have too close for private functions and events so time and dates are selected. View our online booking calendar here for a hassle free way to book!
If you would like you can call us on 01524 848537 opt1 or Email tours@lancasterbrewery.co.uk (Calls and emails are monitored Monday-Friday 9am-5pm)

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Milling

First we crush the barley grains just enough so that it exposes the starchy centre of the seed (grist) without damaging the grain hulls that encase them.

Mash Tun

The starch is then transferred into a mash tun, where it is mixed with heated water in a process called mash conversion. The conversion process breaks the starch down into sugars.

Lauter Tun

The mash is then pumped into the lauter tun, where a sweet liquid (known as wort) is separated from the grain husks.

boiling

The wort is then collected in a vessel called a kettle, where it is brought to a controlled boil before the hops are added.

Wort separation and cooling

After boiling, the wort is transferred into a whirlpool for the wort separation stage. During this stage, any malt or hop particles are removed to leave a liquid that is ready to be cooled and fermented.

cooling

Fermentation

To start the fermentation, yeast is added during the filling of the vessel. Yeast converts the sugary wort into beer by producing alcohol, a wide range of flavours.

Maturation

After fermentation, the young craft beer needs to be matured in order to allow both a full development of flavours and a smooth finish.

Cellaring

After reaching its full potential, the beer is filtered, carbonated, and transferred to the bright beer tank, where it goes through a cellaring process that takes 3-4 weeks.

Packaging

The end product is then packaged ready for delivery to our beer stockists such as pubs, supermarkets and restaurants.