RED RAT CRAFT BREWERY LTD, DENHAM ESTATE, BARROW. GOOGLE MAPS. TEL:01483 724972

COMPANY REGISTERED No 6610062   ©RED RAT CRAFT BREWERY 2009

The Brewery is situated in the heart of East Anglia surrounded by what is widely regarded as the best malting barley in the world. We only use 100% all grain mash in all of our recipes. We don’t use cheaper, quicker and easier to use ingredients such as dried malt extract, cane sugars and even rice. We use just malt, (East Anglian floor malted barley.) whole leaf hops, (no pellets or powder) water and yeast.

Your beer starts in the mash tun as malted barley, we add hot water, which we call liquor and hold the ‘mash’ at around 65ºC for about 1 hour 30 minutes. It is then rinsed with  even hotter liquor to extract fermentable sugars, the liquor is now ‘wort’.  

The wort is boiled in the kettle for approximately 90 minutes and whole leaf hops are added at different stages to add bitterness and aroma which counteracts the sweetness of the beer.

From the kettle it is passed to a fermenting vessel through a heat exchanger that rapidly cools the beer to a temperature suitable for pitching  yeast. The beer stays in the fermenting vessel for anything up to one week depending on the type of beer.

The beer is then passed into a sealed conditioning tank where a secondary fermentation creates CO 2 which is trapped in the vessel and subsequently absorbed by the liquid giving the beer life.

It remains in the conditioning tank for about 1 week at  a controlled temperature, normally around 11ºC, before being racked into casks or bottled.