Aberdeen’s only micro-brewery, Fierce Beer, has opened following a £250,000 investment into the business.
The capital injection has come from the joint-owners redundancy pay offs and from initial outside investment.
Fierce Beer, which is located at the Kirkhill Industrial Estate in Dyce, Aberdeen, offers eight beers within its core range, which include ‘Ginja Ninja’, ‘Cranachan Killer’, and ‘Dirty Sanchez’’
The brewery, owned by Dave Grant, managing director, and David McHardy, operations director, has so far put out 20,000 litres, has six FVs and carries out bottling and labelling in-house.
Grant explained: “We are delighted to have made this push into the brewing industry and have invested a lot of time and money into the brewery to ensure the highest quality of produce is used when creating our beers.
“Fierce is all about the flavour and we’re really looking to excite people’s palettes with our new brews. Our beers have been very popular and I think food and drink enthusiasts will really enjoy how different they are.
“We called the company Fierce Beer because we want the tastes to be in your face. If it’s a raspberry beer, we want you to taste the raspberry, and I truly think we’ve got something completely different to what’s available on the market at the moment.”
David McHardy, operations director of Fierce Beer, added: “We have both been passionate about brewing ever since we purchased our first home brewing kits a few years ago. When I met Dave on a brewing course in England it was clear to me then that we would be working in the brewing industry together very soon.
“Launching Fierce to the public has been extremely exciting, and we carried out a lot of research initially, investigating the best local ingredients and the most effective way to bottle our beers, all of which has been really important.
“We have managed to gain the support of a number of larger craft beer breweries and businesses which has been incredible, and I am looking forward to seeing how the company progresses over the next few months.”
