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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago

A panoramic view of the Kinrara estate
The Kinrara estate sold off by BrewDog extends to 3,764 hectares (9,301 acres) and forms part of the Monadhliath mountains in Scotland. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

BrewDog has sold a Highlands rewilding estate it bought with great fanfare in 2020 after posting losses last year of £37m on its beer businesses.

The company paid £8.8m for Kinrara near Aviemore and pledged it would plant millions of trees on 50 sq km of land, initially telling customers the project would be partly funded by sales of its Lost Forest beer.

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