A growing brewery business has moved into a new Northumberland base after the pandemic triggered a heady rise in home delivery demand.
The First & Last Brewery business started out in 2016 as a limited company with founders Sam and Red Kellie ‘cuckoo brewing’ in other people’s breweries as they tested the market. Having brewed and traded successfully from a small space in Elsdon village, and made it through Covid-19 with a rapidly rising demand for home deliveries, the pair said it was essential to find bigger premises to allow expansion.
The brewery makes a number of cask and bottled pale ales and stouts, supplied in casks, mini casks, bottles and variety packs, plus seasonal canned beers using local flowers and fruits, such as Damson Porter and Gorseflower Pale. It produces 6,500 pints per week. Now, having secured undisclosed funding from the Ray Wind Farm Fund, which is operated by Vattenfall and donates money to the rural communities that fall within the catchment area of the wind farm, the business has moved to Foundry Yard in Bellingham.
