Exclusive, imported craft beers for UK distribution

Stiegl is Austria’s largest privately owned brewery and in 2014 was voted Austria’s favourite beer. Founded in 1492 in Salzburg, there is documentary evidence that suggest Mozart drank it in his day … and he was a genius! It’s still a family run business so they don’t have to make any shareholders happy. As a result, all of the money gets re-invested into making better beer. Stiegl now boast one of the most modern breweries in Europe. They work together with farmers to ensure the quality of their ingredients and they even have a small farm of their own. They’re on the national rail network too!

Brauerei Schrems is a small local brewery situated in a nature reserve in the north of Austria where the water is perfect for brewing and the organic farmers grow malt and hops to Karl’s exacting specifications. Schremser produces a range of traditional and innovative beer styles that are starting to gain international recognition such as their famous Bio-Roggenbier, a Rye beer that won silver medal at the beer world cup in 2008. It tastes like liquid bread topped with spicy vanilla ice cream. Their lagers are legendary too and after some convincing, they agreed to brew one just for us!

“Item taberna in Hurde solvit talentum”…
these historic cryptic words about the Hirt brewery were recorded back in 1270, and for those of you who know your beer but aren’t quite so hot on Latin: this means something along the lines of “Equally, the tavern at Hirt shall pay one talent”. This may not sound terribly exciting on the surface, but it’s pretty significant. Why? Well, it was with these very words that the Hirt brewery was given its first ever mention in the assets register of Gurk Cathedral Chapter, earning it the title as one of Austria’s oldest breweries.

Brewmaster Karl fermented his first cider as a young schoolboy, many years before he was of legal age to taste it – but with superb ciders of this standard the result, who are we to argue? Since that first foray into fermentation, the young sensation never stopped experimenting, working with a huge range of different sorts of fruits and flavour combinations. This passion for natural ingredients and the wonders of fermentation is shared by our team and is reflected in our range of innovative ciders on offer for distribution.

Following some lively discussions and an incredible trip to the Czech Republic in 2019, we're over the moon to be linking up with CzechTrade and Czech Beer Alliance to showcase the best of the country’s beer. The CBA is the Real Bohemian Lager Ambassador to the UK & currently representing several independent Czech brewers which we are bringing the the UK. These include Albrecht, Bohemia Regent, Cvikov, Kanec, Kutna Hora & more!

The Klosterbrauerei Andechs is a monastic brewery in Andechs, Upper Bavaria, Germany – an area well known and loved for its Andechser beers. There’s something truly special about the speciality beer originating from this brewery, and we’re proud to represent them. Perhaps the magic touch is due to the fact that the brewery is run by the monks of Andechs Abbey, a priory of St. Boniface's Abbey, a Benedictine abbey situated 40 km away in Munich.

When it comes to bringing home the bacon, assuming that bacon is made of the world’s best craft beer, nobody does it quite like Ska. Somewhere out in Colorado, in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-five, two guys named Dave and Bill learned that while they loved gulping down good beer, they weren’t yet old enough to buy it. On the second Skaturday of Skatember it hit them. If they brewed their own beer they’d have all the beer they could ever want. And while they were at it, why not brew the most magnificent suds ever quaffed in their neck of the woods.