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The Black Isle Brewery and lunch at the Black Isle Bar
Inverness

The Black Isle Brewery – a Farm Brewery Tour and Lunch

A few hours.

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The route

The Black Isle Brewery makes its organic beers on a working farm on the Black Isle, just north of Inverness, and it shows visitors round the brewhouse.

In Inverness, its own bar on Church Street pours them from 26 taps, with wood-fired pizzas made from the farm's produce.

Before you go

  1. Book accommodation nearby

    If you are staying over: here are ours nearest where the day starts and ends.

    The nearest of ours is Newhall Mains in Balblair, 13 miles away.

  2. Book a tour of the Black Isle Brewery

    Ring the Black Isle Brewery's shop on 01463 811871 to check a tour time for late morning: tours run between 10am and 3.30pm, Monday to Saturday, and on Sundays from May to September.

The day

The Black Isle

A look at where the beer is made, among the fields of the farm, then lunch with a pint in Inverness.

About three hours

  1. Black Isle Brewery

    Black Isle Brewery

    The Black Isle Brewery is at Old Allangrange, near Munlochy, where the beer is brewed on the brewery's own organic farm. Tours take you behind the scenes in the brewhouse, between 10am and 3.30pm, Monday to Saturday all year and on Sundays from May to September. The brewery is shut on Sundays from October to April, so ring the shop on 01463 811871 to check a time before you go. The small shop sells the current beers and the brewery's own things. Its organic market garden, which grows vegetables and herbs for the brewery's bars, is a hundred metres away, and visitors are welcome to look in. Whoever drives should skip the tasting and take a few cans home from the shop, or come by taxi.

  2. 6 min on foot

    Black Isle Bar

    Black Isle Bar

    Lunch

    Drive 14 minutes from the brewery into Inverness to the Black Isle Bar at 68 Church Street, the brewery's own bar. Park in the council's Rose Street multi-storey beside the bus station, 6 minutes' walk away, on levels 3 to 10: £3 for up to two hours, £3.50 for up to four, paid on the way out. The bar has 26 taps of Black Isle and other craft beers, alcohol-free drinks and wood-fired pizzas. It opens every day from noon, and families and dogs are welcome.

    More about Black Isle Bar

If it rains

The tour is indoors and so is lunch; in rain, skip the walk to the market garden.

Black Isle Bar