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Outstanding sponsorship support from Five Kingdoms Brewery


12 Jul 24
by Nathon Jones

The fabulous team at Five Kingdoms Brewery!

Serving local produce ensures that the project supports local businesses and the local community. A huge favourite are the beers from Five Kingdoms Brewery which are brewed in Isle of Whithorn. We are hugely grateful to Alastair and his team for their very generous support for this year's festival.

Throughout the festival weekend you'll find the following, delicious, beers available on draught at The Vault Arts Centre:

Bright Idea - 3.8%
Prentice - 4.6%
Juicy - 5.8%
Summerisle - 4%

Five Kingdoms started off brewing in 2015 as a hobby and passion project between Alastair Scoular, owner of the local Pub and Restaurant The Steam Packet Inn, and head chef Brendon Dennett, who had previous experience brewing at 6degrees North. With the location, premises and experience of the pub trade and a pure passion for real ale, Alastair and Brendon are the perfect balance for a successful venture to create honest, fine ales.

In cask, keg, can and bottle they offer a wide range of craft beer from traditional real ales, to exciting and rich dark beers, to really inventive hop forward IPA’s. Each beer is uniquely inspired by something important to the Five Kingdoms team, be it a literary character, piece of music, a place close to their hearts or even hard earned personal experience.

Most of all though, the beers are different, interesting and absolutely delicious.

Five Kingdoms Brewery have supported Newton Stewart & Minnigaff Traditional Music & Dance Festival and The Vault Arts Centre, both projects run by local charity Trad Music Trust, for almost a decade now. It is this type of local community, collaborative, support that ensures that visitors enjoy a real Galloway experience when they're attending events at the festival.  It is also testament to the outstanding vision and professionalism Five Kingdoms Brewery have in identifying vital community-led projects in Galloway, and the difference they can make to the local economy.

Five Kingdoms Brewery

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