Soft Landing
Back down to earth. The year started at full throttle. First our Boilerhouse beers launched us into deep space with a heavy hitting banana porter. Then came that fiery ginger rice lager, brewed to mark Chinese New Year, rocketing like a firework. A beer that arrived with real noise and didn’t apologise for it. Now its time to come back down with a Soft Landing.
Think of it like a comfy pillow catching you after a long day. Dark brown in the glass, but easy-going from the first sip. Gentle roasted notes give depth without weighing things down. A subtle lift of stone fruit keeps it lively. Light in strength, full in flavour. It brings richness, just not weight.
OUR SMALL-BATCH MICROBREWERY
In a quiet corner of our brewery yard, up a small, clanky metal staircase, is an unassuming green door. Behind it once stood the boiler, now redundant and removed, the steam ceased to billow above the old boiler house. Until now. With the void created by the removal of the boiler tank, we gained space for a different kind of tank and, above all, a space to think. A thirst for experimentation is part of our DNA: lagers in the 50s, Moonraker in the 60s, Harvest Ale in the 80s, and any number of seasonal ales and collaborations more recently. Today, behind that small green door is where we brew our small batch beers. It’s a place to foster that spirit of innovation and to explore distinctive, challenging new beers—brewing them with integrity in just the right amounts. We’re on a mission to experiment with new styles and varieties of beers, but with nearly 200 years of brewing history behind us. This is the next chapter of Greengate Brewery’s story. And when we talk of this initiative, this innovation, it will simply be known as The Boilerhouse.
