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We're making pioneering craft beer on the Isle of Eigg for social and environmental good. We need your help to make it happen!
by The Isle of Eigg Brewery in Isle Of Eigg, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Excitingly, we’ve reached our target with a breath-taking TWO WEEKS left.
With two weeks still to go we have an amazing opportunity to reach our maximum target of £190,000 getting us up and running quicker and allowing us to rapidly meet all our social and environmental objectives. This is where real gains for our community and our environment begin to fly.
The Isle of Eigg Brewery, Scotland’s 1st Co-operative brewery, wants to forge a fairer future. We'd love for you to join us on our journey as we build a brewery that:
Together we’ll make beer that’s truly more than the sum of its blurb.
For 5 years our predecessor, Laig Bay Brewing Company, braved rough tracks, uncompromising weather and the logistics of transporting anything to a brewery-perched-above-the-highest-residence-on-a-wild-island, to make exceptional beer. We brewed for the Highlands and, in partnership with ALDI, for all of Scotland. But we could never make enough, such was our size. This phoenix enterprise, Isle of Eigg Brewery, will redress this.
We want to build an environmentally-friendly brewery to meet the demand for our beers on and off Eigg. Our new site in the heart of the island is perfectly located for both brewing logistics and local and tourist footfall. A bespoke brewkit and a new building will allow us to meet projected and future interest. Our energy requirements will be met using PV solar panels and Tesla Powerwall technology which will also fuel our electric vehicle.
A total of £230, 000 will cover us from foundations to first brew. To fund this we’ve applied for various grants, but need to raise at least £125, 000 in this community share issue.
The Isle of Eigg is a tiny island off the West coast of Scotland home to around 100 people.
In 1997 the community famously raised the funds to buy the island and put an end to hundreds of years of Laird rule. For the last twenty three years, Eigg has been a successful model for Scottish land reform and community ownership. Eigg’s pioneering spirit is instrumental in our vision.
We want to explore community ownership beyond Eigg’s borders, helping to increase our economic diversification and future resilience while sharing our remote island experience. We see beer, the great social leveller, as the ideal way to begin this.
Here's what we can create together:
A brewery that’s for people rather than profit
A brewery that gives rather than takes-from the environment
A brewery that adventures in beer
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