About Us

About Us

How it started

1996

A visit to Boston, MA sparked the idea in Steve and Jo Stewart, of owning their own craft brewery one day. Fast forward to 2004 after years perfecting home brews the first official Stewart Brewing beers were launched.

The First Brewery

1998

The first brew kit was set up in Steve and Jo's dining room and later moved to a coal shed. This was where our first recipes were developed.

Edinburgh Move

2002

A premises secured, tanks and equipment purchased (mostly from Irn Bru and John Smiths), the journey began.

Steve began the exciting task of transforming vessels, originally not intended for brewing beer, into our inaugural production brew kit.

The Big Launch

2004

The first range of cask beers was launched. Six local pubs agreed to stock our beer. We had finally hit the Edinburgh pub scene as Edinburgh's only independent brewery.

New Brewhouse

2013

We opened the doors on our first custom built brewery, just around the corner from our original location.

It housed a custom built 50HL brewhouse, consisting of a mash conversion vessel, lauter tun and combined wort kettle/whirlpool. We soon added 2 'Hop Rockets' to infuse hops into our beers. We then added a centrifuge to remove solids from our beers without filtration.

The Expansion

2020

We added our first canning line, built a new warehouse, began work on our new Beer & Pizza Kitchen and started our Brewery Shop refurbishment plans.

The present

Working from our custom built brewery space in Loanhead we have a team of around 50 helping to create a vast range or beers and deliver our customer experiences.

Using the finest ingredients

Our brewers work tirelessly to turn the best quality ingredients into great beer.

They brew a range from everyday staples to boundary pushing beers using the latest ingredients from our suppliers.

The Future

The future is exciting and the possibilities endless. Purpose, community, environment really matter too. We strive to do our bit to support local events and charities and reduce our footprint on the environment.

Our Values

All about the beer

We are a brewery, it is what we do! Our beer quality is our absolute number one priority always and in everything we do we need to push for and strive to improve our beers.

Exceptional service always

We offer excellent and welcoming service. Try to exceed customers’ expectations, and never ever over promise. If we say we will do something, we make sure we do it.

Work hard and give 100%

We encourage dynamic teamwork and a strong work ethic. We are a team and when everyone works together with a positive attitude, work is fun and productive. We achieve great things when we all pull in the same direction.

Have fun and enjoy life

We spend at least a third of our lives working, so we need to be in an environment we feel valued and energised. We support healthy pursuits and beer drinking as part of a balanced lifestyle and we believe that healthy and highly motivated people are more productive.

Care for our community and enviroment

This really matters, we are part of a community and we are proud of this. We do our bit to support local events and charities and are proud to be a local brewery. We will continue to work towards lessening our impact and seek to introduce solutions to reduce our footprint on the environment.

Midlothian Business Green Pledge

Stewart Brewing is proud to join the Midlothian Business Green Pledge, a scheme that helps businesses improve their environmental performance. By signing up, we commit to making our brewery greener and more eco-friendly, with the support of expert advisers. We believe that this is not only good for the planet, but also for our customers, who can enjoy our beers knowing that we care about our impact. Cheers to a greener future!

Award Winning

We are proud to have over 145 (and counting) awards to our name. Competing each year in the Scottish Beer Awards, SIBA Awards, World Beer Awards and many more.

Our Awards

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