UK: Suffolk-based St Peter’s Brewery to invest £3m in a new brewery site

Suffolk-based St Peter’s Brewery, which was founded just over a decade ago, is to invest £3m in a new brewery site to treble production, Morning Advertiser reported March 20.

The brewery in South Elmham, near Bungay, has outgrown its current 13th-Century building and is seeking a new site.

The business was placed on the market in 2005 with a £20m price tag, but was later withdrawn from sale.

Managing director Colin Cordy told the Eastern Daily Press: “Our big challenge is to keep meeting demand and the next natural step is to build a completely new brewery. The process would take up to a year and our aim is to start production at the new site about two and a half to three years from now.”

St Peter’s Brewery, founded in 1996 by John Murphy, is based in a half-moated manor house. Last year, it was awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise to celebrate Her Majesty’s 80th birthday.

21 March, 2007