Black Isle Brewery
Black Isle Brewery was founded in 1998 by David Gladwin at Old Allangrange, a farm near Munlochy on the Black Isle peninsula north of Inverness. Every beer is brewed from organically grown malt and hops, with water drawn from the farm's own borehole; spent grain goes back to the livestock. The range runs from a top-fermented, cold-matured blonde through hop-led pale ales and IPAs to porter, oatmeal stout and Scotch ale, plus the low-alcohol Halo line. The company is controlled by the Gladwin family and runs its own bars in Inverness and Fort William.
Beers by Black Isle Brewery
15 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Black Isle Brewery brew a broad range across 7 style families.
Across these 15 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Goldfinch
Their beers place in the Top 65% of the catalogue on average, across 12 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Black Isle Brewery
Black Isle Brewery was founded in 1998 by David Gladwin at Old Allangrange, a farm near Munlochy on the Black Isle peninsula north of Inverness. Every beer is brewed from organically grown malt and hops, with water drawn from the farm's own borehole; spent grain goes back to the livestock. The range runs from a top-fermented, cold-matured blonde through hop-led pale ales and IPAs to porter, oatmeal stout and Scotch ale, plus the low-alcohol Halo line. The company is controlled by the Gladwin family and runs its own bars in Inverness and Fort William.
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