#37 Playing your part | Wildcraft Brewery

The UK is blessed with breweries of all shapes and sizes.

Some are tight-knit, modest operations while others operate out of facilities that could be mistaken for an aircraft hangar. 

That doesn’t mean that one is good, and one is bad, or vice-versa. They’re just different and of course, variety is the spice of life.

And while Mike Deal and his team are unlikely to come across many spices in the vast greenery that surrounds their brewery, working with locally-foraged produce has been a major part of Wildcraft Brewery’s ethos since its formation.

The former teacher turned head brewer at the Buxton, Norfolk-based business takes pride in the beer he makes and the role the brewery plays in the local community.

In this episode, he talks us through his journey, the brewery’s expansion plans and the ways Wildcraft has worked with the wider world during a challenging 2020.