Proudly ORGANIc

We produce only premium quality real ale that is naturally brewed and certified organic by the Soil Association. Achieving the Soil Association’s full organic certification in February 2006 was an important milestone for us, and we take great pride in maintaining those high standards with every beer we brew.

We have both producer and processor organic accreditation, and any malt and hops that we buy in are all organically grown. The absence of herbicides, pesticides and insecticides from the farming methods used means these agri-chemicals cannot get into the food chain and the fields can support a whole ecosystem. Organic barley is only grown for one season of the year, allowing the soil to recover between harvests.

Only THE FINEST INGREDIENTS

Treisaac Farm is our 18th century farmhouse and 2.5 acre smallholding, situated just a few miles from the beautiful North Cornish coast near Newquay and the spectacular Atlantic Ocean.

It’s here that we grow the ingredients we use in our brews, including Cornish Green Fuggle Hops, garden fruits and fresh herbs. We strongly believe that the best beer comes from the best ingredients and strive to keep things pure and simple.

Cornish Spring Water

Each brew starts with the beautifully sweet water drawn from our spring. It makes great brewing liquor and adds to the beers’ unique character.

Organic malt

Our organic malt comes from Warminster Maltings in Wiltshire, Britain’s oldest working floor maltings. Their hand crafted malts use the same tools and methods employed over 100 years ago.

Organic hops

We started growing hops in 2004 and began to use them after a 3 year conversion period. Initial trials of Fuggles and First Gold varieties showed Fuggles to be suited to the Cornish climate, but not the hybrid First Gold. After some terrible summers we now have a robust annual crop from about 100 plants, mainly Fuggles with a few Bramling Cross. These are harvested in the second half of August and dried in the brewery ‘hot box’. As they are in limited supply, we only add our Cornish hops as late/aromatic hops to maximise the individuality of their oils and resins in the beer.

Ethical and Sustainable

At Atlantic, we are passionate about making our beer making processes as eco-friendly as possible.

Beer takes quite a bit of energy to produce. To help alleviate this, we have installed a tracking PV solar array which helps provide some of our base energy requirements. We also reclaim the heat from the boiled wort as it is cooled going to the fermenter, so we have hot water/liquor ready for the next brew.

The spent grain and hops are composted and then spread on the hops each year. Growing what we can helps reduce the transport of ingredients coming in. We use lightweight glass bottles, paper not plastic labels and minimally printed cardboard boxes rather than shrink-wrapped cases.