Welcome to the famous Hogs Back Brewery,
Surreys largest independent brewery.
We are a small craft brewery based in Surrey situated just north of the A31 Hogs Back road between Guildford and Farnham. A visit to the Hogs Back Brewery is a fascinating experience.
The first ever brew of 10 brewer’s barrels (around 3000 pints) began at 6 am on the 4th August 1992 and sold out rapidly through a few of the local pubs. We currently brew over 200 brewer’s barrels which is in total 57,600 pints a week. The original brew house was in one part of the complex of the 18th century farm barns which house the brewery today, this creates a rustic backdrop to the business of brewing ale.
We have expanded rapidly and improvements have included re-equipping the fermenting room, extending the storage facilities and enhancing the brewery shop. Since the first brew the outline of the brewery has remained essentially the same, but it has been extended several times. The brewery used to be a logical process flowing through in a straight line from malt intake through to racking and bottling. Over the years the Mash Tun, Copper, FV’s and CT’s have been replaced and expanded to increase the capacity from the very small 10 barrel plant to a 40 barrel plant.
As for our malt and hops, we used to have to buy in all our malt pre crushed from outside suppliers which then arrived in 1 ton pallets of individual 25kg malt sacks, but in September 2012 we finally expanded this side of the operation by the addition of a 30 tonne capacity silo for pale malts and our very own mill on an automatic malt transfer system that will be programmed for each brew and will automatically take the correct amount of malt for each brew and only need a small amount of human handling for the addition of our speciality malts.
Our brewery Shop and Off License is situated on the premises, we not only supply our own fine ales in both draught and bottled, but literally hundreds of other bottled beers from around the world. From notable Belgian beers to almost unknown types from South America to China and, don’t forget a big variety from many small UK breweries.
