Today is a momentous occasion that sees us brew our 500^th Gyle (batch) of beer at Wild Horse. We’ve invited our good friends from Blackjack Brewing Co in Manchester down to help us mark the occasion with a collaboration brew. Exciting!

The inaugural batch of Wild Horse beer was brewed on 31^st March 2015 on a tiny 80 litre brew kit. That first beer was a one-off American Brown Ale called Fifty-Five brewed for a local event. Since that first brew we’ve produced approximately 1.5 million pints of wort (unfermented beer)!

Dave continued to brew on that 80-litre kit until April 2016 and kept himself very busy indeed with 88 brews, 77 being double (160L) brews (a double brew is 2 single brews into one double sized fermenter – we count double brews as 1 Gyle).

Our 16 Hectolitre (1600 litres) kit was installed in April 2016 and since then we’ve completed 244 single (16HL) brews and 149 double (32HL) brews. Chuck in some test & pilot brews and we’re at that magic 500.

Keep an eye out in a few weeks’ time for the release of today’s collab brew. Here’s to the next 500 Gyles!