Loch Ness Brewery and institute settle dispute with fruity beer
The Loch Ness Brewery has teamed up with soft fruit experts from the James Hutton Institute near Dundee and a Fife berry farmer to create a new blackberry beer, earlier this month.
Berry LochNESS beer was born out of a possible dispute over use of the Loch Ness name.
The Drumnadrochit-based brewery has been trading since 2011 under the Loch Ness name, and Loch Ness blackberries were developed and launched in 1989 by the James Hutton Institute.
A phone call and some explanation not only resolved any brewing issues but also soon turned into a conversation about the possibilities of teaming the namesake products to make something new that would create profile for both firms and for their respective industries, Loch Ness Brewery claimed.
Jonathan Snape, md of James Hutton, commercial affiliate of the James Hutton Institute, said: “It’s great to be able to create a product that teams many aspects of Scotland’s resources to make something new and of top quality: great fruit, bred and grown in Scotland, our pure, abundant water and our home-grown barley and brewing expertise.”