A Sussex brewery is set to double in size.
Three Acre Brewery, based in Blackboys near Uckfield, is expanding to cope with growing demand for its ales.
The brewery will take over the neighbouring space, which has been used for the past few years by another independent brewery.
This move will more than double the brewery’s floor space.
The brewery is also currently in the process of converting the former railway signal box at Uckfield train station into a small pub.
Three Acre Brewery was started by three local lads (Image: Three Acre Brewery)
In reference to the expansion, director Chester Broad said: “This is huge news for us, giving us the room to grow output significantly over the mid and long-term.
“It will also make the working day more efficient and enjoyable for our team, and enable new meeting spaces for us, our customers and our investors.”
The expansion will also allow for significantly increased brewing and fermentation capacity.
In addition to the increased brewing capacity, the company will also have more cold storage space.
The signal box at Uckfield station will soon be converted into a Three Acre pub (Image: Oast House Archive)
Brewing director Jamie Newton said: “This expansion will not only accommodate greater volumes of our own beers but also the combined output of our fledgling wholesale arm, Sussex Beer Trader.”
Three Acre Brewery started buying and selling other local breweries’ beers in addition to their own back in July.
Thanks to the expansion, Three Acre will increase their own output as well as the wholesale operation.
The expansion will significantly increase capacity (Image: Three Acre Brewery)
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Newton added: “This wholesale operation, alongside our brewing, has meant we’ve become a central curator and handler for Sussex and Kent beers and opened up new markets with highly sought-after regional customers.”
Extra brewing capacity will be needed once the Three Acre brewery tap opens in Uckfield’s former signal box, he said.
The expansion comes at “just the right time” for Three Acre, which had been weighing up its options with regards to additional space needed to allow the brewery to grow over the long term and overcome the constraints of the current site.
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