When Ozzy wrote a song called Crazy Train, almost 40 years ago to the day, who knew he was singing about 2020?

What. A. Fucking. Year.

We started brewing just as lockdown set in and had to shift to cans from brew 2 onwards to survive this crazy ride. However, survive we have and, as we looked to put our first beer into keg since lockdown, we hooked up with the guys over at No Fit State Clothing to collab and bring something fitting for our ‘return’ to keg.

And here it is….

CRAZY TRAIN. A 6.2% hazy IPA brewed with Southern Cross and an experimental US hop, to bring lemon and grapefruit citrus and tropical notes with a smooth bitterness.

This is going 100% into 30L kegs. Available direct to local Brum trade so hit us up! For further afield contact Eeebria Trade.

We are also mega excited about some associated merch dropping real soon, so keep em peeled for further announcements!!

3 fresh new beers are NOW live on the web shop!

Life Was Peachy DIPA, The Number Of The Feast Choc Ice Ceeam Stout and Red Before Black Triple Fruited Gose.

As before we are offering FREE local delivery to B, some WS and some WV postcodes, to all orders over £30. If you’re local, collection is available for orders of any value, and further afield delivery is £7.50 UK wide.

As we’ve 3 pretty diverse beers available this time, rather than get too prescriptive with the ‘Tap Room At Home’ beer and snack bundle we’ve done before, we are offering a coupon code “TAPROOM10” that you can add at checkout to receive 10% discount! Simply choose ANY 8 beers – either Leviathan or anything from our guest selection, choose ANY 2 snacks, and receive 10% off your beers, plus the snacks for FREE. We’ve added some great new snacks to the offering!

We are in the process also of adding the range of Pizza kits from Bare Bones Pizza, so you’ll shortly be able to add their delicious home made pizza kits to your beer orders.

TRADE CUSTOMERS – Beers are now available via Eebria Trade, via the following link….. https://www.eebriatrade.com/producer/show/1143?r=leviathanbrewing

If you’d prefer to deal with us direct, sign up with us at https://www.leviathanbrewing.co.uk/trade-registration-form/

All orders will start shipping tomorrow!! Thanks to everyone for the HUGE ongoing support!

With Tap Room plans on hold due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, we have been trying over recent months to bring our Tap Room to you, with our various “Tap Room At Home” bundles of beer and snacks.

Whilst that will continue, we have been looking at how we can bring you even more the Tap Room experience that we had planned, today, at home.

We are really excited to announce that we have teamed up with local family business ‘Bare Bones Pizza’ to bring you their ‘Pizza At Home’ kits!

Bare Bones Pizza have been serving up wood-fired pizza for 7 years. You may have spotted them at Digbeth Dining Club, Chelsea Flower Show, Crufts and everywhere in between. Known for serving up pizza topped with passion, behind the Bare Bones Pizza logo is a small family run business with real passion for what they do.

With the onset of Covid-19, they too have had to adapt their business and offering and have found a way of bringing the best pizza in Birmingham to houses across the Midlands. Their DIY pizza kits are complete with everything you need for a fun and filling evening in with family and friends, and even include a colouring kit to keep the little ones (or big ones) entertained whilst it’s in the oven! Their pizza kits are a labour of love, from their family to yours.

The kits are fully customisable and available as vegan, vegetarian or gluten free.

The kits will be available via our web shop as an add-on only to beer orders. You’ll be able to specify Friday or Saturday delivery and they will be hand made that day with the freshest ingredients. Everything you need for a delicious pizza will be included – fresh pizza dough, sauce, toppings etc. They have also teamed up with ‘Pip’s Hot Sauce and ‘The Cookie Mumsters’ for some really cool collab kits!

Unfortunately, we will be only offering this on LOCAL orders – B and selected WS and WV postcodes!!

Beer and Pizza. It’s an absolute no brainer, right?

For more info on Bare Bones Pizza, head on over to barebonespizza.com.

Morning all!

Just wanted to give you all another heads up on 3 new Leviathan beers being canned next week! These are being canned on the 22nd and will be going live on the webstore for both trade and direct sales that evening. Trade customers that use Eebria will be able to pick up via that route, or indeed we are able to deal direct if you’d prefer (sign up at https://www.leviathanbrewing.co.uk/trade-registration-form/ )

First up, we have ‘Red Before Black’, a 4.7% Triple Fruited Gose with Redcurrant, Blackcurrant and Blackberry. It’s been brewed to be crisp, light and refreshing, with 10g/l or 10% fruit in the batch. An absolutely perfect summer smasher.

Beer 2 is the return of an old favourite, again the perfect summer beer. ‘The Number Of The Feast’ – a 6.66% Chocolate Ice Cream Milk Stout, full of creamy milk and dark chocolate!

Lastly, this big hitter is back. ‘Life Was Peachy’ – a 8.5% DIPA, brewed with Mosaic, Cashmere, Azacca for a big pithy orange, grapefruit and stone fruit hit.

All 3 beers will be hitting the webstore on the 22nd and will be offered individually and as part of a new updated “Tap Room At Home Bundle”. Keep your eyes out in the coming days for some very, very exciting news on a fantastic food addition to these next bundles!!

Nina Simone once sang – “it’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me, ooooooooh. And I’m feelin’ good”. Pretty much how I feel every morning, or at least how I’ve felt for 50 years 2 months of the 50 years 4 months of my life. A feeling I especially had when I decided to start this venture and brew full time.

Yep, it’s been a funny 2 months. As you know, I started up in earnest in February of this year, just as lockdown occurred. This meant, like many, a need to massively adjust what I was doing, hence the switch to cans. Not something I, quite frankly, wanted to be doing from day one. But, if nothing else, I have always been super flexible, super adaptable and always comfortable to adjust what I am doing, both professionally and personally.

The 1st 4 beers canned have been received OK, from a personal point of view nowhere near the standard I am aiming for, but improving with every brew.

So, where are the new beers you are wondering?

I had 4 cans go down well, and have received huge support from both a core of wonderful local people, and from further afield and from trade. The plan was to increase output a little and be canning 3 beers a time every 2-3 weeks. However, having just installed my kit and started brewing in January, i expected some teething / bedding in issues. With everything else going on, I have had to battle through such issues to get beer out there. I’ve not been happy with what’s been out there (I never will be) and unfortunately some big challenges happened during 2 brew days, affecting the overall process and ultimately the resulting beer, so much so that I have tipped 2 brews away due to them being substandard. This, on top of 2 issues causing 2 mashes needing to being dumped half way through, has been a bit of a kick on the balls.

Now, I’m not one for being negative, or dwelling on things, Setbacks are something to ignore. You put them behind you, pick yourself up, and crack on. That’s what I do. However, unlike me, I’ve had something of a shit, wasted month. I just want to be getting good beer out to you lovely people and the issues I’ve had, plus the effect of lockdown and the usual bi-annual cycle of waiting for cancer scan results (delayed, which didn’t help), I think resulted in me being a bit under the weather by my own standards. So, I’ve had the day off with the fam, I’ve been sorting issues out at the brewery and, most importantly, I’ve just re-brewed “Life Was Peachy” DIPA (8.5%) and “The Number Of The Feast” Stout (6..66%). Feels like a month wasted, in fact it has been a month wasted, but back in the game.

In 2 or 3 weeks these will be canned with a triple fruited Gose. I’ve also planned the next 3 beers after these – a return of a table beer “You Can’t Quit Me Baby (3%), a Mild (Yes, a Mild in cans!!) and a NZ hopped IPA I’m particularly looking forward to, that will be around 6.,5%

So, what’s the plan moving forward?

Well, Tap Room plans are on hold at the moment. i occupy a small space. The safety of you all is hugely important. There is nothing I would love more than to have built and opened the Tap Room now as planned and be welcoming you all. Sadly that will have to wait. The plan is to shortly start getting the Tap And shop ready so I’ll at least be able to offer collection of small pack, and container fills, both of Leviathan Brewing beer and selected guest, so please bear with me.

Production wise, as I mentioned, next 6 brews are exclusively cans, but the plan after that is 2 :1 can and keg. 2:2 if I can get hold of another Unitank. I’m also in prelim chats with the unit next door with regards to taking over that, which will allow expansion. Seems weird talking expansion when I’ve just got going, but with the current 5BBL brewhouse more fermenters is the most cost effective way off increasing production to allow both cans and kegs moving forward, given subcon canners MOQs.

To finish, just want to give a MASSIVE shout out to everyone who has given Leviathan Brewing and me huge support over the last 6 months. You’re the reason why I will continue to build on what I’ve started here, so THANK YOU, it means SO MUCH.

Keep things peeled for updates, there’s a lot more beer coming!

Cheers

Chris

Around this time I had hoped I’d be able to open our Tap Room doors to the general public. With the onset of the Covid-19 outbreak this was obviously put on hold and, until experts and not politicians decide what is safe, this will remain the case.

To enable the business to continue to trade through these difficult times I have been canning every brew and selling them largely to trade and some direct via the webshop. This will continue and there will be 3 new beers dropping in a few weeks.

One thing I have been looking into is allowing orders to be placed for collection, so that I can remove the current minimum order value of £30 and I am pleased to announce that from next week I will be offering this option.

To take advantage of this simply order and pay through the site in the usual way. You will see that for orders under £30 no shipping options are available, only collection.

Orders over £30 will qualify for delivery in the same way as now, with free local delivery still available for all B and selected WS postcodes. Further afield will remain at £7.50 for delivery.

Initially I plan to open for collections from 12 – 6pm Monday to Friday. Please do try and allow a little time between order and collection, to allow for your order to be packed and to avoid unnecessary waiting around.

I would stress the unit will remain closed to the public for the time being, for the safety of you all, so I will only be able to handle orders placed and paid for in advance via the webshop.

Cheers!

Chris