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West Sussex craft brewery signs Beatson Clark supply deal

Bedlam Brewery has signed a deal with Beatson Clark, giving its standard 330ml amber beer bottle a twist with colourful artwork screenprinted onto the glass by Yorkshire Bottle Solutions.

Founded by a group of friends as a hobby in 2012, the Albourne-based brewery has grown into a small commercial brewery which last year sold around 120,000 pints.

The brewery is based alongside an outstanding winery on a farm estate at the foot of the South Downs National Park, and its founders now aim to grow it into a fully-fledged professional brewing operation.

The new bottles are manufactured by Beatson Clark but sold through Yorkshire Bottle Solutions, a glass decorating specialist based in Normanton, West Yorkshire.

Managing director Dominic Worrall, said: “We try to minimise packaging and have been able to opt for a screen-printed bottle over a printed label to lessen any excessive waste,

“All glass bottles can be fully recycled, which is something we actively encourage and promote.”

“We were looking for a quality UK manufacturer that was happy to work in supporting a new start-up business like ourselves,

“Beatson Clark offered great flexibility and reassurance when walking us through the ordering process for the first time.

“They also offered us a quality design not often found and at a fantastic price point. It was important to us to support UK manufacturing and in Beatson Clark we found the perfect partner.”

Beatson Clark’s business development manager Chris Palmer added: “The environmental benefits of glass are well known, so it’s understandable that an ethical business like Bedlam Brewery will want to choose British-made glass for its bottles,”

“We hold the council contract to recycle all the waste in Rotherham where we’re based, and we’re currently investing in a new £840,000 recycling plant which will make recycling much faster and allow us to process more waste glass for our furnaces.

“We’re delighted to be supplying an ethical company like Bedlam and we think their new bottles look fantastic!”

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