How we've helped Bearded Brewery

Tired of the stresses from running his car business, he sold this on and made the brewery his full-time enterprise. Bearded Brewery now sells their own cider creations from their micro-brewery in a converted barn at his home. From their favourite “juice from the noose” Suicyder to a Moustache Mango the range extends to cherry brandy and sloe gins.

This is not his first business rodeo, taught by his business minded Dad that cash is king. His original investment in Bearded Brewery was just £15. They made their first commercial batch thinking it would last around 2 months but sold out in three weeks! Scaling up from making 1000 litre batches to 15,000 with their aim for this year to hit 80,000 litres selling online and at two venues in Cornwall.

Rob met with Connector Mark back in February 2019. They discussed finance options for the business and Rob later went to an Access to Finance course to learn more. Rob decided to use his existing profits to invest in scaling up the business which meant he had control over the speed of growth and development areas.

During Covid the front of house trading took a back seat with Rob working on refurbishing and opening a new venue in the centre of Falmouth. Hoping to spread his trade over a longer season with the locals and student population and continuing to hit his growth plan.

The Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Growth Hub from May 2016 -  June 2023 was part funded by the European Regional Development Fund and match funded by Cornwall Council, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership.  The project received £2,848,591.49 of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020.