Bluestone Brewing Co is a microbrewery, established in 2013, based on the family farm in Pembrokeshire. Producing award-winning keg, cask, bottle and canned craft style beers, they have a core range of five beers and a rotating range of seasonal specials.
The ethos behind the business has always been about creating great tasting sustainable beer responsibly and with as little impact on the planet as possible. All of the biproducts from brewing are re-used on the farm or fed back to their animals. The water that they use to make their beer comes from their own well and they also generate their own solar power.
Bluestone Brewing received support from Food Centre Wales when they started their journey to becoming SALSA certified. They were assigned a food technologist who worked closely with them to improve their processes and ensure everything was in place in order to pass the audit.
Benefits of the Support
The advice and support from Food Centre Wales helped them get their SALSA certification, ensuring that they have the confidence that the products they supply are safe, legal and of consistent quality.
Simon Turner, Founder of Bluestone Brewing said, “In order to achieve SALSA plus Beer certification we had to demonstrate that we have high quality food safety systems in place, right across all aspects of our business.
“This certification has enabled Bluestone Brewing to sell to a wider variety of customers and hopefully sell to some of the bigger retailers for whom SALSA is a requirement of supply.”
The support we’ve received from Food Centre Wales has been invaluable, it was great to have somebody on hand to answer our questions and point us in the right direction. The knowledge and experience of the Centre’s team has been key in guiding us through the process.”