St Ives Brewery are calling for community support to help brew a Belgian style dubbel beer infused with wild blackberries.  

The brewery is focused on seasonality and using local ingredients wherever possible, so using blackberries that grow locally around St Ives Bay sense. 

However, they do need quite a lot of them and so are looking for people. They are asking people in the area who might be out for a family walk or stroll if the could collect 2kg of blackberries and deliver them to the brewery on Marsh Lane industrial estate by September 18. 

Head brewer Callum first produced Barnoon Belgian Dubbel last year and it became a firm favourite in the Hayle taproom, with trade customers and online. He had headed out onto the coast path with his partner Amber to collect 20kg of blackberries, enjoying an adventure around the maze of coast and countryside near to our brewery home in Hayle. 

This year he will be looking to brew more, hence the rallying call for community involvement to get to the target of 50kg of blackberries.

Spokesperson for the brewery said: “Craft beer is a hugely popular style of beer at present, with real consumer support for smaller, local and innovative styles of beer. This is just the sort of thing that St Ives Brewery’s head brewer loves, that’s why he set about creating Barnoon, a beer he wanted to reflect the autumn season here in West Cornwall.”