A BREWERY has launched a new brand inspired by Ulverston’s infamous skate scene.

Utown beers have proven to be an instant success and are created by the team at Lakeland Brewhouse.

The brand is based on the town in which the brewery is based and its infamous skate scene back in 90s and 00s Four beers have been developed by head brewer Jon Kyme and the team, who have embraced the capabilities of Lakeland Brewhouse’s upgraded brew kit to create them.

Jon, a brewer of more than 15 years, set up Stringers Brewery in 2008 which became Lakeland Brewhouse in 2020.

He said: “While we're mostly known for our ‘traditionally styled’ beers, we've always dabbled.

“In the past under the Stringers umbrella, while we were busy making what you might call ‘local beers for local people’, we also knocked out a double stout (Mutiny, a champion bottled beer of Britain according to CAMRA), a white IPA (Dicky Mo), a couple of Black IPAs and beers in Belgian styles including Furness Abbey which cleaned up at the very first – and final – Global Association of Craft Brewers fest in Berlin.

“Time passes, and things have changed. Even here. The market for those beers called ‘craft’ has blossomed. New investment into the brewery has created the opportunity to make and bring to market all the beers we love.”

There are four new beers in the Utown range. They are: Acid Drop, a raspberry ripple sour, Casper, a New England IPA, Helipop, a helles lager, and Pop Shuvit, a session IPA.

The beers are all brewed from Lakeland Brewhouse’s new £250,000 start of the art brewery, which is 100 per cent powered by renewable energy.

Operations director Callum O’Hare, said: “Jon has done an amazing job in creating four very distinct beers that will cater for a wide range of customers.

“We don’t allow what we have brewed in the past to define what we will experiment with in the future and these four beers are such a great example of moving outside of our traditional comfort zone.

“This is the first time that we have used the expanded capabilities of the new brewery to their full capacity and we are so pleased with the results. This is just the beginning of the Utown brand and we’re looking forward to building upon the momentum we now have.”