Building on the success of its popular brand leader Gem – available in both cask and bottle Bath Ales has made Gem available in Keg.

It is being rolled out & served at the brand new Colston Hall.

Always nimble and ready for a challenge Bath Ales has installed a Keg Filling System (containers filled under pressure) as an adjunct to its thriving bottling line. It has successfully been commissioned and the keg beer is already out and in the trade.

The machinery – state of the art German manufactured twin head filler – was purchased some time ago but the project has taken over a year to come to fruition due to the bottling line being so busy. Production Director Craig Lewis and his team have harnessed the sterile filtration process from the bottling line and utilized the in-line Co2 infusion to great effect. The quality and control of carbonation process being the key element.

Craig said: ‘We have long admired the small regional brewers that we have come across on the continent, notably in the Czech Republic and Germany.

These quality craft brewers all brew, they all bottle and they all produce kegs. The beers are fantastic and the range phenomenal. They are supported by local customers and the quality is great. In all my travels I have never had a bad beer from these breweries, quite the opposite in fact.”

Craig continued, ‘At Bath Ales the decision was made long ago to embrace the superb values that these breweries convey: quality and consistency. So now we not only have a great cask brewery adhering to the ‘Best Traditions of British Brewing Practice,’ but also a state of the art bottling line and a kegging arrangement that achieves a real point of difference where it counts: for the customer.”

Bath Ales will no doubt be having some fun with a wheat beer, they have cultured up a fabulous German Yeast strain for this.

The beer is now available to try at The Colston Hall bars, which are open to all and not just concert ticket holders.