Chris Gill hardly has space to move when he brews his award-winning real ales.

His Ascot Ales brewery, a small unit on an anonymous industrial estate in Camberley, Surrey, is about the same size as a double garage.

With his brewing tanks beside one wall, and barrels on the floor, there isn’t much room to turn around.

Add the piled up sacks of malted barley and bags of pungent hops, and you really do have to watch your step.

Thankfully small seems to be beautiful for the 40-year-old’s growing band of customers.

Made entirely by hand, his range of real ales use only four natural ingredients – water, barley malt, hops and yeast.

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By Will Smale