Curious Brewery

Designed by Guy Hollaway Architects, the Curious Brewery combines two functions in a single ‘supershed’ - alongside the stainless pipes and vats of the production facility is a visitor attraction comprising space for tastings, a shop, restaurant, and bar. The building makes a bold statement about modern brewing in Britain with a suitably ‘curious’ black façade, which gives little away until visitors step inside where it then opens up the modern brewing process to visitors - with an immersive approach to the brand experience.

The building, set in a 1.6-acre site, houses a total of 19 fermentation tanks, with a total capacity of 2,900hl, meaning that the brewery can hold almost 500,000 pints of beer at any one time.

A sense of the theatricality of brewing also extends to the production facility. Several of the brewery’s giant tanks, including grain and yeast silos, are located on the outside of the building, gleaming against the black flank of the shed, and together with metal stairs and ladders lend a hi-tech air.

Visitor facilities are located at one end, where the building rises to a pitched roof to give additional capacity internally, and some external architectural presence to the most prominent corner of the site. Inside, the bar features a charred Ebony timber front and waxed steel bar top, and a black aluminium lattice ceiling creates the perfect acoustic environment and references the external black diamond cladding.

We worked closely with the contractor to create the best possible finish by specifying our low-profile stainless steel composite panel fasteners with powder-coated heads which blended in perfectly with the cladding.

These fasteners can be matched to a wide range of BS, RAL, and NCS colours with a quick 2-3 day turnaround.