Ideal Day Family Brewery

Our new home is an old dairy right in the middle of town, on the banks of the River we love so much. It has lovely tiled floors and faces the setting sun.

Over the next couple of months we'll be installing kit, unpacking boxes and getting settled in. We'll try and keep everyone updated as we go.

We have some very happy news to share. We're moving the brewery to our home town of Lostwithiel, on the banks of the River Fowey. The chance to have a 5 minute walk to work, be close to the boy's school and jump straight in the river after a hot brew day was too good to miss.

Stopped by @burtonbridgebrew.bsky.social on our way to Sheffield. Absolute delight, delicious Brewer's Gold and Best Bitter.

Cheers to all the parents panic making World Book Day costumes

Why do we love Grisettes? They are a hidden gem, a classic little beer beloved by modern brewers and 19th Century French peasants alike. The Gallic cousin of the Anglo-centric Table Beer. Effervescent, crisp and super refreshing, grisettes feel like the perfect Spring beer!

Our 100th Brew - Dawn Chorus Grisette 3.4%

A true brewers beer, absolute refreshment, the lovechild of a Table Beer and a Saison. Fresh cut flowers where you can still smell the herbaceous of the leaves as well as the petals. Dry with a gentle, bready malt character and silky wheat smoothness.

Our latest beers are about looking beyond the colder months, banishing the darkness of winter & feeling the fresh growth of Spring. Our focus moves to lighter, refreshing, characterful beers:

Dawn Chorus: Grisette 3.4%

Keep Flying: Wheat Beer 5.2%

First Steps: Ester Beer 5%

First tap takeover in Japan!

Crispiest Way Out West yet! And we finally got round to writing some tasting notes! Here we go...Classic pithy orange and pine with an estery lift, snappy with percussive bitterness, dry finish with just a touch of cracked black pepper.

See you there!!

We will be bringing our beers to These Hills 2025!
Over the moon to be invited along side kindred spirits and heroes of ours. Plus it's a family friendly festival so we can bring Rowan and Oti are two little ones!

Spent Friday brewing a new beer called Keep Flying. It's our take on a wheat beer made with Bay leaves from Nia's mum and dad's garden and coriander seeds. Fruity, herbaceous and delicious, everything we want in our beers.

Very excited to be part of this year's Little Summer Beer Bash 2025! Let us know if you're coming to Kernow.

LSBB is a brewer-run, intimate beer festival co-hosted by @verdantbrew.bsky.social , DEYA and Left Handed Giant.

A lot of looking to the sky going on, waiting for the first signs of Spring

In the meantime I think we'll just cozy up with a Double Mild and plan the veg patch until the wild garlic pops up.

Big Spade: Double Mild heading out today to all the amazing bars, pubs and bottleshops who work with us. We added in a beautiful print from our artist Max.

Great listen!

Just finished bottling Way Out West: Crisp Pale! This is a very different style of pale beer - it is dry and crisp with a percussive bitterness. An abundance of floral and citrus notes work to compliment the herbaceous and snappy cracked pepper base notes.

We're in the thick of it right now, phonics galore!

Our two new beers sum this up perfectly; Big Spade: Double Mild and Campfire: Hoppy Stout.

Brewing & its boundaries of style can be rigid & prescriptive. We believe beer is best when full of life, flexible & buoyant, questions of identity unheard over the joyous noise of its existence.

You definitely earned that gold star ⭐

'This my friend, is a pint' Merry exclaimed with a twinkle in his eye.

Big Spade: Double Mild. Malty, toasty and sweet caramel joy. Just enough bitterness to hold it together, but not a hop flower too many. Nourishment for the soul in a joyous clink of a dimpled tankard.

Big Spade: Double Mild best drunk after digging a big hole in the veg patch. Can be enjoyed in other scenarios but digging is the main and I'd say only hobby in our house at the moment.