Our Beer Shop is closing from 18th December 2024 to 2nd January 2025. Any orders placed in this time will not be dispatched until 2nd January 2025.
Merry Christmas!
Online orders will not be processed over the holiday period, as our beer elves are away from 19th Dec - 3rd Jan.
OUR STORY
Cotswold Lakes Brew Co. (CLB) was established in 2021. Seven work colleagues who loved drinking beer, but knew nothing about how to make it, decided it would be fun to find out.
We set out to create the best-tasting beers we could; but we wanted this idea to be about more than beer. We wanted to make a positive difference, both in our local community and more widely, to help address some of the bigger challenges around us. It’s what we call “Beer. With Purpose.”
So as lockdown started in 2020, all we had of our brewery dream was a PowerPoint presentation. But our goal was to be ready to roll when the world got back to normal. Or in other words when people could go out again and enjoy a beer together. And look at us now!
We’ve achieved a lot in our relatively short history: multiple Great Taste Awards, B Corp Certification and various local sustainability awards. But most of all, we are proud of having built a place where the local community – and visiting guests to the area – can meet, relax, share ideas and have fun. Now in 2026, we are excited to move to a new lakeside home and look forward to sharing the next chapter of our story with you.
Our Values
Responsibility is about building a business that is a force for good, taking care to do the right thing for our employees, the people we deal with, our local community and the wider environment. We want to be successful and grow our business but we’re lucky to be based in such a beautiful place and we’re more concerned about helping to keep it that way.
Collaboration
Whether it’s our friends in the brewing community or the local businesses that support us, we couldn’t do it without them. We are not the finished article by a long shot. But as we continue to learn and our business grows, our commitment is to repay the time, advice and patience that others have shown us.
Responsibility
Responsibility is about building a business that is a force for good, taking care to do the right thing for our employees (when we have some), the people we deal with, our local community and the wider environment. We want to be successful and grow our business but we’re lucky to be based in such a beautiful place and we’re more concerned about helping to keep it that way.
Quality
We strive to create the best brews we can, because selling rubbish beer isn’t a great business model. That means thinking about quality at every stage of the process – where we source our ingredients, the businesses we work with and the standards we set for ourselves. And nowhere is our attention to quality control more focused than at the recipe testing stage – where hours, sometimes days, are given to the cause of making good beer.
Fun
And that sums up the final thing that matters to us – having fun. We’re serious about our beer and our purpose, but if we’re not having fun, we’re doing something wrong. If we want to brew a hot cross bun beer just because it’s Easter, then why not? Or a bonfire-themed brew for those long winter nights, just you watch us! They might not all be a success, but rest assured we had a blast finding out!
