Futtle (Lucy Hine & Stephen Marshall)
PRODUCERS
Lucy Hine & Stephen Marshall
TYPE OF AGRICULTURE
Organic
COUNTRY, REGION, SUBREGION
BEER
On a trip in the summer of 2020, taking advantage of lifted restrictions to head roving across the country with our pal Fernando from Otros Vinos; we had spotted a wine & record shop in the East Neuk of Fife and thought we’d go and say hello. An hour and a half into meeting Lucy & Stephen we still hadn’t poured any wine but had discussed music, tasted some cask strength whisky and had a nose around their beautiful brewery, with that summer’s beer conditioning in can.
Feeling a closer affinity with the natural wine world than the beer world, Lucy emailed a couple of weeks later, wondering if we’d be interested in distributing their beers in London. Whilst we are fans of beer, we’re not fanatics; but these shone as an example of how to do things properly.
These are clean and delicious small batch beers made by people that really care, at the beginning of their journey into making drinks with a sense of place. They work with foraged ingredients alongside organic grain and hops- with a view to soon start malting their own organic barley - and are excited to be installing a coolship (open fermenter) this summer for wild fermented beer to age in ex-wine barrels.
Having worked in the drinks industry their whole lives- Lucy in beer and Stephen in whisky- in 2012 the pair moved to Fife, opening their bar & record shop/label Triassic Tusk in 2017, with the brewery established a little later. Initially kegging small brews to pour at the bar and as refills for lucky locals, lockdown afforded them the opportunity to think about taking production further afield.
For any UK wholesale and stock enquiries, please contact hello@winesutb.com
Lucy & Stephen's reimagining of the traditional farmhouse beers that were made by workers on farms all over Northern Europe in the downtime in the farming calendar.