"About eleven years ago we visited Boon in Belgium and were delighted to find their geuze in tiny 25 cl beer bottles in the brewery shop. It seemed outrageous to have such a beer in such openable bottles. Needless to say, the remainder of the trip was peppered with tiny geuze portions at every opportunity. Breakfast geuze?

Last year we filled a blend of Running Beer into 375 ml half Champagne bottles for the first time, with the aim of having a more portion size option of our house beer. We've come to the conclusion that we only did half the job though, and are delighted to present Running Beer in our lovely 330 ml beer bottles, slowly conditioned in bottle just like the 750s (which we will continue to release Running Beer in too).

Running Beer is the first beer we designed for Mills Brewing. It is the purest distillation of how we make beer. This is blend sixteen. The average age of the beer at bottling was 25 months.

We aim towards a similar flavour profile for Running Beer each time, however we still have no set recipe. The grains and hops are varied for each brew. A variety of worts are produced using traditional turbid mash methods and aged hops, before spontaneous fermentation in different types of barrel. We welcome the natural variation given by the wild fermentation. At the point of blending, our aim is to make the body relatively full for the ABV. This is aided by the inclusion of large quantities of rye grains in most of the brews we use in Running Beer"

"Bottled Dec 2025 - A session strength version of Islay Brut, our peat-smoke Champagne beer. Referred to in-house as "the beer no-one was asking for." Tiny Islay is a single barrel release, brewed in March 2023. The worts was produced from a traditional turbid mash with a decent quantity of maize, giving a more delicate flavour and paler colour than malted barley. It underwent spontaneous fermentation in a small Islay whisky barrel, imparting aromas of maritime peat smoke. Upon tasting the barrel, we were delighted to find the beer possessed just the right balance of dry-bitter and sweet-acid, as well as the necessary body to carry the smoke, without the need for the ABV-boosting sugar additions we have previously utilised to strike the right balance with these smokey beers. Finally, the beer was conditioned in-bottle for four months. A large dose of priming sugar was added to produce a rolling, Champagne-type, carbonation. The resulting beer drinks remarkably easily, with delightful sweet, smoky, and spicy aromatics."