Five minutes with Faram - Ian Thomson, Cumbrian Legendary Ales
What’s your favourite hop?
Amarillo®

What’s your favourite beer?
Apart from our own…Timothy Taylor’s Landlord

What’s the one item in the brewery you couldn’t do without?
Coffee!

Favourite interest/hobby outside of brewing?
Playing Cricket

Favourite Food & Beer pairing?
Curry with a nice cool lager

Favourite beer destination?
Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater.
https://www.kirkstile.com/

Favourite pub in the UK?
Manor House, Oxen Park (my local)
https://manorhouseoxenpark.co.uk/
https://manorhouseoxenpark.co.uk/

Your biggest inspiration in brewing?
Hayley Barton our previous Head Brewer

What’s the last beer you brewed?
Loweswater Gold

Favourite artist to play during a brew day?
Coldplay

What got you into brewing?
A fascination with beer, always something I hoped to do.

If you weren’t in the Brewing Industry what would you be doing?
Something less enjoyable

Fuggles or Goldings?
Goldings
