Queen Katherine School friends launch Gan Yam Brew Co in Kendal
Gan Yam Brew Co launched its website on Monday and production is officially underway at the site. Founders Christopher Gibbons, Christopher Talbot, Jonathan Le Mare, Jonathan Rigg, Nicolas Graves, William Burgess and William Wilkinson all attended the Queen Katherine School together and the brewery is just across the road on Shap Road Industrial Estate. The friends began brewing beer in 2017 in London - initially from a stove top before moving to a 100-litre pilot kit to develop their recipes. But they always planned on ‘gan yam’ (going home in Cumbrian dialect) to their hometown....