Lizard Ales is a brewery which has been based in a nuclear bunker since 2008. It’s somehow comforting to know that even after a nuclear war, we’ll still have some breweries in production.

Brewed in an old nuclear bunker at Pednavounder on the Lizard Peninsula, Britain’s most southerly point, Lizard Ales have been producing a variety of real ales since 2004 – using only high quality ingredients and traditional methods, the beers from Lizard Ales capture the true flavour of Cornwall.

Lizard Ales is a “five barrel ” plant producing up to 180 gallons per brew – simple ingrdients – water, malt, hops, yeast and salt – The water is local and untreated save for the addition of a little table salt to give extra body – malted barley comes from Warminster Maltings of Wiltshire who malt Lizard Ale’s mainly Cornish barley – the hops are all grown in Kent or Worcestershire the yeasts are built up from fresh batches sourced from St Austell Brewery.