Cannabrew nearly ready for official opening

A former silk mill has been transformed into a brewery and bar as Cannabrew get ready to open at Galgate Mill in Lancaster.

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00:00 Around four years ago, I was just getting into the beer industry and saw the huge surge

00:05 of the CBD industry.

00:07 We actually had a CBD rep come into our rugby club at the time, talking about CBD and its

00:13 benefits to both health and the body.

00:16 I was just fixated on the topic and really wanted to get involved in CBD and love beer.

00:24 Beer's always been my passion, so I just merged the two together and really started as a bedroom,

00:29 business, and have been working our way up since.

00:33 Opening day is Friday, so we are officially open from two o'clock, but we expect people

00:37 to start coming from five o'clock.

00:39 From five o'clock, get yourself down, and it's going to be a hell of a weekend.

00:44 Expect lots of beers, amazing wines.

00:47 We've got a wine sommelier that came down, and a local group of wine lovers came to help

00:52 us choose the wines.

00:54 Local gins, local spirits.

00:57 We're showing the rugby on the Saturday, all the home nations are playing in the World

01:00 Cup, and then live music from local musicians.

01:03 We've got Steve Wren on the Friday night, who's incredible.

01:07 We've got Molly Warburton on the Sunday, who's going to be playing her new song, Gold.

01:12 Everyone check it out.

01:13 Then also Molly's dad is going to be singing on the Saturday for us, too.

01:17 Cannabrew is different because we're a CBD-infused brewery, so all of our products have CBD infused

01:23 in it.

01:25 It's aimed at everyone.

01:27 I was really shocked to learn about our audience, because we have the older generation drinking

01:33 a lot of our products for the body side of what CBD can do, the anti-inflammatory effects.

01:38 Then we have a really vast majority of uni students and the younger adults, working professionals,

01:45 drinking our products for the more mental side of what CBD can help take the edge off.

01:50 We were looking for a venue to host the brewery, locally, obviously.

01:54 I'm born and bred Lancastrian.

01:57 I love it around here, so I wanted to keep it around here.

02:01 We were looking at an old bank in Morecambe, but unfortunately we got our bid.

02:04 Then the estate agent told me about this place, so we came down, saw it, just fell in love

02:09 with the building.

02:10 It's a 200-year-old silk mill.

02:12 I think it's the oldest silk mill in the country, or was the oldest.

02:14 It's obviously a brewery now.

02:16 It's really cool.

02:18 As you can see, we've got all the features still on show, like the old walls, the original

02:22 walls, the beams, the floors.

02:24 It's just a beautiful building.

02:26 We're really pleased to be in here.