Black Mountains Brewing Co.
Small-batch beers brewed with Welsh malt and Usk Valley water.
Two friends, one ten-barrel kit, and a stubborn belief that good beer should taste of where it comes from. We brew in a converted cider barn outside Abergavenny using floor-malted barley from a maltings two valleys over and water straight from the Usk catchment, soft, low in minerals, and exactly what a clean modern pale ale wants. We do four core beers (Usk Pale, Monnow IPA, Black Mountain Stout and a rotating seasonal) plus monthly small-batch experiments that only ever appear at the brewery taproom.
Visit us
Taproom open Friday 4pm to 10pm and Saturday 12pm to 10pm. Dogs welcome, kids until 8pm. Brewery tours Saturday 2pm, £15 with a flight of four halves.
The team
Owen Carter
Co-founder & head brewer
Ex mechanical engineer, ex homebrewer, now full-time obsessive. Designs every recipe and tastes every batch before it leaves the brewery.
Daf Morgan
Co-founder & taproom
Runs the taproom, the events, and most of the social. The reason there is always a guest cider on at the bar.
Catrin Hughes
Brewer & cellar
In charge of fermentation, packaging and the small-batch experiments that show up on the taproom board each month.
Gallery
What we make
Usk Pale Ale 4.2%
Our flagship pale. Citra and Mosaic hops over a soft Maris Otter base. Bright, easy-drinking, lightly hazy.
£3.50 / 500ml bottle
Black Mountain Stout 5.4%
Smooth, dark and properly chocolatey. Brewed with roasted barley and a touch of oats for body.
£4.00 / 500ml bottle
Monnow IPA 6.0%
A big, juicy modern IPA. Late-hopped and dry-hopped with Citra, Simcoe and Galaxy. Tropical and resinous.
£4.50 / 500ml bottle
Brewer's mixed case
Twelve bottles, four of each core beer (Usk Pale, Monnow IPA, Black Mountain Stout). The easiest way to try the range, and the best value per bottle. Packed in a recyclable card carrier with tasting notes.
£42.00 / 12 x 500ml