Business: Holding name
Location: Limekilns
Type: Brewery
The Brucehaven Brewery was built by the 7th Earl of Elgin to exploit the barley from his estate.
The brewery was offered to let at various times between 1813 and 1826 when it was described as containing "eight working tuns, with the requisite coolers and coppers, all in capital working order". The malt barns had "two steeps of twenty bolls each, and suitable kilns, all in the best order, with two extensive lofts" and both the brewery and the malt barns enjoyed "an abundant supply of finest quality water" Brucehaven harbour was within a few hundred yards, which meant "vessels of large tonnage can be loaded or delivered at a trifling expense".
There was then a period during which the brewery appears to have lain unoccupied until William Wilson leased the brewery in 1845. William employed five men in 1851, and he was still in occupation in 1855.
By 1865 brewing had ceased though part of the premises were being used by George Ainslie for malting. The brewery was marked as disused on a map of 1896 and was demolished in the 1930s. The area is now occupied by housing.
Active: 1800s - 1860s
Address: Brucehaven
Status: Demolished
Current Use: Housing development
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Books and periodicals
Anon. Eligible going brewery at Brucehaven with large maltbarns attached or separately, and the good-will of an extensive and established business, to be let. Glasgow Herald, 11th Sepetmber, 1926
Gibb, F. The brewers and breweries of Fife. Stirling: Lomax Press, 2012.
