Eden Brewery is moving to a new location and investing in new equipment to cope with an increase in demand for its beer.

The company is leaving Brougham Hall and will instead be based at the Gilwilly Industrial Estate in Penrith.

This move is set to be completed this week and will give the brewery 4,000 extra litres of capacity for its products, taking its total capacity to 11,200 litres.

This will mean the company will be able to produce 5,600 litres of beer every week.

The premises is four times bigger than the site at Brougham and will see the brewery based in one large unit, as opposed to three separate buildings.

Managing director Jason Hill said the move had been fuelled by a growth in demand.

He said: “Brougham Hall has been a great home for us, but as demand has grown it’s become more and more difficult to fulfil the orders with the amount of equipment we can fit on the site.

“It’s been an exciting time for the brewery over the last few years and we’ve had to work extremely hard to get ourselves established and build our fanbase. It’s also been a process of building our brand and getting a good team of people in place to take the business forward.”

“We’re now in a place where we’ve got so many orders coming in, it’s increasingly difficult to fulfil them all with the number of vessels and the amount of space for storage and vehicle access that we have available,” he added.

Eden has its own range of beer and also makes a number of products for the Westmorland Group to sell at its Tebay and Gloucester motorway services.

It is also producing a re-designed range of canned products to appeal to a growing sector of the beer market.

Mr Hill said: “The number of breweries springing up in Cumbria means the local market is becoming increasingly saturated. Although there is money to be made selling keg beer locally to pubs, we’ve always known that the way to grow as a business is to pursue selling our bottled and canned product further afield.”

The brewery is examining exporting its beer to Japan, France and Sweden.