Barry and Henry Chevallier Guild sold their eight generation family cider business at Aspall, near Debenham in Suffolk, to Molson Coors in 2018, which has invested around £20m in the site.

They remain brand ambassadors and Barry lives on site at Aspall Hall, where guests still arrive for a tour of the plant - but have now bought a brewery business up the road in Eye.

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Barry and Henry Chevallier Guild formerly of Aspall Cyder who are now making beer at Eye. Pictured with Adam Huxtable, Marc Medland and Nancy Boardley(Image: Lucy Taylor)

The brothers took the ciderhouse on in 1996, building it from a small-sized business employing about 30 staff into a premium brand with 130 workers and a turnover of £31m.

Since the sale, they have invested the proceeds in a number of other businesses.

But they admit that nothing really captured the magic of those early years at Aspall's after they took over the reins from their father, John, and built it up step by step.

A line-up of Chevallier Brewery Beers from Chevallier EYE PA to Temple Helles(Image: Lucy Taylor)

Now they are back on the shop floor, operating out of an industrial unit with a basic shared office where they can confer with Marc Medland, their head brewer.

He was a part-owner of Bruha, which started out in 2014, moving to its current location in 2017.

Chevallier Brewing Company beer(Image: Lucy Taylor)

Marc estimates there were up to around 3,000 microbreweries in the UK in that pre-Covid era but over the last couple of years, numbers have fallen dramatically with around........

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