A BREWERY will be built at Fingal, on land formerly owned by the Freedman brothers to train thoroughbred race horses, after Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors approved an application by site owner Andrew Purchase to eventually brew beer and cider at the green wedge site.
Some councillors at last Monday evening’s public council meeting voiced disapproval about alcohol being shipped in to be sold at the brewery for the first few years of the new venture’s existence.
It will take at least five years for enough hops and barley to be grown on the 160 Sandy Rd land but a majority of councillors decided to give the project the green light.
First published in the Southern Peninsula News – 20 December 2016
