Brief 01Norfolk craft beer

Malt Coast

The read

Proposition
The beer made from barley grown on the very coast you came to Norfolk to see.
Audience
Tom, 42, down for a week on the north Norfolk coast, standing in the Wells Co-op on the first evening, weighing up the 'local' ales in the fridge and wondering which one's actually from round here and which just wears a seagull on the label.
Tension
On holiday people want the place in the glass, not a national lager with a seaside sticker. They're suspicious of anything that wears the coast as costume.
What the category hides
Seaside beer marketing runs on the view and nothing else: a sunset, a sailing boat, a beach name on the label, and a brew that could have come from an industrial unit anywhere in England. The category dresses up in the place but rarely comes from it. What nobody tells the holidaymaker is how much barley travels, how few 'local' beers contain anything local at all, and how rare it is for a brewery to grow and crush its own grain on the same coast it paints on the can. Malt Coast's buried truth: this isn't a beer about the coast, it's a beer grown out of it.

Who you're talking to.

Our read of your buyers — who each one is.

  • Here

    The cottage holidaymaker

    A couple or a few mates down for a week, stocking the fridge on day one, wanting the holiday to taste like the place.

  • Continuation

    The beach-day wanderer

    A walker or day-tripper doing the dunes, the marshes, the pine woods, then the pub.

  • Keepsake

    The gift-and-take-home buyer

    Someone wanting to bring a bit of the trip back for a host, a neighbour, or themselves in January.

Six ideas for Malt Coast.

Develop the ones you'd run — 5 credits each, six finished ads.

Malt Coast product
Drink the field.
Who it's for

The cottage holidaymaker · “Half the 'local' beers are brewed three counties over with a seagull on the label”

The machine

The literal truth pushed all the way: the beer IS the field, so every field, season and stretch of this coast becomes the next line.

Where it goes

On the can: 'Drink the field.' On the farm gate: 'This is the field. Help yourself.' In February: 'Drink last August.'

Why it works

Three words a supermarket lager can never say, because it didn't grow the field. Ownable, sayable, and true to the one thing this brewery does that nobody else does.

The picture

The pale ale can closeup against the real barley field, the watercolour label echoing the view behind it, so the can and the field are plainly the same place.

Run it

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  • Idea 01Finished

    Drink the field.

    Half the 'local' beers are brewed three counties over with a seagull on the label

  • Idea 02

    The opposite of nowhere.

    Most beers could come from anywhere, this one came from down the road

  • Idea 03

    Good enough for California.

    Half the 'local' beers are brewed three counties over with a seagull on the label

  • Idea 04

    Send someone the coast.

    I want to give someone the holiday, not a tea towel

  • Idea 05

    Beer you can stand in.

    Most beers could come from anywhere, this one came from down the road

  • Idea 06

    You'll taste the summer we had.

    In February I want to open something that smells of that week

6 ads · one idea

  • Ad 01
    MC

    Malt Coast

    Sponsored

    The barley grew in a field on this coast and was brewed two hundred metres up the track. When we say drink the field, we mean it about as literally as a beer can — the ground you came to see, in your glass.

    Malt Coast product shot

    Drink the field.

    MALTCOAST.CO.UK

    Grown and brewed on one coast

    A Norfolk pale ale, from the field up.

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  • Ad 02
    MC

    Malt Coast

    Sponsored

    This isn't a beer that name-drops the coast — it's grown in it. The barley came up in a field by the dunes and was brewed two hundred metres on. So you can order a pint of north Norfolk, more or less literally.

    Malt Coast product shot

    A pint of north Norfolk.

    MALTCOAST.CO.UK

    The region, in a glass

    Grown and brewed on the coast.

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  • Ad 03
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    Malt Coast

    Sponsored

    Four miles up the coast the barley grew, a short walk from there it was brewed, and now here it is in front of you. That's the whole journey. Most 'local' beer travels a great deal further to look this local.

    Malt Coast product shot

    Four miles, start to pint.

    MALTCOAST.CO.UK

    The shortest supply chain on the shelf

    Grown four miles up the coast.

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  • Ad 04
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    Malt Coast

    Sponsored

    The barley grew in a field on this coast. It was brewed two hundred metres away. And it's best drunk right here, looking at the dunes it came from. Three steps, one stretch of coast, no lorries in between.

    Malt Coast product shot

    Grown here. Brewed here. Drunk here.

    MALTCOAST.CO.UK

    One stretch of coast, start to finish

    No lorries in between.

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  • Ad 05
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    Malt Coast

    Sponsored

    The field your pint grew in is a short drive away, gate open most days. Come and walk the length of it, then go and drink the result — or just take our word for it, which for once is completely true.

    Malt Coast product shot

    Walk the field. Then drink it.

    MALTCOAST.CO.UK

    Come and see the field

    Gate open most days. Case on the way.

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  • Ad 06
    MC

    Malt Coast

    Sponsored

    Most beer on that shelf has been around — grain shipped in, brewed miles off, then trucked to you. Ours grew in one field by the dunes and was brewed a short walk away. The shortest journey up there, by a distance.

    Malt Coast product shot

    The shortest beer on the shelf.

    MALTCOAST.CO.UK

    Grown, not shipped

    One field, a short walk to the brewery.

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