Stuarts' Sausage gets Scotland Sizzling

Butchers throughout Scotland have had great success with a recipe concocted in Buckhaven - the unlikely combination of Sweet Chilli & Iron Brew.

The sausage, created by Stuarts of Buckhaven, won the Speciality Sausage Contest for Scotland’s Craft Butchers in May last year.

But now the Fife-based butcher and baker is keen for its fizzy invention to become a best-seller for other Scottish butchers.

Alan Stuart, managing director of Stuarts, says he can’t believe that other butchers are still not selling this "special cocktai", stating: "To me it should be the national sausage of Scotland."

Scottish Craft Butchers, the body that looks after the interests of 450 Scottish butchers’ shops, accepted Alan's challenge and the Sweet Chilli & Iron Brew Pork Sausage went nationwide for British Sausage Week which ran from 31st October.

The winning recipe and point-of-sale material was sent out to all craft butchers' shops throughout Scotland and they were able to make this latest invention themselves.

Since the recipe and posters were sent out, Scottish Craft Butchers’ Perth office has received calls from butchers from as far north as John O’Groats down to the English Border, all saying how delighted they have been with the recipe and stunned by just what a sizzling success the new bangers have been.

Ian Faulds of David Faulds & Son in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, said he was pleased to receive the recipe that demonstrates the common resolve of craft butchers to develop unique products that make them stand out from their multiple competitors.

He commented: "Iron Brew with Sweet Chilli Pork Sausage links to one of Scotland’s great icons and I’d like to think that my customers will enjoy what has proven to be a top-selling sausage elsewhere."

Scottish Craft Butchers.

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