Inches subsequently attended the Heriot Watt Brewing School before becoming Head Brewer at J.
[2][3] Inches sat on the new company's board and supervised the William Younger Brewery, located next door to his former brewing house.
He was President of the Brewers' Association of Scotland from 1947 to 1949, President of the Institute of Brewing between 1952 and 1954, and co-founded the Heriot Watt Brewing Students Association, before becoming an Honorary Fellow the College in 1952; he became a member of its Court when it became a University in 1966.
Two years later, he retired from Scottish and Newcastle and went to live in Bury St Edmunds with his second wife, Pamela, elder daughter of J. G. Moore Bell, of Sutton in Surrey, whom he had married in 1969.
[1][4] According to his obituary in the Journal of the Institute of Brewing, when Inches took up a new role at Scottish and Newcastle, "His natural charm and experience did much to facilitate the integrations which followed, particularly in the field of industrial relations and to support the newer band of technologists of narrower training and experience.