22/03/2025
When you're going for a beer or some food today, think about the independent places you can visit.
The ones where the money the place earns goes toward local people and keeps communities alive. The folks that produce their own beer or buy local.
It's great going to 'Spoons and having a cheap pint and a meal, I understand money is tight for a lot of folk.
But when you go a chain place like that who benefits? Not the little breweries that supply them, they have to sell low to get the product in there. Not local food suppliers because everything is msss produced and frozen.
Since Christmas we've lost the amazing BitterSuite. It got bought by a chain which will make it a generic footnote in their property porfolio.
Let's not lose others.
So get out there. Visit the taprooms and pubs that are independent, eat at the streetfood vendors who love what they do and serve decent food not mass produced.
Leviathan Brewing The Hop Vault Beerbohm Nothing Bound Brewing Co Green Duck Beer Co. New Invention Brewery The Arcade The Fountain Inn Fixed Wheel Brewery Copper Beech Brewing Company Dr Eamers' Emporium Roberto's Bar - Halesowen The Tamworth Tap at Tamworth Brewing Co
Feel free to add your favourite independent local, let's get them out there, let's get them new visitors!