A Plymouth craft brewery, Bulletproof Brewing, is bringing a 160-year-old brewery back to life in the city. The company aims to open a new brewery, tap room, kitchen, brew lab, and beer garden at the former Octagon Brewery site.
A Plymouth craft beer company which started out in a garden shed is looking to bring a 160-year-old brewery in the city back to life. Bulletproof Brewing will soon be producing beer at the Millbay site of the former Octagon Brewery, which was established in 1861.Head brewer and owner Paddy Lawrence, who started brewing in a garden shed in 2017, said: 'From day one, since I started Bulletproof Brewing, it's always been my dream to have something like this.
''No words can describe it,' Mr Lawrence said.As well as setting up a new brewery, they also plan to open a second tap room, kitchen, brew lab and a beer garden at the Millbay site. They launched a crowdfunding page to help raise some of the cash, but were aware it was a huge gamble. Figures from audit, tax and advisory firm Mazars showed the number of breweries entering insolvency in the UK had almost doubled. Sixty-nine went bust in the year to December 2023, compared with 38 in the previous 12 months - a rise of 82%. Steel Brew Co director Neil Carroll said the firm would not have thrived if they were just focused on craft beerMr Lawrence admitted he felt the pressure, but added: 'You don't want to look further in your life and say, 'I wish I had done that'.Plymouth-based Steel Brew Company was one of the casualties, closing in August 2022 before it was relaunched with new owners. However, the industry is a close one and Mr Lawrence and Mr Johnson ended up brewing beer for the new owners.Steel Brew Company now has its own brewer in place and director Neil Carroll said that brought some advantages. 'If you can make your own beer and sell it in the same location, you're cutting out a whole host of middleman costs,' he said.'We wouldn't have thrived if we were singularly focused on the craft ale and craft beer enthusiast,' he said.'We do a lot of private bookings, a lot of live music gigs and we have to accept that craft beer isn't for everybod
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