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Bristol brewery donates money from every beer to charity
Bristol’s newest brewery has relocated lock, stock and barrel from Thornbury, with its two co-owners hoping to open the tap room that they have built by hand before the end of this year.
Cocksure now brews its beer from a small industrial unit in St Philip’s close to Totterdown Bridge.
With the beers made downstairs, a mezzanine level upstairs has been transformed into a tap room with ten keg lines and a bar made from concrete slabs above wood from the brewery’s former home.
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The tap room has already hosted some private events and will soon be the latest such bar to open in Bristol where beer is served just metres from where it is brewed.
Cocksure brews almost 2,000 litres of beer every week
The brewery has a core range of five beers
Cocksure was founded by friends Calum Doutch and Dan Snow who first met while both working in sales for Bath Ales.
Their core range currently includes five beers: a pale ale, amber session, cold brew stout, IPA and session IPA, with Calum and Dan aiming to make craft beer more accessible.
“Bristol has already got a great craft beer scene,” Calum said on a recent Monday morning at the brewery. “We want to add our own take on this, creating an experience for people to enjoy our space and our beer.
Plans for the tap room once it receives its license will be to open on Friday evenings and Saturdays, as well as invite a few street food traders to operate from their forecourt.
Cocksure’s new home is in Totterdown Bridge Industrial Estate on Albert Road
The unique selling point of Cocksure is their partnership with Send A Cow, with 50p from every case and £1 from every cask or keg donated to support the charity’s sustainable farming projects in Africa.
Calum is due to be travelling to Ethiopia on Saturday to see for himself some of the projects and the families that the charity has supported.
“We felt that as a small start-up business, why don’t we do this from the start,” said Dan. “It’s about giving something back and if we can help people, that’s great.”
Read more: ‘There’s no reason why Bristol can’t become the UK craft beer capital’
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