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Pub of the Week: Cocksure tap room
Bristol was named as the tap capital of the UK recently, with many of the city’s best breweries regularly opening their shutters to welcome drinkers who can then sample their wares metres away from where the beer is made.
The latest addition to their number is Cocksure, a brewery who has relocated lock, stock and barrel from Thornbury to St Philip’s in a small industrial estate close to Totterdown Bridge.
Founded by two friends, Calum Doutch and Dan Snow, who met while working together at Bath Ales, Cocksure give 50p from every case and £1 from every cask or keg to the charity Send a Cow to support their sustainable farming projects in Africa.
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Cocksure’s beers are made downstairs with their tap room on a mezzanine level upstairs
On a recent Friday evening after work, the hum of chatter could be faintly heard outside, getting louder climbing the stairs up to the mezzanine level on which the city’s newest tap room is on.
The tap room is split into two either side of the staircase: on the right is the bar with ten keg lines, while on the right are four long tables made from scaffolding poles, flanked by benches.
Calum and Dan built almost everything here themselves, with the bar made from concrete slabs above wood from the brewery’s former home.
On tap on this particular Friday night (for now the tap room is open on Fridays from 5pm to 8pm and Saturdays from 2pm to 8pm) was Cocksure’s Amber Session, Pale Ale, Session IPA, Latest Haze and Nitro Cold Brew Stout, with the stout brewed only hours earlier.
Only the hardiest drinkers or those already with a beer jacket had taken off their coats as the bitterly cold night outside permeated through the walls.
In the summer months, Calum and Dan will be inviting food traders to park outside the brewery. Now, in the midsts of winter, the cold didn’t stop the chatter getting increasingly louder as the night wore on.
Bristol’s newest tap room is a welcome addition to the club.
The bar is made from concrete slabs above wood from the brewery’s former home in Thornbury
Cocksure tap room, Unit B, Totterdown Bridge Industrial Estate, St Philip’s, Bristol, BS2 0XH
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