'Good friends deserve a good drink'
"All we ever wanted to be was a nice, community place to meet and have a drink," says Ryan Pickering.
"But I think a combination of factors have led to micropubs and craft becoming popular. Independence brings a certain price point, independence means we can work with independent breweries and not be controlled by bigger breweries." "That's where big breweries and the pub chains they control have been slow onto that, which has enabled the craft breweries to thrive because more and more places like ours are open."
"We opened with the idea in mind that it would be somewhere we would like to drink ourselves", Ryan explained. "It would sell the sorts of beers that we would want to drink. Through offering a different experience to bigger pubs and championing independent beer, The Beer Lab has built a community of regulars. For Ryan, the most rewarding part of running his pub is the people who have made friends through drinking there.
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