Craft Beers Spreading A Little Cheer

Shop owner taps into new opportunities to deliver an essential service for customers

- Elaine Livingstone

Outside of lockdown, Grunting Growler is a craft beer shop and bar. We have 200 rotating beers in our fridge and six taps for fresh pours that can be taken away – or customers can sit in with them.

It’s always lively and, because it’s such a small place, strangers always end up becoming friends. Everyone has a good laugh and split beers with each other.

Before lockdown officially came in, we were closing up – until we got the news that off-licenses were essential shops. Never in a million years would I have expected that to happen, and we changed our plans overnight.