The owner of a North East brewery has told of his disappointment after the National Trust called time on his Garden Tap Pub at a popular North East site.
Bosses at Gibside and Blaydon’s Firebrick Brewery teamed up last year to launch The Garden Tap Pub at the Rowlands Gill National Trust site. Head brewer Alistair Lawrence worked on converting a .former bakery in the Market Square area into a pub with a bar and pizza oven, with seating inside and outside.
The company had provided beer for Gibside’s cafe for a number of years, so jumped at the chance to launch a standalone pub to run throughout the summer months, especially as Gibside would once have run its own brewing operation. Mr Lawrence said it also marked an extension of the brewery’s ambitions to play a key part in the region’s heritage, having launched in 2012 and grown to operate bottle shops in Blaydon and the Grainger Market in Newcastle, while also supplying a number of businesses through its wholesale operation.
