Another quirky ‘tap-house’ for Hereford city centre

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Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:44

By Gavin McEwan - Local Democracy Reporter

A Hereford micro-brewery plans to set up in a shipping container between Hereford’s city wall and its main police station.

Overbite Brewery owner Liam Clarke plans the brewery and “taphouse” for on-site drinking on the site of the former Temple Records in Bastion Mews, off Union Street.

Permission was given a year ago to turn the area into a hub for business start-ups, which included replacing existing buildings with “pods” in former shipping containers, intended to house “commercial, business and service” enterprises.

But this permission would not allow this latest planned use – hence the current change-of-use application, which says the pod will be in use from 4pm to 10pm weekdays and 2pm to midnight on Saturdays.

A premises licence “is being sought simultaneously”, the application says, adding that “initially, at least, the premises would only be open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays”.

The site is already home to Shack Revolution, an “industrial weddings and events venue” owned by brothers James and Rich Manning, who are redeveloping the rest of the site.

The brewery plan would fit with their intention of make Bastion Mews “a thriving, independent quarter with a distinct identity unlike anything else in Hereford”, the application says.

Smells from the brewery would be “barely discernible beyond the immediate confines of the brewhouse and is generally short-lived and not generally regarded as unpleasant”, it adds.

Overbite already provides craft beers for events in the county, including Nozstock music festival.