Me & My Team: Salcombe Brewery Salcombe Brewery has weathered the pandemic, has almost completed a £1m site and is poised to roll out a new canned pilsner this summer, head brewer Sam Beaman tells Food Manufacture.
I have always been interested in real ale, which I guess comes from my first real job: The Bridge Inn in Topsham. I worked there from when I was about 17. They always had six or eight cask beers from local breweries, so I got to learn a bit about beer.
I went to university in Exeter - a geography degree and continued to work there [The Bridge Inn], then went to work in wine mostly from the sales side, but learned how different wines were made and how that influenced flavour.
If pubs stay closed until May I will miss much more than just the beer
For conversation and comfort among friends, enjoying a pint out is unbeatable – so I m already planning my next visit, whenever that will be
Lockdown restrictions may see pubs shut until May this year
Credit: Andrew Crowley
I have always been fascinated by pubs. As a teenager I even found the aroma of spilt beer and stale smoke that emerged whenever I passed an open door beguiling. I had my very first beer in a pub, a half pint of indifferent keg bitter, but once I got to college, going to the pub became part of my life. It has remained so ever since, especially as I am also lucky enough to be able to write about pubs and beer for my job.