The holy grail of craft ale in the UK at the moment, Cornish maestros Verdant and their new tap room in Penryn, Cornwall. Visited earlier in the week for a pint and to pick up some cans for sampling by our holiday crew. Suffice to say they didn't last long, everyone got very into trying all the different styles and hop flavour combinations, much supping in reverent silence while nodding the head sagely, a universal thumbs up!
I visited Verdant four years ago and they had not much more than a couple of shipping containers on an industrial estate on the edge of Falmouth, they've clearly done well since then despite lock-down and expanded a lot. It's a nice set up that the firm has now, a modern brewery with what looked like a lot of new shiny stainless steel kit and a large airy taproom with space for at least 100 people and a pizza oven in the corner, I didn't try one but they looked the part. The only challenge is getting there, it's not easy to do it without a car (which is the last thing you want to have when you visit here) we opted to catch the train from Falmouth Town, it's only 2 stops and really quick, but it's a couple of km to walk from Penryn station to the outskirts of town where the taproom is located. I suspect it might be easier, albeit slower, to catch a bus but we didn't get around to figuring that one out this time, ah well, don't need much of an excuse to revisit sometime.
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