Opinion pieces
As you may have seen from our socials, we’re hosting a get together for our Primordial Radio Family on Saturday. We’re expecting to be very busy and, while we expect we’ll be able to fit you all in but, some things will be a bit different from usual. We have Read more…
Tom’s Tap and Brewhouse, in partnership with Crewe based band Bored Adventures, are pleased to announce that £1,145 was raised for two good causes at the Unsigned Crewe Youth Music Festival held at the venue earlier this year. Venue manager Jacqui Ayling said “Tom’s Tap was so excited to hold Read more…
Since 2019 Tom’s Tap has subscribed to ‘The Everyone Welcome Initiative’. The initiative was set up, so that anyone walking into a venue can feel safe, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, race, health, religion, age or disability. Tom’s Tap takes pride in an environment that is inclusive and secure; Read more…
The “Merry Month of May,” is a time of warmth, renewal, and celebration. It is a time when nature comes alive, flowers bloom, and the world is filled with new energy and vitality. This also includes the Cider orchards of England with the apple trees coming into blossom. What better Read more…
Easter will be soon be here and for some us the chance of a well earned break!. However, at Tom’s Tap we are still working hard to ensure that you have the best of times. Look out for some old favourites such as Comedy Night and Strange Crewe; and check out Read more…
As 2022 disappears into the sink hole of eternity and 2023 emerges blinking into the sunlight, can we now look forward, with optimism, to a brand new year? It is generally agreed that January is a quiet time for the hospitality trade. Nonetheless, we will still be running our regular Read more…
Please forgive the pun in the blog title (It’s a song by the band Clutch, if you didn’t know) but it perfectly sums up the last couple of days. You’ll have seen by now my last blog on the numbers we’re expecting to face next year in terms of malt Read more…
I got a call from a journalist yesterday asking me if a recent claim that a pint could cost £20 (in London, by next year) was accurate. It prompted me to check our figures both in the bar and the brewery. Keeping abreast of rising costs is simultaneously one of Read more…
Four years ago today Jacqui and I were signing paperwork in Redwillow in Macclesfield to buy what is now Tom’s Tap and Brewhouse from Michelle. I’m not sure any of us could have predicted what would happen next but here we are four years later still trading. We thought that Read more…
In many respects the past year has been different, in many more exactly the same as the previous one. Given that we’ve been stuck in a pandemic for the best part of two years some would say that simply by surviving we’ve done ok. I started preparing this retrospective by Read more…