Tring Brewery Launch the Piggeries Taproom, Featuring Fourteen Draught Beers and Vintage Bus
- Guild Secretary
- Oct 21
- 4 min read
The Piggeries Taproom and Courtyard acts as the on-site tap for Hertsbased outfit Tring Brewery.
Tring Brewery have announced the launch of their on-site taproom and courtyard space. Pouring fourteen beers across cask and keg, The Piggeries Taproom and Courtyard is based at Tring Brewery’s site on Dunsley Farm in West Hertfordshire.
The Piggeries is the product of Tring’s efforts to restore a rustic barn-space on the farm, featuring reclaimed pub furniture, vintage signs and mirrors, and newly laid Welsh-slate flooring.
Outside the barn sits Olive, a 1980s double-decker bus that has been retrofitted to serve beer, cider, wine and a full backbar of spirits. Tring Brewery invites drinkers to ‘hop on’, as further seating is found on Olive’s top-deck - offering views of Dunsley Farm and beyond.
Experiential drinking is just one highlight at The Piggeries, as taproom manager Claudia Phillips explains:
“We’re thrilled to offer visitors the ‘wow’ factor with Olive the bus and the nowrestored barn space. But that’s just the beginning. As Tring Brewery’s official tap, we’re pouring fourteen fresh beers year-round. There are plans for small-batch ales to featured too - even more beer to choose from, some exclusive to The Piggeries.”
Claudia continues:
“Whilst the team are proud of our drinks range, our eye for quality encompasses gourmet snacks and street food too. We’re happy to be supporting local with our offer gourmet runny-yolk scotch eggs from Hertfordshire outfit A Good Egg company, with crisps, nuts and scratching from Chesham-based producers Salty Dog.
Though we’ve open for less than a month, we’ve already hosted a variety of street food vendors here. The street food players are a popular offer, and we intend to make them a staple on Saturdays at The Piggeries.”
Founded by Richard Shardlow in 1992, Tring Brewery produces classic styles such as bitters, golden ales, stouts and milds on cask, today complemented by keg lines such as Alchemist Lager and Raven King Hazy IPA. The brewer’s flagship beer, Side Pocket for a Toad, was recently proclaimed ‘Hertfordshire Beer of the Year’ in a competition run by South Herts CAMRA - hosted at St. Albans Beer and Cider Festival. Side Pocket for a Toad was first brewed in 2000, the same year that Shardlow was joined at the brewery by Jackson.
Andrew Jackson, Managing Director at Tring Brewery comments:
“We are so happy with the restoration of the barn and courtyard here on Dunsley Farm. The Piggeries opens a new chapter for Tring Brewery, now serving punters brewery-fresh beer straight from the tank – an historic first in our thirty-two years as a local business.”
The Piggeries is open Thursday (17:00-21:00), Friday (12:00-21:00) and Saturday
(12:00-21:00) weekly, welcoming families and well-behaved dogs. The Piggeries Taproom and Courtyard can be found at Dunsley Farm, London Road, Tring, HP23 6HA, with on-site parking available.
USEFUL RESOURCES + LINKS
Notes to editor/an introduction to Tring Brewery
Tring Brewery Co.
Tring Brewery Co, Dunsley Farm, London Road, Tring, Herts, HP23 6HA www.tringbrewery.co.uk
01442 890721
Tagline: ‘Legendary Beer from Hertfordshire’
Business: Independent, Established 1992
Product offer: Independent cask ales, craft-keg beers and artisan lager
Production: 2M pints per annum
Distribution: Home-Counties (Herts, Beds, Bucks), Oxford, Reading, Cambridge, London, Essex + nationwide through our webshop and other online retailers
What makes Tring, Tring? “Each Tring beer is crafted with imagery and namesake of the historic home-counties, keeping a local tie with the land around us. This local tie is strengthened by our use of mineral rich water from the Chiltern Hills and finished with our signature house yeast strain, now thirty years old, imparting a local terroir to our portfolio of 15 core range beers along with monthly, seasonal and one-off specials.”
Customer introduction to Tring Brewery:
“Tring Brewery is an independent microbrewery based in Hertfordshire, established in 1992 by
Richard Shardlow. Tring Brewery’s second director, Andrew Jackson, joined in the year 2000 as him and Richard set about crafting what is now our flagship beer, Side Pocket for a Toad. Side Pocket for
a Toad is named after an old Hertfordshire phrase for ‘something useless’ i.e. chocolate teapot!
At Tring Brewery, we are proud to produce beer that has been inspired by home-counties folklore both through namesake and imagery, crafted with premium hops and malted barley, blended with Chiltern Hills water before finishing with our signature house yeast strain.
Our brewhouse, today situated on the picturesque Dunsley Farm, has crafted quality ales for over thirty years, each made with a little local folklore.
Visit Tring Brewery to experience our welcoming on-site shop, brewery tours, food pairings and plenty of Legendary Beer from Hertfordshire!”
CONTACT DETAILS -
Jared Ward, Marketing & Communications jared@tringbrewery.co.uk - 01442 890721 @TringBrewery on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
@PiggeriesOfficial on Facebook and Instagram
USEFUL LINKS/FURTHER READING
THE PIGGERIES TAPROOM AND COURTYARD INFO: https://tringbrewery.co.uk/the-piggeries/ THE PIGGERIES TAPROOM AND COURTYARD FAQs: https://tringbrewery.co.uk/the-piggeriestaproom-faqs/
OUR BEERS: https://tringbrewery.co.uk/our-beers/
FOOD MATCHING OUR BEERS: https://tringbrewery.co.uk/food-matching/
BREWERY TOURS: https://tringbrewery.co.uk/tring-brewery-tours/
THE BREWERY SHOP: https://tringbrewery.co.uk/about-the-shop/
CHARITY COMMITTMENT: https://tringbrewery.co.uk/charity/
ENDS
Tring Brewery Co
Public relations contact -
Jared Ward : jared@tringbrewery.co.uk
01442 890721
Third-party news items that are posted on the Guild website come from press releases and emails received by the Guild. These are posted as they have been received. Their publication on the Guild website is an informational service only and is neither an endorsement of the content, nor its sender, by the Guild. For enquiries, please use the contact details that can be found at the bottom of each post.
Comments