To gain its listing, CAMRA members have monitored and visited HARBWR Brewery on a regular basis, have spoken to head brewer Richard Johnson at length about his ales and checked on the beers being produced, before reporting back to the Guide and recommending the brewery’s inclusion. As CAMRA is a nationally respected guide for beer connoisseurs, this is a real endorsement for this fledgling local brewery.
Not only does HARBWR Brewery get its first mention, but neighbouring pub, The Buccaneer Inn, and its sister pub, The Hope & Anchor Inn, both of which serve the four HARBWR core ales, are also listed. This is the Hope & Anchor’s 12th appearance in the CAMRA guide and the pub is a regular venue for CAMRA meetings and other more ad hoc visits from dedicated CAMRA members. The Hope & Anchor is also amongst the handful of pubs listed in the Pembrokeshire section of the prestigious The Pub Guide 2017, published by the AA.
HARBWR Brewery produces four core ales - each named after much-loved iconic boats that have graced Tenby Harbour: MV Enterprise, RFA Sir Galahad, North Star and the most recent, an IPA called Caldey Lollipop. Richard and his small team of brewers are currently working on a seasonal beer to be unveiled soon. Again this beer will celebrate one of the historic boats or ships of the Harbour, but with an unusual twist…
In 1566, the La Nossa Signora sailed into Tenby Harbour from Aveiro in Northern Portugal, carrying the first ever cargo of oranges into Wales. To celebrate this fact, 450 years later, HARBWR Brewery’s new porter style ale will be brewed and infused with orange and hints of chocolate, a few hundred metres from where those oranges first landed.
The brewery has an atmospheric tap room upstairs, where visitors can sample and enjoy the beers, and there are also gift packs to be enjoyed at home. In addition, the brewery has recently unveiled a series of storyboards along the stone walls outside, which celebrate the harbour, her boats, famous characters who have lived in or loved Tenby, and the irrefutable and long-standing connection between the harbour, drinking and a love for local pubs.