Scottish craft beer brewery and bar owner BrewDog is opening a site in Exeter. This will be its second move into Devon following the announcement of a bar for Plymouth a month ago.
The company applied to move into an empty unit in Exeter’s Queen Street Dining, last occupied by Scandinavian restaurant KuPP in July 2018.
BrewDog had identified Exeter as a location as part of its “Great BrewDog Hunt 2019”, a campaign to find new locations for their bars with a finder’s fee of £5,000 or £10,000 for members of the public.
The company are also planning to open a bar in Plymouth’s new city centre leisure complex, The Barcode. They are moving into a 4,000sq ft unit at the complex next to Drake Circus Shopping Centre.
The sites in Exeter and Plymouth will be BrewDog’s first in Devon. Currently, in the South West, they have a bar in Bristol.
BrewDog was forced to close 100 of its bars during the coronavirus lockdown. Pre-pandemic, their profits were £14.9 million, up 72%.
