Earlier this month, the team at Neptune Brewery moved into their new home. It’s a step that will allow them to cater for increased demand and further cement themselves as one of the UK’s finest breweries.

But this evolution didn’t happen overnight. And while the brewery started out in 2015, the story of Neptune Brewery goes back some years further.

During one their first dates, enjoying pints of mild, a couple while away the evening in one of the UK’s most fashionable cities.

But no, we’re not talking about 2022. Instead this is Liverpool in the late 1980s….

And although they were both working in hospitality back then, little did Julie and Les O’ Grady know that some 30 years on, they’d be running a different hospitality business of their own.

For Julie and they’d meet at Dunny’s Sports & Social Club. They’d get married, and have two children, Les would run a successful aquatics company while Julie had a decorated career in the NHS.

But after Les decide to call time on that venture, he’d hang up his fishing net and pick up his mash paddle, with Julie joining full time several years later.  

Celebrating their seventh birthday earlier this year, Neptune Brewery goes from strength-to-strength. In this episode, initially broadcast earlier in 2022, we discovered how they’ve done it.