Brains Brewery is returning to St Mary Street with a new venue that will feature interactive sports game pods, allowing customers to step inside real stadiums and try more than 100 immersive games including rugby, golf, and cricket.
Return to historic site
The brewery, along with Breaking Brands, the Welsh-based pub company that runs Coyote Ugly, Temple Bar, and Filthy McNasty's in the city centre, will open The Old Brewery at the former home of Brains Brewery. The site, in the city's historic brewery quarter, was home to Brains from 1882 to 1999 before its redevelopment into a leisure complex.
The Old Brewery will offer a first for Cardiff with its interactive sporting games, letting customers become part of Cardiff's greatest sporting moments, testing their kicking skills for a match-winning penalty or an important conversion, while experiencing the anticipation of matchday moments.
Celebrating brewing heritage
Found on the former site of Ballie Ballerson, The Old Brewery will celebrate over 140 years of brewing tradition, taking customers on a journey through Cardiff's past, present, and future, charting the Brains Brewery journey from 1882 to today.
The bar will have Welsh-inspired menus celebrating local suppliers and flavours, beer tastings, and archival photography and memorabilia honouring Cardiff's brewing legacy. It will also have an event and community space available for local organisations to rent.
Excitement from partners
Managing director at Brains Brewery Nick Payne said: "This collaboration feels really special to us at Brains as it feels like we’re coming home. We are very proud of our Cardiff roots, our heritage and how we are still brewing in the city, more than 140 years later."
Steve Lewis of Breaking Brands said: "This site has meant something to Cardiff for decades. Bringing Brains back to the heart of the city just feels right. We believe that Cardiff needs a venue like this, a place with history, energy and purpose, and we are very excited to be the ones bringing it to life."
Bookings for The Old Brewery immersive pods are being taken from Friday, August 21.
