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Is the City of Leicester a dump?

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On 24/04/2018 at 20:48, m4DD0gg said:

Not really they just remember when Leicester was a great night out and not full of smack heads, illegal immigrants and rampaging african gangs.

Instead we just had skinheads and gangs such as the ‘Crazy Gang’? Funny really cos I have bumped into anything you described but my dad tells me plenty of occasions where gangs and skinheads were smashing up pubs. 

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36 minutes ago, boots60 said:

More polluted than Middlesbrough!!

Too many underused bus lanes and traffic lights.

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Everards reveals exciting plans for new site, including BIG beer hall and distilling own spirits

The plans are part of the company's £20 million-plus investment at its planned Everards Meadows site

 

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Tom Pegden

05:00, 11 MAY 2018

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Everards has announced plans to build a 200-plus capacity beer hall and start distilling its own gins, vodkas, rums and Japanese-style sakes.

The family brewing business wants to create a range of spirits for its 172 pubs and partners such as the Leicester Tigers and Riders and Curve Theatre alongside its Tiger, Beacon Hill and Old Original beers.

Managing director Stephen Gould said the spirits will be inspired by the county with names and branding reflecting their Leicestershire heritage.

As part of a trend for craft distilleries, they will follow in the footsteps of spirits manufacturers such as Burleighs Gin, in Nanpantan, Two Birds, in Harborough, and Sloeberry Spirits in Cold Overton, near Melton.

Everards wants to install a copper still in a new brewery planned as part of a £20 million-plus investment at its planned Everards Meadows site, next to the police headquarters in Enderby.

Artists impression of the new Everards beer hall (Image: Everards Brewery)

The business has also revealed plans for a 200-plus capacity beer hall linked to the brewery, hosting tasting sessions, brewery tours, food and drink festivals and other events, helping establish Everards Meadows as a new county tourist destination.

It is hoped the brewery, beer hall and a new Everards head office will be ready by November 2019.

'We'll be producing different styles of beer, along with our traditional drinks'

Mr Gould said: “We will be working with our partners between now and the end of 2019 to create a range of Everards spirits produced by us using, I hope, botanicals we have harvested in Everards Meadows.

“Because the new brewery will be more agile than the one we had at Castle Acres I suspect we will be producing different styles and varieties of beers – alongside our main traditional styles – in addition to lots of different styles and varieties of spirits.

 

Everards managing director Stephen Gould

“We are still looking into distilling from our own beer – some distillers buy in the raw spirit and some produce from beer mash so there will be more news on that to follow.”

He said they would be investing £5.4 million in new brewing and distillation equipment supplied by industry leader Briggs of Burton.

What else are Everards building?

Formal construction work on a 70 acre public park at Everards Meadows with almost 2 miles of cycling and footpaths, mooring points on the Grand Union Canal and a new bridge over the Soar got underway on Tuesday, May 8.

A cycle centre - run by Rutland Cycles where bikes can be bought and rented - and a cafe will open next May.

Mr Gould felt it was an inspired decision to replace earlier pub plans with the 5,000 sq ft beer hall idea, which he said would be open seven days a week.

Everards Brewery artists impression

Mr Gould said: “We were inspired to have a beer hall by the type of things they have in America and Australia where they have a lot of bars attached to breweries.

“We think it will be a fabulous, vibrant space joined to the brewery rather than separate from it.

“People will be able to have a pint looking directly at the brewery in a space that is very much open-plan, and managed by Everards.

“It has necessitated a refreshed planning application though, and we have shared the vision with Blaby District Council and they have been hugely supportive.”

Some £2.4 million was spent last year laying the groundwork for Everards Meadows, with access points, drains, water and utilities already in place.

The £31 million turnover business sold its old site at Castle Acres for an undisclosed amount last year to the national land owner the Crown Estate, which is extending Fosse Park with new stores including a flagship Next shop, Debenhams and TK Maxx.

The old brewery building has already been demolished.

Where the beers are being brewed now

Everards beers are being brewed by Robinsons of Stockport and Joule’s of Market Drayton until the new brewery and headquarters are up and running.

In the meantime the Everards management team are working from a purpose-built £4.2 million brewery yard and warehouse in Optimus Point, Glenfield.

Mr Gould said despite the upheaval of the move, the pub estate had performed well with like-for-like turnover up 2.2 per cent in the year to September 30, and up another 1.9 per cent in the last six months.

 

David Middlemiss, managing director of Rutland Cycling said they were excited to be partners in the Everards Meadows plans.

He said: “At Everards Meadows we’ll be opening our 13th store and it’s our most exciting project to date.

“This is an opportunity to bring cycle hire and sales to Leicestershire like we have been able to do in Rutland and other locations across the East Midlands.

“Leicester and Leicestershire doesn’t have an offer like this, there are lots of safe, interesting and traffic free paths for people of all ages and ability to cycle on.

“We feel privileged to be working with Everards, a regional, family business like ours.”

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21 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Sweet. Hope it works out.

Shame it's not nearer to the KP.

Perhaps our owners have plans for a larger beer hall next to the expanded stadium.

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I was in town on Saturday and went to that steam pub and distillery, but market at is a car crash, look down one aisle and you have a good couple of pubs but opposite it likes like a street in cov with boarded up shops and charity shops.

 

It was so poor, I was sitting outside and had to go into the pub the view was so embarrassing.

 

What a shame

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8 hours ago, davieG said:

Everards reveals exciting plans for new site, including BIG beer hall and distilling own spirits

The plans are part of the company's £20 million-plus investment at its planned Everards Meadows site

I'm excited for this, hopefully they start brewing a pilsner (or any lager really) but there isn't any mention of it.

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On 28/04/2018 at 08:32, Cardiff_Fox said:

Instead we just had skinheads and gangs such as the ‘Crazy Gang’? Funny really cos I have bumped into anything you described but my dad tells me plenty of occasions where gangs and skinheads were smashing up pubs. 

Only because, the Braunstone and New Parks lads, went out of town for a country pub brawl.

 

Even on inglorious Dirty Duck nights,or Whitehorse in Nottingham frollics,Leicester/Nottingham

didnt have that many downtown small time drunken raucousness, or riots quantity wasnt in,

but nowthen!! good ol' fashioned quality unplanned rumble.

 

The crazy gang,were pussycats,and kept away from the hardened groups,there speciality,

shit Stirring and being obnoxious towards teenage girls and young innocent lads.

They kept away or kept quiet around renowned  hard taverns, or estate-factions town Pubs.

Like I mentioned obnoxious and plastic hard.

 

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3 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Not a bad idea. Cue all the hilariously witty posts from the usual suspects about people taking one look up Granby Street and heading back inside etc etc...

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-station-could-spun-around-1604926#ICID=sharebar_twitter

Sounds like a pipe dream or at least 20year+ to come to anything.

 

Haven't Network Rail recently spent millions tarting up the front?

 

Do we really need shops there. Surely making Granby St more attractive with be money better spent?

 

Sadly the big mistake was not taking the inner ring round around the back of the station via Conduit St as originally planned. I seem to remember the Merc campaigning rigorously against the idea.

Imagine how it could look now with out that road there.

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One of Leicester's nicest bit of green space, Fosse road rec has been annexed by the travelling community. Not looking good. The Napier will probably go up this weekend. End of the world etc. etc.

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