VARSITY – WILLS BAR – BREWDOG, 8 FRIAR LANE

These old derelict offices were transformed in 1997 by Banks Brewery when they purchased the property obtained a licence and opened it as the Varsity.

Put up for sale in 2013 and became Wills Bar in October that year.

In 2015, saw a bar called Brewdog, the Punky Aberdonian  Craft beer company (Phil Johnson) bring their brand to Leicester and expand their chain of pubs to twenty, opened in 5th of May 2015.

The interiors are usually ‘basic industrial’ hence its ‘punky’ image, popular with students serving weird and wonderful named beers.

Brewdog unexpectedly closed, one of four in the chain announced by owner James Watt in 2023

1 Comment

  1. Barry
    BrewDog are based in the general area of Aberdeen so “Punky Aberdonian Craft beer company”
    Cheers
    Phil

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