Left Handed Giant

Left Handed Giant is a Bristol-based brewing company with six premises across the city. They brew a variety of styles from two brewery sites in Bristol. The company began in 2014 when Rich Poole handed beer to Bruce Gray and Jack Granger at Small Bar, leading to a brewing journey that started on a 200L kit and developed into a cuckoo brewery operation. Their own physical brewery operation began in 2017, and they raised over £1m from the local community via Crowdcube to build a brewpub overlooking the floating harbour, which opened in 2019. They now operate over 2 brewing sites, producing around 7000 hL of beer annually. The company is proudly a Founder, Employee and Community owned business with 1500 shareholders, more than 80% having BS postcodes.

Left Handed Giant began in 2014 when Rich Poole walked into Small Bar, Bristol, and handed some beer over to Bruce Gray and Jack Granger. This started a brewing journey on a 200L kit through the back of that bar, before developing into a cuckoo brewery operation known as Left Handed Giant. Their own physical brewery operation began in 2017, before raising more than £1m from the local community via Crowdcube to build a brewpub overlooking the floating harbour in the centre of Bristol, which opened in 2019. They now operate over 2 brewing sites, producing around 7000 hL of beer annually.

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