Place Question to Locals - Kernel Brewery Tap

Aimed at you Bermondsey regulars. Is the Kernel Brewery Tap still operating on a Saturday?

Originally posted by imdownthepub
Aimed at you Bermondsey regulars. Is the Kernel Brewery Tap still operating on a Saturday?

Open for bottle purchases only

Cheers. I have closed it on here as a Brewery tap then. We may need a new ’place’ if we want to add it just as a bottle shop.

Could we just have it as open for bottles only? I don’t see the point of adding a new place.

There is a note in the brewery’s place entry that notes they now only offer bottles for take-away; I believe that is sufficient enough to reflect the change. The brewery has never ’closed’. They have modified their offering, but that doesn’t mean we should create a new place for them. The entry is just called Kernel Brewery, and is classified as such.

If users want to update their reviews of the place, then that would be helpful. But I don’t think we should create a new entry, and we definitely should not have the brewery showing as closed given that it has never actually closed.

Yeah, the way breweries are handled as places is a bit confusing. Breweries only get added as places if there are some visitor facilities. It’s arguable that, if a brewery has visitor facilities that fall into more than one category, they should be listed separately. Especially as you can’t assign a place to multipe categories. If Kernel weren’t even selling bottles now you’d have to "close" it a a place listing. Perhaps some different terminology is required? "Out Of Business" is not really appropriate.

I agree, but this would appear in the top 10 of English places and people going on the basis of that would then only find a brewery that sells bottles. All the ratings are for somewhere that you could go in and sit a nd drink and not many will change their ratings accordingly. We will be recommending on false pretences.

Yes, I see your point. I’d be tempted to have two listings.

I’m increasingly coming to the view that "Brewery" is not a very useful category for places. In fact, when you add a place, the category is "Brewery/Taproom" but it just displays as "Brewery" on the place page subsequently. What do we even mean by "Brewery/Taproom"? And or either?

Why would we want a brewery listed as a place unless there is a taproom and/or beer to go sales? Maybe if they do tours on a regular and relatively easily accessible basis?