“When I started, it was me as a homebrewer, then with the guys at Duke’s helped me bottle. Then the first guy who came in was a homebrewer too, and from that we are now at a point where we are bringing in someone experienced in say, wood, for example or someone who is very experienced in sales within the craft beer market. How can we do that and how can we drive quality as there aren’t many people out there so we need people with very specific skills.

“Two words I always talk about are culture and community, big things that drive us. People are everything and out team, is do or die by. We still have a solid crew that have been here for a while. How can we look after them and after the hard times we’ve been through, how can you look after them, as much as we can. It’s got to be more than a work environment.”

While companies such as BrewDog continue to expand its bars and bottleshop concepts on an international scale, Plant has also been keen to broaden the Duke’s Brew & Que format, something he was keen on pursuing only weeks after opening the original restaurant several years ago.

He says: “We have looked but the places we’ve seen haven’t quite been right. The space needs to be right and conducive to what we want to achieve there. So looking at the smoking procedure ,with the time that takes.

“And especially now, wow, I wish we found one two and a half years ago with the premiums on property at the level they are now!

“So maybe then it’s going to be a case of looking at working with good landlords, opening a big Duke’s with a sizeable bar space and bigger restaurant. Taking people through the process, a little brew-kit on site and educate them, while working with locals in the process. That’s something I’d love to do at some point. I spent a lot of time in the US so whenever I went out with the service was banging and for Duke’s, we have that too.

“Considered hospitality in something of a rough and ready setting requires space, wages, and somewhere that supports your business. We need to ensure that we can offer, and hit all of those targets because if we’re going to go out and bring something like Duke’s to more people, it needs to be at the quality we, and they, expect!”

While Beavertown, like many others, its forging its own path, another respected London brewery, Meantime, recently confirmed that it had been acquired by multinational giant SABMiller.