Tiny Rebel (Central Newport)

Why we love it?

A pantheon of powerfully-hopped pintage and craftily-bottled beers, Tiny Rebel Newport is every bit as loved in this part of town as its elder redbrick brother is revered down the road in Cardiff.

A stones throw from the meandering Usk, a stroll from the humble - yet hallowed - turf of Rodney Parade and clad in a resolute facade of uncompromising granite, this bar has taken Tiny Rebel's commitment to modern, eccentric, boundary pushing brewing and distilled it into a drinking, eating and all-round-chilling experience the likes of which Newport has never seen.

Set across a roomy ground floor and curiously colourful basement, peppered with arcade-style video game machines and playing the sort of music you'd actually want to spend time listen to (and at a level that won't make your ears weep!), Tiny Rebel manages to blend heritage, ambition and great independent beer with chilled-out ease. What makes it all the more remarkable is that the brewery behind the bar was only conceived in a nearby garage 9 years ago! It's pretty incredible what a few imaginations fired-up by retro computer games, 90's urban culture and a desire to break from the status-quo can do.

If you stop here, expect a selection of outstanding indie beers from a myriad of Craft Breweries, a bounty of slow-cooked temptation (we recommend their down-and-dirty burgers or hot-and-messy pizzas) and a properly tidy time. Tiny Rebel. Big Tings.