About New Breed

New Breed is a bottle shop and bar on the high street, run by Mikey and Neil. We've been here since December 2020. Lasting that long isn't a given for an independent right now, and we're proud of it. We're also grateful to everyone who has walked through the door and kept us going.

We became friends over three things: good music, great beer and low intervention wine. We both come from music backgrounds, and we've always been drawn to the stuff made by people who care, not the stuff made to fill a shelf or a playlist. That's where our motto comes from: reject the generic. It's how we run the shop, from what's on the stereo to what's in your glass.

That means beer from independent breweries, low intervention wine from small producers, spirits with a story behind them, and low and no-alcohol options worth drinking for their own sake. You won't find mass-produced filler here. There's also a shelf of good snacks to keep you going. There's no kitchen, at least not yet.

Anything you see on the shelf can be opened and drunk here. Take a bottle home or grab a seat and stay a while. Either way, there'll be a good record playing.

If you know exactly what you want, great. If you don't, ask us. Talking about this stuff is the best part of the job.

Reject the generic.

Mikey and Neil