It has been our absolute please to be part of this venture. We very much admire the entrepreneurial resilience and determination to open a restaurant in these times. The Warehouse Taproom team have been brilliant to work with, I often say “it’s a client that makes a job” and these guys have been fully engaged, a great team effort. 

We are proud to have designed and developed this gorgeous site, using WordPress CMS, the site is completely responsive for all devices. Firstly serving takeaway Pizzas, our site will compliment the visitor experience of the new Taproom, Restaurant and Bar opening as soon as lockdown allows.

As well as the website we designed the identity. The contrasting colour palette complemented the bold visual identity to support Warehouse Taproom’s vision and work ethic. The memorable graphic echoes the restaurant structure, a focal point to the local community. The construction of composition enables many possibilities for media applications. Immersive images have been added to produce a warm, fun, inviting yet contemporary setting. 

As a team, United Agency can not wait to visit the Warehouse Taproom, it’s our first destination for a company expedition after lockdown! 

WhataHoot is a multi-award award-winning distillery in the heart of historic King’s Lynn.

Owned and run by husband-and-wife team Jason and Nicky Crown WhataHoot offers a range of locally-inspired gins and vodkas, including Signature Dry Gin, which features the local flavours of Norfolk samphire and lavender. They also produce Tawny Orange Gin, Navy Strength Gin and Signature V Vodka. In addition, they have a tempting selection of gin-related products, including their unique HootFruit (the garnish game changer!); dried orange, lemon, lime, strawberry, raspberry and blueberry.

The WhataHoot Distillery is a 17th-century warehouse, packed full of original features including original beams and exposed brickwork, which has been sympathetically restored and converted to create a home for WhataHoot. Located just off King Street, as well as being the hub of production for WhataHoot products, the distillery houses the ground floor ‘Pantry’ which is open daily for supplies of WhataHoot products and the bespoke Gin School and Spirit Lounge where visitors can experiment and make their own gins. In addition, the distillery is available for private hire – perfect for events of any kind, including meetings and drinks receptions.

As for the name … WhataHoot was inspired by Jason Nicky’s life-long love of the barn owls which inhabit the skies in Norfolk, so they took the owl’s calling card as the calling card for the company.

Think fresh juniper aromas and herbal scents, balanced with a touch of spice, hints of sweetness and fragrant citrus: that’s the essence of Norfolk Gin.

One of the original new breed of artisan gins in the UK, Norfolk Gin was first created in 2014 by Jonathan and Alison Redding in their kitchen, located in the historic city of Norwich.

Using the bathtub method, Norfolk Gin features a unique combination of fragrant botanicals, prepared by hand and slowly steeped in the ‘bathtub’. This gentle method gives Norfolk Gin its irresistible flavour and its subtle straw-like colour. Every batch of Norfolk Gin is still made by hand, and with love, in their Norwich gin studio.

Created to appeal to today’s gin drinkers, but hugely respectful of the past, Norfolk Gin’s herby notes are inspired by the traditional Genever, whilst its gentle sweetness pays homage to gin of the Old Tom era.

Norfolk Gin is juniper-led with floral and citrus notes that work together in perfect harmony; resulting in a gin that is smooth, delicious and very easy-drinking.

As well as tasting delicious, Norfolk Gin looks beautiful in its distinctive handcrafted bottle, made by Wade Ceramics in Stoke on Trent. Rather than being disposable, an empty Norfolk Gin bottle is designed to be treasured or re-used.

Whether in a classic gin and tonic or a super-stylish Singapore Sling, Norfolk Gin is a hand-crafted, superior quality spirit which suits any occasion.

Bullards Spirits is a name that’s been synonymous with the history of Norwich since 1837. Beginning at the Anchor Brewery, Bullards Spirits now focuses on the production of handcrafted, award-winning gin.

Bullards Spirits are leaders in innovation and sustainability in the drinks industry. Their Bottle For Life concept encourages consumers to keep their Bottle For Life and enjoy the refill with a letterbox-friendly, Eco-Refill Pouch.

Their collection hosts four signature gins, with a little something to suit every gin preference from a smooth and sweet drop through to something herbaceous and salty. The Bullards Spirits collection delivers classic gins, carefully crafted with a contemporary twist.

Their London Dry Gin is an easy-drinking classic, distilled uniquely with South American Tonka beans giving notes of vanilla, marzipan & adding viscosity for an extra smooth finish. Awarded World’s Best for a reason!

Bullards Strawberry & Black Pepper Gin is a contemporary fresh and fruity gin infused with 100 kilos of strawberries in each distillation. A faint trickle of black pepper adds warmth for a tasty finish. She’s a ‘grown-ups’ pink gin.

Their Old Tom Gin is a traditional slightly sweet style of gin distilled with pink pepper, vanilla pods and a Bullards Spirits twist with Norfolk honey & fresh mango. Infused with demerara sugar, this gin has a light golden hue. A great sipping gin or perfect for sweet cocktails.

And finally, their newest addition, Coastal Gin. Inspired by the Norfolk coastline, it is delicate and salty with bright citrus flavours. Featuring a host of locally foraged coastal botanicals to bring a sense of the seaside to each glass. Subtly saline on the palate and a faint tickle of wild fennel on the nose.

Bringing the vision for the The Warehouse Taproom Bar & Restaurant to reality was an exciting project for the Harp Design team. Creating an edgy, stylish restaurant and bar aligning with The Warehouse’s brand.

It was important that the interior strived to deliver an amazing customer experience!

Taking inspiration from the spirit of authentic taprooms and a strong passion the Clark family had for re-using furniture from The Warehouse Antiques & Collectables, Harp Design produced an interior design scheme to create a comfortable familiarity that is synonymous with places of revelry and gathering, with a strong sense of character and inclusion where everyone can meet to while away the hours, through the use of weathered, natural aesthetics of reclaimed and repurposed materials, alongside natural textures of brick and steel.

With the prominent eclectic main bar being the focal point on arrival…a designers dream to create something so unique! And WOW does it look good!!

We are extremely proud to have been asked to be part of this amazing project.

Cheryl Sutton & Hayley Roy

We all love that magical smell of coffee as we walk into an establishment; it awakens our senses at the same time as giving us a sense of comfort.

The Warehouse team have approached local coffee suppliers, explaining our incredible new venture and that we will be supporting regional local businesses, suddenly we had coffee sample delivery’s appearing everywhere, who knew that the East of England had some of the best coffee suppliers in the country!

Unlike most teams across the UK not many of the team are caffeine addicts, this includes the Directors! This you would think could be difficult selecting the right coffee for The Warehouse, do not dismay at this my caffeine powered people, I am addicted to coffee and have made it my personal mission to have every member of the team hooked by the end of this year.

I have already put my plan into action by taking the team around the world via coffee beans, all the samples have been tried and tested with the non-coffee drinkers all having a sip or two, as much as some of these samples had amazing aromas and tantalising tastes something was missing until…

A fabulous local company Silver Oaks Coffee located in Ely offered to send someone out to us, to talk through their coffee and taste the different varieties they have to offer (covid-19 guidance adhered to). Tremendous Tom was allocated to be our coffee guru for the afternoon, whose enthusiasm is just infectious so much so that everyone including the ‘I don’t drink coffee’ people had been completely drawn in asking various questions and sharing Tom’s passion for coffee. It is safe to say we all enjoyed the various coffees we tried from nutty notes to fruity flavours.

Some of you may wish to skip this part as it’s the horror of decaffeinated coffee, I did not under any circumstances want to try the decaffeinated coffee past experiences have damaged my opinions, however, seeing as non-coffee drinkers tried all that was on offer it was only fair I put my brave pants on to give it a try….to my total amazement not only did this Silver Oak decaffeinated coffee look and smell like an expresso shot it also tasted like coffee, its safe to say I’m assuming some form of magic was used in the process to get it to taste like that.

Our tastebuds had been thoroughly tickled and delighted, The Warehouse team have decided and there is no doubt that Silver Oak Coffee will be our number one coffee supplier, we are looking forward to working with them and once restrictions allow, we will be visiting their micro-roastery.

We look forward to you popping in for coffee….

Hattie 🙂

Restaurant Manager

Catching Up With Simon Martin Founder of The Real Ale Guide on YouTube

Hello all of you wonderful beer-drinking folk, my name is Simon Martin and I run the popular Youtube channel www.youtube.com/realaleguide

When I started the channel I really wanted to throw myself into the world of Real Ale & Craft Beers and document my journey from the start on camera, what beer way to share this than YouTube. 

WOW! what a journey it’s been, and one, to be honest, I never expected to go so far, in the last 11 years we have sampled and reviewed over 7000 beers from all over the world gaining 13.5 million Youtube views in the process.

We have traveled around Europe brewing beers with breweries and even had a national hit in a supermarket (but we won’t talk about that too much here as Beers Of Europe’s beers are far superior to supermarket beer 😉 

The biggest change came to the channel when the pandemic hit, my first thoughts were “is that it? Where will we get all the beer from now”, but it turned out to be exactly the opposite.  Breweries from all over supported us and the channel and we opened our successful virtual pub ‘The Stoned Crow’!

‘The Stoned Crow’ is open Tuesdays and Friday nights from 7 pm and is sponsored by Beers of Europe.  Once a month in partnership with Beers Of Europe we interview and have a drink along with breweries who are interested to share their beers and ‘beer experiences’  which is a really interesting process, some of the breweries include Anarchy Brew Co, Adnams, Dorking Brewery, Calvors and many more. 

So on my visit to the new Warehouse and Taproom make sure to come and say ‘Hi’ and share a beer with me… and if you can’t make it then tune in for the live show here>>

Cheers, your beer drinking buddy

Simon Martin