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Derbyshire Times

Derbyshire Times visited The Neptune pub in Chesterfield in our latest Love your Local feature

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00:00 [Music]

00:07 Pubs have been a cornerstone of our local communities for centuries,

00:11 offering a place for people to meet together and socialise,

00:14 as well as providing thousands of jobs and a cornerstone of the local economy.

00:18 Here we go behind the bar to meet the people who run our pubs

00:21 and say why it's important for you to love your local.

00:24 I'm at the Neptune Pub in Chesterfield and can you just introduce yourselves?

00:29 Yeah, my name's Jason, I'm the landlord and my wife.

00:32 And I'm Sally.

00:33 We've had the Neptune now for just over a year.

00:36 We took over June 2022.

00:39 We've had some major renovations throughout the property,

00:42 but throughout the pub.

00:44 We've had a full change of beers, cask, craft beers.

00:50 We've done a really nice beer garden for you to come and enjoy in the summer.

00:55 We've changed quite a lot of things as the decor.

00:58 We've gone very nautical.

01:00 The pub was built in 1860.

01:02 It was owned by a captain of Merchant Navy.

01:05 First of all, when he was out on his travels, it was set up as an abbedassery.

01:09 Then it was a post office.

01:11 At some stage it was a morgue.

01:13 And then he found the best thing to do was to make it into a pub.

01:16 So, late on in the 1800s, he turned it into a pub and called it the Neptune.

01:21 As a sea fairy, it was away from home so they had people to run it.

01:24 But at times, it was, like I say, a morgue.

01:26 One of the rooms would be a morgue. People would be having a drink.

01:29 So, it's got a very ghostly atmosphere.

01:31 We've tried to put it back to more of a nautical feel.

01:34 So, we've gone very much with captains' helmets,

01:37 all the nautical, the ships, the octopuses, all around.

01:42 Yeah, so we've had a bit of a change.

01:44 We do a lot of music, and I'll let Sally talk about the music.

01:47 So, we have a lot of live music, some really good acts,

01:51 mainly Saturday evenings, but we do have some occasionally on a Friday.

01:56 And then we have different hosts to host open mic,

02:00 which is every Sunday from 4.30 till about 9 o'clock, which goes really well.

02:06 There's lots of people that just come down, just get up.

02:10 We have everything set up already.

02:13 The PA system and the drums are already set up,

02:17 and all the amps for everyone just to come and plug and play.

02:21 So, that always goes down really well.

02:24 Yeah, everybody who comes down and participates gets a free drink,

02:27 keeps all the customers happy.

02:29 Everybody has a really, really good time on a Sunday.

02:32 We've also got music that we play outside.

02:34 So, we've just been recently having discussions with the council.

02:37 So, we're allowed to play music on a handful of occasions outside.

02:41 Yeah, good for the surrounding areas.

02:43 We've put a lot of business into the surrounding areas as well.

02:46 So, yeah, one of the things we do is we do pop-up kitchens.

02:50 So, we've been celebrating some of the local chefs,

02:53 going from Italian range food to steaks, Philly steaks.

02:57 Lots of street food.

02:58 Yeah, pretty much we're sort of championing the street food.

03:01 We encourage people to come on board.

03:04 We've got a kitchen upstairs.

03:06 A lot of them tend to want to go outside and bring their own equipment

03:09 and champion what their idea is, their food.

03:12 And that's been going really, really well.

03:14 We've got an event coming up this week, on a two-weekly, this Thursday.

03:19 So, yeah, it's got...

03:21 We probably do that once a month, I think.

03:23 Yeah, once a month.

03:24 Which is going really well at the moment.

03:26 We've done it on a Saturday.

03:29 We've done it outside in the summer.

03:32 But we've also got it this Thursday.

03:34 We're also going to do £2.50 Wednesdays, which start next week as well,

03:42 for a lot of the locals, and just to bring some passing trade in, really.

03:46 Yeah, so that's the thing we do.

03:48 So the Cask Ale, we always do a manager's special.

03:51 And we're looking to do this on a Wednesday night, the £2.50 for a cask.

03:54 So it's giving a bit of back to the community,

03:57 with the cost of living crisis at the moment.

03:59 So people can come in and choose what beers they want.

04:01 They can have a pint at £2.50.

04:02 They can come in with their friends, drink a pint or something.

04:05 That is at the normal price.

04:07 But we still, compared to the price,

04:09 we have local beers from Moonshine up to Jaipur, all really well priced.

04:14 So yeah, come down and have a drink.

04:16 What is the most popular drink that you sell at the moment?

04:19 So we--

04:20 Castile.

04:21 Castile always goes down really well.

04:22 Yeah, we have a range.

04:23 The Castile, which is a Belgian beer, a Belgian cherry beer.

04:26 That's brewed in Belgium, obviously.

04:28 And that sells really well.

04:29 It tends to sell more with the women, because it's got a sweeter taste.

04:33 So the women tend to like it on a Saturday and Sunday.

04:37 But that's not exclusive to women.

04:38 We do see the guys drinking it as well.

04:41 Moonshine, which is brewed in Sheffield Abbedale breweries,

04:44 that sells very, very well.

04:46 And we always have a number of formage products on,

04:49 which is brewed just like that.

04:50 Jaipur.

04:51 Jaipur, Twin Peaks at the moment.

04:54 They're brewed just literally at Bakewell.

04:56 They sell very well.

04:57 Guinness.

04:58 Yeah, we have a lot of really good sellers, to be honest.

05:00 There's a lot of good sellers.

05:01 Green Mountain.

05:02 We have a number of still ciders.

05:04 So we have four still ciders.

05:06 And they're brewed locally, mostly locally.

05:11 Yeah, we have Belgian beers.

05:12 We've got craft beers.

05:13 We've really been pushing the craft beers lately.

05:16 We have a chocolate beer on at the moment, which is 13%.

05:19 So that's selling fantastically well.

05:22 We only sell it in a third of a pint, because it's very strong.

05:24 Yeah, so staff-wise, we have nine in total.

05:29 There's myself, Sally, and then our three daughters.

05:33 They work for us.

05:34 And my dad actually helps out as well.

05:36 So my dad does quite a lot of the work on the sort of renovation of the place.

05:41 Maintenance.

05:42 Maintenance, the upkeep, the cleaning.

05:43 Steve as well.

05:44 Yeah, and we have a friend as well.

05:45 He comes and helps out.

05:46 We have a lot of people who come who are local people that want to help us on the street.

05:50 So that's always good.

05:51 Yeah, really good team.

05:52 Our team's fantastic.

05:53 We couldn't do it without them.

05:55 They really do put a shift in every time.

05:57 They're really pleasant with customers.

06:00 Yeah, they're really good.

06:01 Any up-and-coming events that you want to promote?

06:03 We're moving all the way through to November and December.

06:06 And then we've got bookings now all the way to Christmas and New Year and into next year as well.

06:11 So, yeah, just for the best thing to do, look on our website for any up-and-coming gigs, any up-and-coming events.

06:17 We always push it out on Facebook, so you can have a look at it on there as well.

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Love your local - The Neptune Chesterfield

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