{"id":358131,"date":"2026-07-18T08:29:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/worcesters-belgian-outpost-craig-finn-on-building-tripelb\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:29:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:29:33","slug":"worcesters-belgian-outpost-craig-finn-on-building-tripelb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=358131","title":{"rendered":"Worcester&#8217;s Belgian outpost: Craig Finn on building TripelB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Most British towns get one Belgian beer, maybe two, lined up behind a row of cask handles like exotic-looking strangers nobody quite knows what to do with. Worcester got something else entirely. Tucked down Copenhagen Street, <strong>TripelB<\/strong> has been pouring more than a hundred Belgian beers \u2014 tripels, dubbels, Trappist and Abbey ales, lambics, fruit beers \u2014 since it opened in September 2019, plus the frites, croque-monsieurs, charcuterie and waffles to do them justice. It famously does <em>not<\/em> sell real ale, and that\u2019s the point: this is a Belgian specialist, not a pub with a Belgian shelf.<\/p>\n<p>TripelB is also special to our hearts as a <a href=\"https:\/\/belgiumbeerweek.be\/\">Belgium Beer Week<\/a> participant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">The man behind it is <strong>Craig Finn<\/strong>, joint proprietor and operational manager \u2014 a Worcester local who spent three decades in project management before deciding that what the city really needed was somewhere you could drink a properly poured Belgian beer. (For a while TripelB was, by some counts, only the fourth place in the UK to have Duvel on tap.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">We sat down with Craig for a long conversation about how a former project manager ends up running one of the more uncompromising Belgian beer caf\u00e9s in the UK, what it takes to keep a 100-strong Belgian list moving in a regional city, and why he refuses to put a hand pump on the bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v6.0&#038;appId=324431528348255&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most British towns get one Belgian beer, maybe two, lined up behind a row of cask handles like exotic-looking strangers nobody quite knows what to do with. 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