A Tenby brewery has made sure that pub-goers at a nearby resort will be able to ‘drink like a fish’ this weekend by delivering its supplies by sea!

Tenby Harbwr brewery showed that any-fin is possible with the help of the town’s lifeboat navigator to get their barrels of beer delivered on time after locals in Amroth complained that the road closure in place this week at the village due to excavation work being carried out by Pembrokeshire County Council has ‘caused chaos’ for businesses, residents and visitors alike.

However, with some assistance from Robert John and the Mary Gabriel - a former lifeboat which will soon be specialising in trips around the resort’s picturesque bay - the microbrewery’s stock of barrels set off from the Mayor’s lifeboat slip at Tenby harbour yesterday morning to make sure that the beer flows fully this weekend for thirsty punters visiting Amroth’s New Inn, The Smugglers Bar and Grill, and the Amroth Arms.

Many of the Harbwr Brewery’s range of craft beers take their names from iconic and much loved boats of Tenby past. The MV Enterprise was a large 100 seat passenger boat, and the first of her kind in the resort’s harbour; the North Star - a boat that ran mackerel fishing trips in the summer and turned to trawling for the winter months; the Caldey Lollipop a boat from the 1950s that provided a ferry service to the island; and the RFA Sir Galahad, which was Tenby’s RNLI Tyne class Lifeboat from 1986 to 2006.

Aptly named Doug Waters of the Harbwr Brewery joked that he would ensure that the beer wouldn’t be watered down when it arrived at its destination, but couldn’t guarantee that a few verses of ‘What shall we do with a drunken sailor’ wouldn’t be sung along the way!

FOOTNOTE: A spokesperson for Pembrokeshire County Council has said that the road closure in Amroth has been necessary to enable excavation works to be carried out in the carriageway to establish the cause and undertake repair to a depression within the road which has gradually deteriorated over recent months.

“The depth of the excavation and the need to maintain a safe working zone meant that there was insufficient road width remaining to maintain traffic flow, therefore a five-day road closure was required which is due to finish this Friday (today),” they explained.