The Liverpool bar that people travel up and down the country for

Matt Workman and Rebekah Poole always wanted to run a bar.

Rebekah used to draw up floor plans of ideas for bars as a child, always wanting to run her own. Matt had loved whisky since he started drinking with friends and wanted to share that passion with others.

The couple met through work before going travelling together. When they came back to Liverpool, they decided they were going to go for it.

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That idea became Hop/Scotch Whisky Bar, which specialises in independently-bottled single-cask whiskies. Found on Constance Street, just off London Road, in Liverpool's Fabric District, the bar is a haven for whisky drinkers, with more than 100 varieties of the spirit on offer.

After a soft launch in 2019, the couple opened the bar fully in January 2020. The pandemic arrived shortly after opening, but Matt and Rebekah manoeuvred the lockdowns by selling takeaway drams of whisky and delivering them across Merseyside.

Now, the bar has a healthy collection of regulars and is home to the Liverpool Whisky Club, which was founded last year and has around 130 members. You would struggle to find most of the whiskies on offer at Hop/Scotch anywhere else in the city.

Among them is a whisky bottled forty years ago from a distillery which no longer exists. However, there's also plenty for those who may want something else, including natural wines, cocktails and a wide range of Belgian beer.

The ECHO visited Hop/Scotch to speak to Matt, 32, from Fazakerley and Rebekah, 33, from Runcorn, about their bar and what led them to running it.

Rebekah told the ECHO: "We met in a job and got to like each other. I