NEWPORT’S Tiny Rebel brewery is looking to relocate from its headquarters in Maesglas and hopes to find a new bespoke site in the city by the beginning of next year.

The award-winning brewery, which was launched in 2012 by brothers-in-law Bradley Cummings and Gareth Williams, has grown from producing 80,000 litres of beer in its first year to more than 480,000 litres in 2015. It exports its products to nine different countries, including Italy and Japan.

Based at the Maesglas industrial estate, the brewery’s turnover has increased from £140,000 to £1.2 million since setting up.

This progress in tough economic times has not gone unnoticed and first minister Carwyn Jones paid tribute to the brewery's "enormous success" when he visited the site last month.

The Tiny Rebel team are now looking for a new site to take their brand to the next level, with plans to build a shop, deli and venue where charity events and even festivals could be held in.

It would also be a more carbon efficient and sustainable operation, with the brewery hoping to grow its own hops and even have pigs on site.

The proposed development would be built from scratch, with company directors already having a Plan A, B, C and D in place after beginning their search around nine months ago.

Bradley Cummings, director of Tiny Rebel, said: “We’re quite restricted with what we can do here, we’re bursting at the seams.

“We want to have a site finalised by early next year. We’re desperately looking for somewhere in Newport.

“Nothing is set in stone yet, it’s something we are still trying to nail down.

“We don’t want to move somewhere else but if we can’t find a site here in Newport, it might force our hand a little bit.

“Hopefully, we won’t have to move somewhere else. That’s our aim and our goal.”

Tiny Rebel is due to open its first bar in the city next month, creating 20 jobs in the process.