Then running a garden centre in Widnes, the 26-year-old would stop at the pub on Prescot's High Street as he made his way home to Huyton. The Bard made Patrick fall in love with micropubs and inspired him to swap selling top soil for cask ale.
He said: "This is where it all started. My first business venture was a garden centre in Widnes and I used to make my way home coming through this way. The Shakespeare-inspired pub first opened in February 2018. It coincided with the start of construction of the Shakespeare North Playhouse, now found on Prospero Place.
"We're getting people in before the theatre. We're going to try to work as closely with that as possible. "It's a home away from home for any of our customers coming. There's a group of lads who drink in all three sites - whether that's town or Cask on Queens Drive, last night they were here."In Prescot there's the hustle and bustle going for you. We've got a new development going on opposite us, a new restaurant going in.