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Breweries across the UK & Ireland
Find the breweries behind your favourite pints, then follow them to the festivals where you can drink them fresh.
1605 breweries
9 regions
Linked to 208 festivals
Featured breweries
Breweries worth seeking out
Breweries making a name for themselves right now. Every featured card carries a badge that tells you why it is here.
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Festival regular
Scarborough
North Riding Brewery, established in 2015, is a Yorkshire-based brewery known for crafting modern ales with traditional methods. Their offerings include three core beers available year-round and a US range released every four weeks. Notable brews feature the 'Cashmere' US pale ale, single-hopped with Cashmere hops for lemon, peach, and tangerine notes; the 'Enigma' ale, utilizing an Australian hop variety imparting red fruit flavors and a pinot gris-like finish; the 'Marzipan Mild,' a dark mild infused with natural marzipan flavoring; and a robust porter made with six different malts, offering hints of chocolate. The brewery distributes cask and bottled beers across the Midlands and North of England, catering to trade customers and providing information on local distributors.
Festival regular
Sheffield
Stancill Brewery is an independent microbrewery based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, renowned for producing award-winning real ales and craft beers.
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345 breweries
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South East England
303 breweries
Canterbury
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Ireland
132 breweries
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London
111 breweries
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Midlands
214 breweries
Birmingham
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Scotland
103 breweries
Edinburgh
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South West England
199 breweries
Bath
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Bristol
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East Anglia
101 breweries
Norwich
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Cambridge
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Wales
76 breweries
Cardiff
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Newport
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Where they're pouring next
Breweries at upcoming festivals
Confirmed for festivals over the coming weeks. Follow one through to its page, then on to the festival.
Abbeydale Brewery
Hoptons Beer Festival ·
Thu 24 Sep
Ardgour Ales
Havelock Beer & Cider Festival ·
Thu 24 Sep
Azvex Brewing Company
Hoptons Beer Festival ·
Thu 24 Sep
Blue Monkey Brewery
Havelock Beer & Cider Festival ·
Thu 24 Sep
Bowland Brewery
Hoptons Beer Festival ·
Thu 24 Sep
Bowness Bay Brewing
Hoptons Beer Festival ·
Thu 24 Sep
Beer Fest Buddy, by the numbers
- Breweries listed
- 1605 Breweries listed
- Regions
- 9 Regions across the UK & Ireland
- Festivals they pour at
- 208 Festivals they pour at
- New breweries this month
- 42 New breweries this month
A home for every brewery in the country
Behind every great beer festival is a roll call of breweries. The cask veterans, the railway-arch upstarts, the farmhouse tinkerers and the cult haze-chasers. Beer Fest Buddy lists them all in one place, from long-standing Yorkshire cask champions to brand-new microbreweries pouring their first batch this season.
Browse by region to see who brews near you, or search by name if you already have a favourite. Each brewery links straight to the festivals where you can find their bar, so a name you like becomes a weekend in the diary.
Real ale, craft and everything in the glass
Whether you drink traditional cask bitter, hop-saturated IPA, crisp lager or a barrel-aged stout, the breweries here cover the full range of British and Irish beer. We keep the listings honest and up to date, adding new breweries by hand as they join festivals across the UK and Ireland.
This is a guide first and a directory second. The breweries that earn a place in our featured row do so through real activity. Appearing at festivals, drawing a crowd, or joining the platform, and anything paid is always labelled plainly.
Good to know
Breweries, answered
Search by brewery name or town in the box at the top of this page, or browse by region just below the featured breweries. Each region opens the local listing so you can see who brews where, then follow any brewery through to the festivals they are pouring at.
Festivals are the heart of Beer Fest Buddy, and breweries are who make them worth going to. Every brewery page links to the festivals it attends, and every festival lists the breweries pouring. Start with a brewery you love and we will show you where to drink it next.
A brewery page carries the basics. Location, the beer styles they are known for, links to their own site and socials, plus the upcoming festivals where you can find their bar. Where a brewery has added them, you will also see a banner, logo and a short story.
Many breweries are already listed through the festivals they attend. If yours is not here, or you want to manage how it looks, you can list a new brewery or claim an existing one in a couple of minutes. It is free to be listed.
For breweries
Run a brewery? List it or claim your page
Add your brewery, upload a banner and logo, and link it to the festivals you pour at. It is free to be listed, and claiming an existing page takes a couple of minutes.