Breweries · Liverpool

Breweries in Liverpool

Meet the breweries pouring across Liverpool, from cask champions to new craft names, and the festivals where you can drink them fresh.

In Liverpool
20 breweries
They pour at
3 festivals
Nearby
5 cities

The Liverpool brewing scene

Local breweries across Liverpool

Liverpool is home to a growing roll call of breweries, from long-standing cask producers to new microbreweries pouring their first batches. Browse the full local directory below, then follow any brewery through to the festivals where you can find their bar.

The directory

Every brewery in Liverpool

The full local listing, not a teaser. Each card links to the brewery and the festivals it pours at.

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Azvex Brewing Company

Liverpool

Azvex Brewing Company is a top-rated craft brewery based in Liverpool, specializing in a diverse range of beers including IPAs, fruited sours, imperial stouts, and lagers. Their on-site taproom offers 12 taps for draft selections and a fridge stocked with cans available for both on-site enjoyment and takeaway. The taproom operates Thursday and Friday from 4 PM to 10 PM, Saturday from 12 PM to 10 PM, and Sunday from 2 PM to 8 PM. For those unable to visit in person, Azvex provides an online shop where beers are stored in a cold room and shipped directly via Parcelforce, with free delivery on orders of 10 or more cans within certain zones. Additionally, the brewery hosts tours and tasting sessions, which can be booked through their website.

Festival regular

Black Lodge Brewing

Liverpool

Black Lodge Brewing is an independent, creatively driven craft brewery founded around 2015–2018 in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle, now operating a 12-barrel brewery and taproom at Kings Dock Street with a spacious beer garden and on-site food trader Fatback Burgers. They specialise in adventurous pale ales, IPAs, sours and lagers—like Hundred Dollar Volvo, Me & the Devil, and kettle-soured Berliner Weisse—with bold, experimental flavours and single-hop expressions that frequently rotate. In March 2024, the brand expanded to West Kirby with a second taproom offering craft beer, frozen margaritas, ice-cream cocktails and events in a lively, pet‑friendly setting. Black Lodge also hosts regular tasting experiences, live sport, festivals (including the annual Liverpool Craft Beer Expo), and maintains a strong community presence praised by locals on Reddit as one of the best taprooms in the city region.

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Botelai

Bootle

A brewery founded in 2024 by three friends with a shared passion for quality beer. We only ever use current year hops for the freshest beers possible.

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Colbier Beer Co

Bootle

Rooted in Liverpool, Colbier crafts beer that hits all the right notes, harmonising our passion for continental and traditional brews with a love of great music. Equalising balance, simplicity, and quality, we are producing the very styles that ignited our brewing journey. Experimenting on our pilot kit and fine-tuning core recipes on our larger 20HL kit, to consistently deliver PROPER SOUND BEERS from the beat of Liverpool.

Facer's Brewery

Flint

At Facer's Brewery, we don’t just brew beer. Since opening our doors in 2003, we’ve been dedicated to putting our minds and hearts into the process, using the finest ingredients and employing state of the art techniques. The result is a selection of enjoyable, elegant and authentic real ales.

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Higsons

Liverpool

Higson's Brewery was a historic Liverpool institution founded in 1780, renowned for its cask bitters and "Famous Old Higsonians" branding, which operated for over 200 years until its 1990 closure by Whitbread. The brand was revived in 2017 and is now produced by Love Lane Brewing

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Neptune Brewery

Bootle

Neptune Brewery, established in 2015, is a Liverpool-based craft brewery known for producing modern beers inspired by traditional methods. Their offerings include a variety of styles, such as 'Gorgon,' a 7.0% ABV Belgian Dubbel noted for its rich malt profile with hints of ripe raisins, dark plums, and subtle clove spice. Beer enthusiasts can purchase their products directly through the brewery's online store, which features options like single cans, curated six-packs, mix packs, and 5-litre mini casks ideal for home enjoyment. Additionally, Neptune operates the Neptune Beerhouse, a community-focused taproom offering a selection of four cask and eight keg taps, complemented by local wines, ciders, and spirits.

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Breweries in Liverpool, answered

Use the browse-by-city block to jump to a local area, or scroll the full directory and check the location under each brewery name. Every brewery links through to its own page with a map and the festivals it pours at.

Many do. Where a brewery runs its own tap or an online shop you will find the link on its page. We do not sell beer ourselves, we point you to the brewery.

Closely. The breweries in this directory pour at the region's festivals through the year. Each brewery page lists its upcoming appearances, so a brewery you like is an easy route into a weekend out.

Many breweries are already listed through the festivals they attend. If yours is missing, 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.

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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.