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Breweries · Manchester
Meet the breweries pouring across Manchester, from cask champions to new craft names, and the festivals where you can drink them fresh.
The Manchester brewing scene
Manchester 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
The full local listing, not a teaser. Each card links to the brewery and the festivals it pours at.
Festival regular
4TS Brewery
Warrington
4T's Brewery, established in 2010 in Warrington, Cheshire, is a craft brewery known for its extensive range of cask, keg, and canned beers, including the popular Hop Monster series. Operating from John’s Garage, they upgraded to a 2,000L kit in 2018 and added a canning line in 2020, focusing on producing flavor-packed ales and lagers.
Balance Brewing & Blending
Manchester
Balance Brewing & Blending, founded in 2021 by James Horrocks and Will Harris in a railway arch by Manchester Piccadilly, is the city’s first and only brewery dedicated entirely to barrel‑aged, mixed‑culture beers. With a focus on wild fermentation using British‑sourced ingredients, they produce complex yet drinkable sours and saisons—like their flagship Saison des Maison—via traditional methods and months‑long barrel ageing. Their taproom, opened in mid‑2023 in a tasteful space of oak and visible barrels, offers six rotating draughts plus permanent lines, bottles to take away, and guided brewery tours, creating a welcoming community hub centred on exploration of funky, nuanced beer.
Festival regular
Big Trip Brewery
Manchester
Big Trip Brewery is a Manchester-based microbrewery located in Little Ancoats, specializing in modern craft beers. They produce a variety of hazy, tropical, and hoppy IPAs, often focusing on sessionable pale ales, with several vegan-friendly and gluten-free options available.
Festival regular
Blackjack Brewing Co
Manchester
Brewing just outside of the Northern Quarter Manchester - a stone’s throw away from Angel Meadows. Blackjack are all about brewing approachable, balanced beers - beers made to style - brewed with determined detail and steely eyed consistency. Our beers are a reflection of the British Pub culture, within which we grew up, where we discovered the unfussy - oak floored - drinking beers we never forgot about. Now we brew those classics for the modern audience with modern technique & a twist of the future.
Festival regular
Boddingtons Brewery
Manchester
JW Lees, Manchester's oldest brewer, is now the exclusive brewer of Boddingtons Cask Ale which they will brew under licence from AB Inbev.
Bríd’s Cross Brewing
Rochdale
Bríd’s Cross Brewery, located in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, is a small, independent brewery known for crafting distinctive, high-quality beers with a unique local character. Passionately founded and run by a team dedicated to creativity and craftsmanship, Bríd’s Cross combines traditional brewing techniques with innovative flavour profiles to produce memorable ales. The brewery’s commitment to quality and community is reflected in each small batch, offering beer enthusiasts a taste of Greater Manchester’s vibrant brewing culture. Bríd’s Cross Brewery is a local favourite, with beers that embody authenticity, boldness, and a connection to the region.
Bundobust Brewery
Manchester
Is it a brewery inside a Bundobust? Is it a Bundobust inside a brewery? Is it a combination Bundobust Brewery? That’s it, the last one. Est. 2021 on Oxford Street Manchester, Bundobust Brewery makes award-winning beers designed to go with our food, ONLY available in Bundobust venues, as well as a few collaborations with our brewing HEROES.
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Where they're pouring next
Follow a favourite brewery through to its page, then on to the festival you can catch it at.
Good to know
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.
For breweries
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.
