Breweries around Merseyside and Cheshire

Brewing continues several days a week on the 12-barrel kit. A large core range of beers is regularly produced with many one-off specials. The beers can be found in the Tavern, Church Street. The tapro... View

Ad Hop started life in 2014 at the Clove Hitch pub, moving a couple of times before ending up in much larger premises in 2017 where a 5.5-barrel plant was added to its existing 2.5-barrel one. Brewing... View

Azvex Brewing Co is a Liverpool-based brewery producing modern progressive beer. No real ale. View

Beartown began brewing in 1994 and uses a 25-barrel plant. The brewery underwent a significant refurbishment in 2022. It supplies more than 250 outlets. View

Brewing commenced using a 30-litre kitchen plant. In 2020 the brewery upscaled and relocated to eco-friendly converted farm builldings. Speciality fruit or dry-hopped beers are available at various ti... View

A small half-barrel plant set up in 2019 at the rear of the Beer Station micropub, opposite Freshfield station. The beers are railway-themed and generally only available in the Beer Station, but are o... View

Big Bog started life in Waunfawr, Wales in 2011, sharing its site with the Snowdonia Parc brewpub. Due to growth and expansion in 2016, the brewery moved to its present location in Speke, Liverpool, i... View

Big Hand began brewing in 2013 and continues to operate from its 10-barrel plant on the outskirts of Wrexham, despite the sad loss of brewery founder Dave Shaw in 2022. It offers a broad-ranging selec... View

Brewery producing experimental and speciality beers that can be sampled in its own taproom. Moved to current brewery in 2019 with ex-Mad Hatter brewery kit. Frequently brews specials and collaboration... View

Bollington began brewing in 2008 with the Vale Inn, Bollington, as the brewery tap. The Park Tavern, and the Fountain, both in Macclesfield, and the Cask Tavern, Poynton, are also owned, and in 2023 t... View

Part of the national Brewhouse & Kitchen family, this brewpub is situated in a splendid building previously owned by JD Wetherspoon. As with all Brewhouse & Kitchen establishments it offers brewery ex... View

Neil Young began brewing in 2006 using a 10-barrel plant in the heart of the Wirral countryside. Wirral's first brewery since the closure of the Birkenhead Brewery in the late 1960s. Since Neil passed... View

Brewing starting in 2017 at this nanobrewery, which predominately produces bottle-conditioned beers. View

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Thomas Hardy's only brewery was acquired by Molson Coors in 2015. Currently producing no real ale, and operating solely as a contract brewer. View

Cains is a 10-hectolitre microbrewery brewing a mix of keg and cask. Many of the beers are brewed to original Cains recipes, with a few new offerings from the three-man brew team. Brewing is currently... View

Brewery and taproom incorporated in 2017 and opened in 2019 by keen homebrewers Dominic Hope-Smith and Adrian Burke. Specialist styles are brewed and range from light through golden to dark beers. The... View

Multi-award-winning Chapter Brewing was established in 2016 using an 11-barrel brew plant. It produces diverse 'fictional beers' inspired by literature in a range of styles. View

Established in 1991 following the closure of the Greenall Whitley Brewery earlier that year, Coach House Brewing Company is the oldest cask ale producer in Cheshire. With a weekly fermentation capacit... View

Originally established in 2006 at Redruth in Cornwall, the brewer and the complete brewery plant relocated to Crewe in 2020, and is now in the basement of the Craft Beer Oasis Pub and Bottleshop. Brew... View