Last month we attended the highly anticipated Manchester Craft Beer Festival.
The event was held at Manchester Depot, a huge venue which held over 40 plus world class breweries.
Craft beer is usually categorised as independent brewers who distribute smaller amounts of beer, often with a focus on flavour, experience and individuality.
The festival not only showcased an array of different tastes but it was complimented with music from live DJs including Craig Charles, Daddy G from Massive Attack, Django Django and Queen Bee.
Here were our top 10 Craft Beers from the event...
Cleverly named British brewery based in York, created in 2016 by Wayne Smith and Lee Grabham. Offering a variety of brews, but their darker beers and stouts are particularly popular.
Beak Brewery create seasonally inspired beers, collaborating with other great names in UK brewing, including North Brew Co, Partizan, Beavertown, Burning Sky and Northern Monk.
They are based in Lewes, East Sussex where they have a 15-BBL neighbourhood brewery and taproom with a mixed-fermentation project. They also open up their doors as a weekend street food canteen. Check them out!
Named Rate Beer Awards top ten brewers in the world! Offering a range of big and bold flavours.
A combination of music and beer, you can definitely taste the creative collaboration that have gone into the flavours that this open minded brewery provide!
We are a big fan of the wild fermenting techniques that Wild Beer infuse into their creations, they use the seasons to inspire their brews blending their own yeast strains to produce beers of all different styles. Try them for complex and interesting tastes!
This modern, acid-pop branded brewery offer a range of fruity, flavoursome, unique tasting beers and their branding is electric!
Voted 'Best Newcomer' in the Beer 52 Awards 2020. The brand name comes from the three generations of Family brewing business, the owner, Ben Cleary's grandparents were in the pub trade, his parents moved into the wine business and now Ben is in the beer industry - inspiring the name Full Circle.
They describe their brews as big and juicy IPA's, bad ass stouts, and smooth barrel aged and freshly brewed, and we couldn't have put it better!
Whilst they may be rooted in Edinburgh this brewer gets their inspiration from their travels, discovering unusual flavours direct from the source.
This brewer offers a mixed-fermentation sour and wild brewing from their home in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire where they have a 10bbl brewkit, warm fermentation, conditioning room and a cold store.
Manchester Craft Beer Festival will be back next year to find out more visit their website: www.manchestercraftbeerfestival.com
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