Breweries around Merseyside and Cheshire

Brewing continues on the 12-barrel brew length kit. A core range of beers is regularly produced with many one-off specials. Occasional brews of Tipsy Angel beers are produced. The beers can be found i... 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. It also brews under the Manning Brewery name. 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

Brewery producing experimental and speciality beers. Moved to current brewery in 2019 with ex-Mad Hatter brewery kit. Frequently brews specials and collaboration beers. Its cask beers are increasingly... 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. Around 40 outl... 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 started in 2017 at this nanobrewery, which predominately produces bottle-conditioned beers. View

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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

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. It celebrated its 30th anniversary... View

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Start-up brewery established in 2022 and run by homebrewer-turned-professional Andy Thomason. The name originates from the carvings on the Saxon crosses in nearby Sandbach, where Andy lives. Much of t... View

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Established in 2016, a small-batch brewery which began producing cask-conditioned beers in 2023 alongside its extensive keg range. Its tank farm allows for a flexible brew length. The brewery contract... View

Handyman Brewery is based within the Handyman Supermarket. For years this was a hardware store but has now been refurbished into the Handyman Pub, which opened in 2017. Its 400-litre brew kit is situa... View

Happy Valley was established in 2010 using a 2.5-barrel plant located in Bollington. In 2018 the brewery was sold and relocated to Macclesfield, and is based at the Happy Valley Tap & Pizza aka 73 & P... View

Hex Brewery opened 2022. Brews classic-style, vegan beers for cask and bottle. View