Your curated guide to indie beer in the North East

Craft Beer Newcastle is your go-to guide to the best independent beer in the North East of England. We connect you with the breweries, bars, bottle shops & events that make our region’s beer scene so exciting.

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Breweries

Discover the best breweries in Tyne & Wear, Northumberland, and County Durham

What’s On

From tap takeovers to beer festivals and food pairing events, find something new to do with our weekly WhatsApp update

Visit the North East

If you’re heading to our region for a few days, we’ll let you know where’s best to go

Where To Go

Popular Destinations

The Free Trade Inn
Newcastle upon Tyne
First & Last Brewery
Northumberland
The Central Bar
Gateshead
Steam Machine Brew Co.
Newton Aycliffe

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We’ve put together a Google Map featuring our favourite beer spaces to visit across the North East.

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Go explore

We’re big fans of walking/hiking, so we’re currently checking out some local routes (with beer stops along the way, of course!).

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Our Top 5 for June

Looking for things to do this month? Here are our recommendations:

09 North East Home Brew Club Meet Up @ The Town Mouse, Newcastle
18-20 Tynedale Beer Festival @ Tynedale Rugby Club, Corbridge
21 Bomb Girl’s Charity Bottle Share @ The Central, Gateshead
26 Thirsty Moose Pop Up Pub @ Ponteland Memorial Hall, Newcastle
28 Monthly Dog Social @ Two by Two’s Taproom, Newcastle

Oh, and Almasty’s taproom is back open for the summer every Friday & Saturday from 2pm – 9pm…as it’s our local, it needed a mention!

Daisy Turnell - Beer Sommelier, Beer Judge, Owner of Craft Beer Newcastle and Co-owner of Tipple Marketing
Daisy

Craft Beer Newcastle HQ

Tyneside Lambic Trail - Rennies at the Mean Eyed Cat

Beers we 💚

Here are four of our favourites to look out for at the moment:

Almasty – Echelon (4%) Pale Ale
Rigg & Furrow – IX. The Hermit (6.3%) Hazy IPA
First & Last – Embrace* (4.9%) Hazy Pale
Twice Brewed – Main Offender (8.5%) Imperial Stout

*disclaimer – we helped to brew this as a collaboration for International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day (IWCBD)

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