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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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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

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

The Central Bar

Steam Machine Brew Co.

Newton Aycliffe

Our Top 5 for August

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

1 Baltic Beer Festival @ Baltic, Gateshead
1-2 GCT Beer Festival @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle
11 North East Homebrew Club Meet-up @ Town Mouse, Newcastle
14-16 Berwick Food & Beer Festival @ The Parade, Berwick-upon-Tweed
28-30 Eaglescliffe Beer Festival @ Egglescliffe Community Centre, Stockton-on-Tees

Oh, and make sure you’re following the newest North East brewery, Sidbie’s Brew Co.!

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

Daisy

Craft Beer Newcastle HQ

Download our Map

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

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!).

Beers we 💚

Here are four of our favourites to look out for:

Gan Yam – Joy (5%) NEPA
Brewis Beer Co. – Just Like Heaven (5.7%) Pale Ale
Abbeydale Brewery – Blood Orange Splendour (4.4%) Pale Ale
Barney’s Beer – Post Mortem (8.0%) Popcorn Imperial Pastry Stout

NB: We’ve been unable to drink this month, so these are some of our favourites from earlier in the year

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Want more updates?

We have a WhatsApp Channel where we share our Top 5 events every weekend.

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We also have a monthly mailing list if you’d like updates in your inbox.