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.

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

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

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!).

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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