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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

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 so have tested some great local routes (with beer stops along the way).

Our Top 5 for May

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

21 Verdant Guided Beer Tasting @ Mosaic Tap
22 Taproom reopens @ Almasty Brewing Co.
22-24 Blackfriars Beer Festival
25 La Chouffe Mini Showcase @ The Free Trade
29 Taproom Event @ Allendale Brewery

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

Daisy

Craft Beer Newcastle HQ

Beers of the Month

Here are four of our favourites to look out for:

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

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