About Us

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.

Our Vision

Craft Beer Newcastle is our way of shouting about the brilliant breweries and beer spaces we’ve got here in the North East.

We’re all about the independents – the pubs, bars, breweries, taprooms, and hardworking people who make it all happen. We share who they are, what they’re up to, and hopefully help to connect more people to the wonderful community that is such an important part of what makes our region so special.

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Our Values

Community First

Beer’s always been about bringing people together, and that’s a big part of what Craft Beer Newcastle is about, too. We love sharing news of grassroots events, collabs, home brew club meet-ups, and anything that helps the North East beer scene to grow. Craft Beer Newcastle has stayed ad-free and sponsor-free since we launched 10 years ago, and is run as a social enterprise, with our time donated for free. We’ve sponsored charity beer festivals, run pop-up bars where the North East is underrepresented, and raised over £2,000 for Newcastle food banks along the way.

Promoting Inclusivity

Our blog is a community space and our social events are open to everyone who loves good beer and meeting new people. We highlight the breweries and venues doing genuinely positive work, and we try not to amplify those who use PR spin and marketing to try to distract from poor practices. Our goal is to help make the craft beer world more welcoming, honest, and fair, and to celebrate the people who are pushing things in the right direction.

Independence Matters

Independent breweries and venues are what make the North East beer scene unique. We want to prioritise the businesses that put community first, care about quality, and stick to their values. There are plenty of big companies with big budgets trying to dominate the scene and make every pub feel the same — we want to see more love for local beers and a better variety of guest beers. We’re here to celebrate them and help people visiting our region to find the places that really matter.

Meet Our Team


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

Daisy Turnell

Owner

An accredited Beer Sommelier, international beer judge, and member of the British Guild of Beer Writers, Daisy is also co-owner of Tipple Marketing.

Miro the black cat reading a beer book

Miró

Chief IPA Officer

Added to the team back in 2018, he oversees all beer deliveries, with a nose for the finest West Coast IPAs. A big fan of catnip and sniffing coffee beans.

Rothko the tuxedo cat sitting in a load of white tissue paper

Rothko

Head of Chaos

Joined the team in 2021. Choose strife. Choose zoomies. Choose head-butts as a career. Choose sprawling across your feet while you enjoy a beer.