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Beer on Merseyside in June  (inc. the LCB Expo)

5/31/2017

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And so the season for some excellent beery goings on is hurtling towards us at a rate of knots!  The Liverpool Craft Beer Expo looms on the horizon and there is much buzz about things and many other events taking place around Merseyside and Liverpool over the same period; as such I have made an attempt at trying to ringfence everything and corral the information into one location for you lovely people... just so there is an 'at hand guide' for the following weeks.
 
The date spread is from the first weekend in June and through until just after the Craft Beer Expo finishes, so read on and see if there are any places that you think you need to be in June!
 
 
Saturday, June 3rd
 
Brewery Open Day and Tap at Connoisseur Ales, St Helens (12pm until 10pm).   Over in St. Helens, the first Saturday of most months sees family run Connoisseur Ales open their doors for impromptu brewery tours and a chance to try reasonably priced and brewery fresh cask or bottled beers from their range.  Entry is free and there is usually a range of up to eight cask beers on, only a 30 second walk from St Helens Central train station.
 
[Wolverhampton House, 121-125 Church Street, St Helens, WA10 1AJ]
connoisseur-ales@outlook.com / www.connoisseurales.com

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Monday, 12th June
 
Founders Love Left Hand - Summer of Love Event at Dead Crafty Beer Company will be taking place, with representatives from both Founders and Left Hand breweries present from 7pm onwards, ready to chat and with many of their beers for attendees to sample (2 are included in the ticket price).
 
[98 Dale Street, Liverpool. L2 5TF]
www.deadcraftybeercompany.com


Tuesday, 13th June
 
Dead Crafty will be hosting another round of the Dead Good Bottle Society, Ben from Top Rope Brewing will be presenting and talking through a selection of beers stocked in the Dead Crafty fridges.  The event starts at 8pm prompt and includes at least 4 beers to try.  Tickets are £15 per person and the more people attend the tasting, the more beers there are to try.
 
[98 Dale Street, Liverpool. L2 5TF]
www.deadcraftybeercompany.com 

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Wednesday, 14th June
 
 
The Wildly Different Dinner event - Oktopus will play host to Bristol’s Wild Beer Co.; there will be a paired dinner with beer from the brewery consisting of 5 plates and matched beers.  The event takes place at Oktopus restaurant in Hardmans Yard from 7pm until around 10pm and costs £30 per person.  Wild Beer Co’s Andy Gibson will be on hand to compere the event.
 
The link for tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-wildly-different-dinner-tickets-35015536412?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=esfb&utm-source=fb&utm-term=listing
 
[Hardmans Yard, Hardman Street, Liverpool. L1 9AX]
https://www.oktopus-restaurant.com/
 
 
The Dead Crafty Beer Company is hosting the Liverpool leg of the Juicebox500 tour from Fourpure Brewing Company.  The event will launch the brewery's excellent IPA - Juicebox and there will not only be the beer to try, but merchandise and cans available as part of the event, which will coincide with the ever fun Dead Crafty Quiz night starting around 7-8pm.  There will be a fee for participation in the quiz, to be confirmed.
 
[98 Dale Street, Liverpool. L2 5TF]
www.deadcraftybeercompany.com 

Also on the 14th June, Brewdog Liverpool have got a Tap Takeover and Meet the Brewer Event taking place at their bar featuring beers and representatives of Danish outfit, Dry and Bitter.  The event starts at 6.30pm and runs all evening; admission is at the very agreeable price of... free!   Beers likely to feature are the Christian Bale Ale, Citra Bale Ale, Body Pillow APA and many more!


https://www.facebook.com/brewdogliverpool/

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Thursday, 15th June - Sunday, 18th June
 
The Liverpool Craft Beer Expo takes place at Constellations on Greenland Street in the Baltic Triangle area of Liverpool.  Sessions include Thursday evening, Friday evening, Saturday day, Saturday evening and all Sunday. This event usually sells out (in fact at time of writing, the Saturday afternoon is full), so get tickets rather than chancing it on the door. 
 
The event is one of the best beer festivals around with a great atmosphere, excellent beers from around the UK, Europe and the US and a mix of indoor and outdoor areas means a chance to mix things up if the weather allows! 
 
[35-29 Greenland Street, Liverpool. L1 0BS]
www.constellations-liv.com / www.liverpoolcraftbeerexpo.com 

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Across the same range of dates as the Expo, Deva Craft Beer are hosting a four day Best of British beer festival at their Deva Taps in Chester.  The festival will feature over 30 beers on keg and cask along with a range of ciders and gin.  The event starts at 3pm on the 15th June.  Keep an eye out for some newer Deva beers including a smooth mango IPA and also get ready for their new menu launch soon too with plenty of food at the festival!
 
[121 Brook Street, Chester. CH1 3DU Tel: 01244 401777]
www.devacraftbeer.co.uk
 
 
The afterparty for the Expo will take place at Black Lodge for another Tap Takeover in Liverpool, this time by Beavertown; the event is free to attend and the Black Lodge will be open for business until 3am.  Brave and thirsty?  To make that time you will need to be!
 
[4 Kitchen Street. L1 0AN]
http://www.blacklodgebrewing.co.uk/brewery/

 
Dead Crafty Beer Company will also play host on this evening to Hawkshead Brewery for a Beers with the Brewer event.  A six-tap (allegedly with some special kegs) takeover will be launched at 7pm, with the representatives from Hawkshead talking through their beers and brewery.  Tickets are £5 per person and includes a beer on arrival for the event.
 
[98 Dale Street, Liverpool. L2 5TF]
www.deadcraftybeercompany.com 
 
 
Friday, 16th June
 
The Black Lodge Tap Takeover part two is hosted by Firestone Walker; as ever, loads of their beers will be on and the venue will host an afterparty and be open til 3am.  No door tax either.
 
[4 Kitchen Street. L1 0AN]
http://www.blacklodgebrewing.co.uk/brewery/

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Saturday, 17th June
 
Red Star Ales host a Brewery Open Day and Tour at their site in Formby.  The brewery tour will start at 1pm and runs until 4.30pm, the tour costs £20 per person and includes food and unlimited cask beer to go at, brewery fresh.
 
[54b Stephenson Way, Formby. L37 8EG]
www.redstarbrewery.co.uk 
 
 
Black Lodge will host its final Tap Takeover afterparty event for the Expo, with the lines being handed over to The Kernel for their beers to be poured.  As ever, Black Lodge will be open late and entry to the event is free.
 
[4 Kitchen Street. L1 0AN]
http://www.blacklodgebrewing.co.uk/brewery/
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Sunday, 18th June
 
This Father's Day Brewdog Liverpool will be hosting a Stone Berlin Beer and Whisky Pairing with Zippo from Stone Berlin.  The tasting will include 5 Stone Berlin beers, 5 amazing whiskys, and lots of paired German-style small plates.  All that, with a branded glass to take away as a memento for each attendee.
 
Tickets are limited and on sale at £31.85 per person.  The event runs from 7pm until 10pm approximately:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beer-whisky-pairing-with-stone-berlin-tickets-34321388196
 
 
[8 Colquitt Street, L14DE.]
https://www.brewdog.com/bars/uk/liverpool

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Good luck to everyone planning on attending all that – physically impossible as it may probably be, but there is something to whet your appetite for beers going on thick and fast over the coming weeks around Liverpool and the Northwest (including some things over at Manchester Beer Week – post-Expo).
 
Hope you found this guide useful!


Pedro.
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#LIVEBEER TAP TAKEOVER

10/1/2016

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It’s been a pretty hectic year so far for The Dead Crafty Beer Company and indeed, Liverpool in general as it seeks to push forward its reputation as a city mentioned in the same breath as some others when it comes to beer and brewing.  One such organisation with this promotion and development at the forefront of what they are driving to do, is the Liverpool Beer Collective.  Now for a quick disclaimer; I am part of this collective in so much that I really want to make a positive contribution to a scene which was for so many years, desperately barren and devoid of diversity, so I won’t wax lyrical too much on how positive I think this initiative is (I wouldn’t be involved if I didn’t think that). 

The Liverpool Beer Collective has been running a pretty visible social media campaign for a while now and is dedicated to promoting a number of breweries, bars and bottle shops across the region in order to provide some joined up thinking and provide for a healthy, vibrant and diverse scene in the city.
 
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Things are looking quite fertile in Liverpool at the moment; there are no fewer than another five breweries popping up lately in addition to the five or six covered around this time last year (Neptune, Parker, Red Star, Rock the Boat and 3 Potts – Black Lodge also opened up around this time, also followed by Southport’s The Craft Brewery).  There have been a few extra micropubs (Beer Station, CASK, The Alehouse, Grasshopper and Skew Bridge to name a few) and bars (Hard Times and Misery, plus Dead Crafty only opened its doors in March 2016) popping up across the region with the remit to sell cask and craft beers (and small batch spirits) giving people an even more diverse number of establishments to spend their time.
 
Back to Dead Crafty and on the weekend of the 9th until the 11th September, a local tap takeover was held – half the keg lines in the bar were stocked with beers from Liverpool Beer Collective partner breweries and there was the introduction of a loyalty card for prizes donated by members of the Beer Collective along with a tasty 10% discount in the Crosby Beer Bottle Shop for completed cards (think like those coffee cards you get at places around the city).  Judging by the turnouts, the event was pretty successful. 
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Both Dead Crafty and the Ship and Mitre shifted kegs and casks of local beers quite quickly (one firkin of a Connoisseur Ales’ Pale lasted no more than 7 hours from being tapped), with plenty of enthusiasm on the day for the takeover event from visitors.  The enthusiasm spilled over for the tasting and meet the brewer events that took place as part of the weekend too, with Connoisseur Ales kicking things off on Friday evening in the Ship and Mitre, followed by new kids on the block Top Rope Brewing and Moonsugar Brewing.  The events section was rounded off by Mad Hatter Brewing presenting tasters of their coffee IPA and the Wild Night Out (Elderflower) on Sunday afternoon.

The talks from Top Rope and Moonsugar were particularly noteworthy, as both breweries are yet to formally release anything officially.  There have been tastings at brewing clubs, but nothing to the general public on this scale and both breweries did themselves proud – the quality of their beers was nothing short of astonishing.  If they can replicate what they presented at this event in future via keg, cask or bottle, they should be absolutely fine.
 
Top Rope presented the following beers; Orange Soda Gose, Overkill IPA (a tip of the hat to the late Lemmy from Motorhead), Ryecentennial Brown and 8-Bit Pale Ale.  A nice rounded and diverse portfolio, with the Gose being a very refreshing and interesting take on the style and the Ryecentennial being a very fine brown ale with tonnes of character.  Moonsugar brought along their IPA, Stout and notably, some rather excellent Mead, which is definitely setting them apart from other outfits in the region.  Both talks were informative and bode well for two potentially brilliant additions to the Liverpool scene and with any luck, the beers, braggot and mead will filter out from the city and find the rest of the UK (and hopefully beyond).
Going forward there is the possibility of more events along the same template as this tap takeover, but the best way to find out is to keep an eye on the Twitter and Facebook feeds which have both been very well managed (so not by me, then).
 
What would you like to see from the Liverpool Beer Collective and Liverpool’s bars, brewers and bottle shops over the coming months?
 
Cheers,
 
Pedro.
 
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Liverpool Beer Collective

Email: liverpoolbeercollective@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivBeerCo
Facebook: www.facebook.com/liverpoolbeercollective
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