– Your Beers of the Year 2020
Here are all the responses to our 2020 beers of the year survey. Enjoy! Thanks to everybody for taking the time to enter.
John-Paul Murphy
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Deya Steady Rolling Man
Deya Saturated in Citra
Verdant Fruit Car Sight Exhibition
Cloudwater Just the right shape
Verdant The windows accusing the door of abusing the door
Favourite brewery of 2020
Deya
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Deya
Beer experience of 2020
Friends & Family 2020
Hopes and dreams for 2021
That Fynefest & Indyman happen.
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Joe Dick
Edinburgh based account manager for James Clay
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Thornbridge/Firestone Walker Pondera
Boon Geuze
Cloudwater Heller Bock
Newbarns Plain Dark Beer
Burning Sky Tail Crush
Favourite brewery of 2020
Burning Sky
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Thornbridge
Beer experience of 2020
Friends visiting became a special moment, which in turn led to more and more opportunities to dip into the cellar. Sharing became more valuable, and was such a pleasure.
Hopes and dreams for 2021
Getting back to travelling the world for beer. Brexit not destroying everything in my life.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
A rationalisation of the industry. Those that chased the trends over the past few years will fall away, and those with a solid foundation will prosper.
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Rich Higgins
Semi-retired skateboarder
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Squawk Pavo
Shindigger Festiva
Cloudwater Helles
Anspach & Hobday Ordinary Bitter
Pomona Island Pale
Favourite brewery of 2020
ShinDigger
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
ShinDigger
Beer experience of 2020
First take out jug of keg pale from the Hillary Step post lockdown
Hopes and dreams for 2021
Less virus dictated living.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Classic bitters!
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James
Assistant Manager, ÖL Bar
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Muscle Memory, Track
MCI#4 Chocolate Orange, Cloudwater
The Accomplice, The Veil
BA Times 8, Lervig
Coco, Three Chiefs
Favourite brewery of 2020
Cloudwater
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
The House of Trembling Madness
Beer experience of 2020
Friends and Family and Beer – incredible lineup and festival went off without a hitch
Hopes and dreams for 2021
A return to normal – pints in the pub with pals
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Smoothie seltzers lol
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Alex Esposito
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Northern monk – gamma vortex / tank petrol/ equilibrium/other half
Polly’s brew co – DDH Rosa
Verdant – Putty
Alpha Delta – achlys
Cloudwater – night on the files
Favourite brewery of 2020
Deya
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Craft brewtique
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Beer festivals 
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
More beer festivals make up for the loss this year
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Richard Brownhill
Plate Spinner at Little Leeds Beerhouse
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Newbarns Extra Pilsner
De Dolle Brouwers XL Pale
Beak Locals
Kernel Dunkel
Burning Sky Apricot Rustique
Favourite brewery of 2020
Newbarns Brewery
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
TEAM DEYA
Beer experience of 2020
Changing our business model approximately 4274 times, while drinking loads of Lager
Hopes and dreams for 2021
Giving a customer some beer in a glass x
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Brexit. Lol
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E Finch
Eclectic beer padawan
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Track: Breathing Conversations – DIPA
Cloudwater: Be Well Friends – TIPA
Finback: Bird God – DIPA
Cloudwater: Speyside Persistence is Utile – Impy
Brouwerij Hof ten Dormaal: Kriek Zure van Tildonk – Fruited sour
Favourite brewery of 2020
Track
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Twisted Wheel
Beer experience of 2020
25th Anniversary evening out in Manchester. Enjoying Zwanze beers still on at Cafe Beermoth. (Fou Foune!!!)
Hopes and dreams for 2021
1) To wake up and find Brexit was a bad dream!?!
2) The spontaneous decombustion of the cabinet.
3) The ability to frequent Manchester’s finest beer haunts and not be limited to one venue for eating/drinking.
4) Beer festivals
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
DBIPAs & TBIPAs? Getting anything decent over form mainland Europe :-(
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Hedley C
Science won’t direct itself
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Valour – Torrside. Luscious, chocolatey, smooth imperial stout without any adjuncts. Speaking of adjuncts…
My Continuous Improvement – Cloudwater. It’s like a bottle of Frijj in beer form.
Three-Sided Peach – Cloudwater. The peachiest beer I’ve ever had. Dreamy stuff…
Overture – Wild Beer and Cascade. The plummiest and damsoniest beer I’ve ever had.
Filigree and Shadow – Pomona Island
Favourite brewery of 2020
Torrside
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Bargain Booze Davenport – seriously, they’re really good.
Beer experience of 2020
Central Manchester CAMRA beer festival, by default.
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
A return to normality with the option for random pints.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
No idea! Surprise me! As long as it isn’t milk shake IPAs.
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Joe Cleverley
Teacher, runner, beer lover.
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Deya Steady Rolling Man
Wilderness Haro BA
Track Eye to Eye
Cloudwater Night on the Flies
Buxton Yellow Belly
Favourite brewery of 2020
Deya
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Thirst Class Brewery
Beer experience of 2020
Predictable but first pint of cask beer after lockdown at my brilliant local The Stalybridge Buffet Bar.
PSBH taster days involving Pomona, Track and Deya were amazing also! (Ed: Awh, thanks chick!)
Hopes and dreams for 2021
Be able to socialise more with friends and loved ones in our most favourite place aka the pub!
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Pubs and breweries receiving the support they need to stay afloat and flourish as businesses that give so much to many.
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Mark Terry
Human Being
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Wylam – I’m not Mary
Cloudwater – Goods Things for Everyone
Cloudwater – That’s Not Me
Track – Language Barrier
Northern Monk – PP25.01 Everyday Abstract
Favourite brewery of 2020
Track
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Track
Beer experience of 2020
Track pulling out all the stops to keep us in beer, despite us needing to bale out to the Midlands.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Traditional, regional beers
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Avi Steinberg
Avid ale and craft beer drinker on two wheel powered by pedals! (not in a straight line)
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Einstock Icelandic porter
Cantillon Rosé De Gambrinus
7Brothers Thorw away IPA
Byker Brown Ale
Track Uzon Sour
Favourite brewery of 2020
Track
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Guys at Flok Manchester and port st beer house
Beer experience of 2020
Probably the most sober I have been in years!! But lads at port St have put me on my ass a few times in 2020. Followed by the micro bar Arndale. Always listen to the bar staff of they it’s going to put you on your ass! It is going to!!
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Back to Friday drinks at port St and Microbar
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
It all depends on ones taste!! Micro brewery’s are on the rise so surprise us!!!
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Adam
Architect In Edinburgh
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Box Car blushing tone
Deya – steady rolling man
Newbarns oat lager
Siren – suspended in cans
Donzoko fest bier
Favourite brewery of 2020
Deya
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Premier hop
Beer experience of 2020
Getting too drunk at home by myself listening to system of a down
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Getting too drunk with my friends listening to system of a down
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Really good Lager!
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Connal Orton
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Northern Monk Patrons Project 21.03
Cloudwater The Seed Which Cannot Be Sown
Polly’s DDH Spur
Garage Jumpsuit
Zagovor Soulmate
Favourite brewery of 2020
Polly’s
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Premierhop
Beer experience of 2020
Discovering DIPAs and TIPAs and that strong beers don’t have to be overwhelming.
Hopes and dreams for 2021
A pint in the pub rather than at home.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Pints rather than cans!
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Damian O’Shea
Heaton Hops – I take cans from boxes put it into our fridges and turn it into profit
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Lervig BA Times 8
Cantillon fou foune
Deya saturated in Citra
St Mars Babalu
Elusive Oregon Trail
Favourite brewery of 2020
Newbarns / St.Mars
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Nils Lindberg – Deya a lockdown legend
Beer experience of 2020
Serving actual pints
Hopes and dreams for 2021
Being able to serve pints again
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Cans that don’t dent in a canning machine
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Neil Condron
Punter
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
RedWillow – Ruby Mild
Bellwoods Brewery – Jelly King
Schneider Weisse – Festweisse
Pohjala x Bagby x Boneyard – Bag of Bones
Thirst Class x Beermoth – Unfined Elpenor
Favourite brewery of 2020
The Kernel
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Damian at Heaton Hops
Beer experience of 2020
Friends and Family Fringe
Hopes and dreams for 2021
IMBC
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Bitter and ESB
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James Dickinson
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Other Half – DDH Double Mosaic Dream
Left Handed Giant – King of the Woodland
The Veil – STARVE: Exhibit C
Green Cheek – Immaculate Confection
Wander Beyond – Storm in a Teacup
Favourite brewery of 2020
Vocation
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
House of Trembling Madness
Beer experience of 2020
Cloudwater Friends and Family
Hopes and dreams for 2021
No more Covid restrictions.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Tax
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Adam N
Beer fan
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
A Gentle Nod To Welcome Visitors – Cloudwater
CBS (Canadian Breakfast Stout) – Founders
Grand Cru – Rodenbach
Fossil and Fern – Left Handed Giant
Imperial Mocha – Vocation
Favourite brewery of 2020
Verdant
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Beer Merchants
Beer experience of 2020
Manchester Beer and Cider Festival
Hopes and dreams for 2021
The return of beer festivals and pub crawls
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Quadruple IPAs
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Sophie
I miss table 8. (Ed: I don’t)
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Track – Sonoma Cask (always)
Track – Listening Wind
Deya – Your Bad Luck Has Saved You
Kernel – Biere de Saison Apricot
Burning Sky – Saison Provision
Favourite brewery of 2020
The Kernel
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Track
Beer experience of 2020
A slightly apocalyptic-feeling farewell tour of my fave NQ pubs the afternoon before the first lockdown.
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
To sit indoors in a proper good pub with a group of friends. Not a substantial meal in sight.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Trendy bitters.
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Scott Kenneth Jackson
Indy Man Beer Guy
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Track Sonoma
Squawk Corvus
Flensburger Pilsner
Schöfferhofer Grapefruit
Früh Radler
Favourite brewery of 2020
Between New Barns and St. Mars of the Desert
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Track and Pomona Island
Beer experience of 2020
Sonoma in 10L bag in box
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Cask beer, please.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
More beer served in boxes aka beer cubes.
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Rob McGowan
Yes mate
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Long way short step – Track
Saturated in Mosaic- Deya
Saturated in Nelson- Deya
Random Rules – verdant
Torque wrench – industrial arts
Favourite brewery of 2020
Deya
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Northern Type
Beer experience of 2020
Other Half tap room in Brooklyn. End of February, just before it went tits up
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
No micros or indies go under and come out thriving. Back to indie man, salford and summer beer thing. Enjoying good beer with good people again
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
British hops! More unity amongst indies against the tax and big breweries!
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HuishHugh
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
BABS III, Wild Beer
Oude Geuze Cuvee Armand & Gaston 17/18 #26, 3 Fonteinen
Maiden 2019, Siren
Old Ale Amontillado BA, Marble
Eiche-Doppelbock, Aecht Schenkerla
Favourite brewery of 2020
De La Senne
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Hop Burns & Black
Beer experience of 2020
Visit to Brasserie De La Senne just before The Great Lockdown.
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Vaccine rolled out and the pubs back open (with no need for substantial meals).
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Kevin Fenton
Internet gobshite
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Pomona – Same Thing We Do Every Night
Cloudwater – MCI 5
Cisk
Fix
Dig Brew – Oh No It’s A Lazer
Favourite brewery of 2020
Pomona
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Gaz at Pomona
Beer experience of 2020
Drinking shit lager on a deserted beach in Greece with my wonderful girlfriend as the sun set over the mountains
Hopes and dreams for 2021
Pubs
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Pubs
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Adam
25, Writer and amateur baker
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Loch Lomond Different Class 4%
Hilden hopended IPA 5.3%
First Chop USA 4%
Captain Lawrence Citra Dreams 7%
Tempest Catch Sun 5.4%
Favourite brewery of 2020
FirstChop
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Flavourly
Beer experience of 2020
Beer 52’s Christmas-saving advent calendar
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
The return of pubs and the continuing success of independent breweries
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
A bigger interest in craft due to the pandemic and drinking at home – more range in pubs and more festivals
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Duncan
He/him PA
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Track Sonoma
Neptune Brewery Azuli
Pomona Island Factotum
Mallinsons Nelson Sauvin
Overtone Pale Azacca
Favourite brewery of 2020
Mallinsons
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Craftbrewtique
Beer experience of 2020
Little did l know it, but my final pub based pint of cask beer (Mallinsons Nelson Sauvin) in Font MCR
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Friends and family sat round a pub table
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Mini-casks at home (for me at least)
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Mark Gamble
Forever skint craft beer fan
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Sonoma – Track
Beech House – Rivington
Nelson Sauvin – Brewsmith
Restless – Redwillow
Raspberry Gose – Yonder
Favourite brewery of 2020
Redwillow
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Redwillow/Casked Alehouse
Beer experience of 2020
Discovering a syringe worked to create a head on BIB cask.
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
To spend time in a good pub and peoplewatch
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Mild 
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Elana
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
The Light Grey one – Cloudwater
Written in the Dust – Deya
If Not Now – Track
Meet Me in the Middle – Track
Apple Maple Pecan sour – Vault City
Favourite brewery of 2020
Track
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Trembling Madness
Beer experience of 2020
The event packs by Cloudwater
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Beer fests
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Hop City!
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Callum
Man from earth
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Crystallography Cloudwater
Track if not now
Cloudwater NZ TIPA
Five Points Railway Porter
Pomona island monkberry moon delight
Favourite brewery of 2020
Cloudwater
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Milk carton slingers of NQ
Beer experience of 2020
First cask pint (mallinsons Nelson sauvin I think) back after first lock down in PSBH.
Hopes and dreams for 2021
Hugs
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Innovation and core range instead of chasing hype (hypocritical here considering the beers I’ve drank this year)
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Patrick Cavanagh
Mancunian ale schlurper
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Ego tripping at the gates of hell – Pomona
Schofferhofer (paired with a slice o’ Nells)
Please be lovely to each other – Cloudwater x Finback
Persistence is Utile: Bitter Chocolate – Cloudwater
Steady Rolling Man – DEYA
Favourite brewery of 2020
Cloudwater
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Cloudwater’s local shipping team
Beer experience of 2020
F&F&B in February before shit hit the fan.
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
To drink sweet sweet ale in the company of hundreds of others on the hallowed ground of Victoria Baths. Few pints of bitter down the local would also be nice.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
PINTS (pls)
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Joshua Muldoon
Grrrr Aargh
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Redwillow, Foeder Lager
Scherlenkerla, Krausen
Pomona Island, Style Control Damage & Aggression
Pomona Island, Sploice
Cloudwater + Finback, FFB 02
Favourite brewery of 2020
Pomona Island
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Beermoth
Beer experience of 2020
VISBF 2020
Hopes and dreams for 2021
Beer in a pub with mates
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Another hot take on DIPAs
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George
Pomona Islander
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Newbarns Oat Lager
Beak Oopla
Donzoko Big Foam
Blackjack Helles
Newbarns Plain Dark Beer
Favourite brewery of 2020
Newbarns
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Reasons to be Cheerful, the Epicurean and Stretford Food Hall
Beer experience of 2020
Park bench cans in a summer sun beam
Hopes and dreams for 2021
More beers from taps, less substantial meals
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Nitro DIPA, the return of red ale and people doing weird thing lager (I give it four months until there’s a 440ml of a sour pilsner)
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Ruari McGlone
@RuariMcGlone / ThisIsmybeeraccount
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Deya SRM
Track Sonoma (cask that time you were open for a bit)
Cloudwater Be Well, Friends
The Veil Cherry Razz tastee
Deya I Got You!
Favourite brewery of 2020
Cloudwater
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Tap Select in Oswaldtwistle!
Beer experience of 2020
Friends and Family 2020,
Or just coming to your gaff for a nice pint mid lockdown! (Ed: Yes come on!)
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
RIP COVID
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
lagers. More lagers.
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deadmanjones
Drinker 7 miles out, in Blackjack’s Tuesday range
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Blackjack Stroopwafel Expert Stout
Beer Nouveau Cherry Sour
Manchester Hop Project
Manchester Union Black Lager
Wild IPA
Favourite brewery of 2020
Beer Nouveau
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Blackjack
Beer experience of 2020
Infrequent visits to the Ancoats Off Licence that Beer Nouveau conjured up, dropping off cherries for the cherry sour or hops for the Manchester Hop project, and getting great beer back in return. Steve kept the supply chain in business and the community in good spirits.
And beer arriving at my house – where I know unexpectedly spend the majority of my time – from Blackjack, Shindigger, and Manchester Union.
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Brewery Taps and pubs reopening across Manchester.
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Nick
I like beer (Ed: I’ll drink to that!)
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Cloudwater – Only a dream can kill a dream
Hackney Brewery – Banshee
Cloudwater – Be Well, Friends
Temporal Artisan Ales – Vastahan
Finback – Oscillation 020
Favourite brewery of 2020
Hackney Brewery
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Beermoth
Beer experience of 2020
Brisbane Beer Festival
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
More beer
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Salted Caramel Mushroom IPA
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Caroline
Cask fan
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Firebrand Citra Mosaic small batch
Bronkhorster ijeselbock
Vocation Divide & Conquer
Cromarty Red Rocker
Thornbridge Jaipur
Favourite brewery of 2020
Firebrand
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Blackjack
Beer experience of 2020
Wigan beer festival just before the first lockdown – still can’t believe that it went ahead!
Hopes and dreams for 2021
That my fave pubs/bars make it through this pandemic
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Double dry hopped IPA
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Luke
Graphic Designer based in Otley, Leeds
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Donzoko – Big Foam
Burning Sky – Easy answers IPA
Magic Rock – Magic 8 Ball
Fyne Ales Origins – Expedition 2
Kirkstall – Black band porter
Favourite brewery of 2020
Burning Sky
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
The Curious Hop, Otley
Beer experience of 2020
Drinking Easy answers IPA and Kernel table beer on my Wedding day with family and friends at the end of February, all before COVID took over.
Hopes and dreams for 2021
Sitting in one of my locals with friends, drinking cask beer. Maybe a beer festival if we are lucky? That would be ace.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Older beer styles making a resurgence. More examples of great Bitter, Scotch ale and Red ales would be nice.
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Phill Coleman
In between drinking (hopefully good beer) and trying to convince my two kids that sleep is a good thing, I yell at computers
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Black is Beautiful – Track
My Continuous Improvement #4 – Cloudwater
Thank Your Lucky Stars – Wylam
Blackberry & Nettle Sour – Little Earth Project
Birthdays in Isolation – Pentrich
Favourite brewery of 2020
Pentrich
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Pomona
Beer experience of 2020
Propping up the corner of the bar on my own in Reasons To Be Cheerful in the very small window of opportunity to have a proper cask beer again…
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Buying a round of drinks again… any pub or bar… for anybody!
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Serving it again
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Barry Shaw
Beer buyer and general assistant
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Abbeydale Deception cask
Arbor C Bomb cask
Neptune Mosaic Cask
Rat Cricket Rat Cask
North Riding Mosaic Cask
Favourite brewery of 2020
North Riding
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Mallinsons
Beer experience of 2020
Collab brewing with Rat brewery
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Pubs open restriction free
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Adjunct free beer
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Curly Turner
Lived in Manchester for 10 years and then moved to North Wales during the first lockdown. It was an enjoyable experience. My hobbies are staring out of the window and going for occasional runs in the hills. Oh and drinking beer/cwrw
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
DIPA – Cloudwater
Day of the Death – Northern Monk
Fallow Plans – Polly’s
Foeder Kviek Pale ale (citra) – The Kernel
Heathen – Northern Monk
Favourite brewery of 2020
Overtone – I don’t recall having a beer by them I didn’t enjoy
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Wild Horse Brew Co. in Llandudno. They do a cracking free delivery to North Wales. They are always releasing new beer that has been consistently pretty great.
Beer experience of 2020
Me and my bro went on the brewery tour at Cloudwater back in February just before the world turn upside down. Really interesting experience having a 10% porter handed to you before 12pm. The tour itself was very engaging and fun. At least I think it was, I was swaying a little on my way out.
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Hoping I’ll actually be able to visit my local pub, get to know the locals and practice my Cymraeg. I don’t even mind what the beer is like, just be nice to be in a pub again.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
I think there might be a move to more traditional British styles (bitters, milds etc.) I’ve noticed more bitters from more trendy brewers recently. Plus this Brexit nonsense may make it more expensive to source certain hops. So this may cause a move to less hop forward styles. Or maybe Tiny Rebel will do a collaboration with Greggs and make a Steak-bake Stay Puft. Who knows!?
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David Bailey
Spod
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Runaway Brown Ale 5.7% bottles from Heaton Hops
Runaway Viennese Waltz lager 5% pints from Port Street Beer House
The Beak Pencil porter 6% cans from Heaton Hops
Deya Saturated in Nelson DIPA 8% can from Heaton Hops
RedWillow Everything is Pointless smoked banana and chocolate imperial stout 10% from RedWillow delivery
Favourite brewery of 2020
Newbarns / The Beak
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Breweries were all on it and it was easier and more tantalising to order beer online than ever before. Ultimately though, Heaton Hops, for being insanely on it in terms of sourcing the new hype and putting it all in one place with daily local deliveries and collection.
Beer experience of 2020
Drinking 5 litres of Five Points Railway Porter bag in box cask, courtesy of BlackJack’s delivery service, at home. Amazing beer and the ultimate dispense method of 2020 – BAG IN BOX.
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Less hectic, less pivoting, less virus
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
A mini keg that will fit in my small fridge. Maybe using the Muji t-shirt cube technology to fit 5 litres into a vessel the size of a jar of mayonnaise.
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Susan Babons
Daily nightly and ever so rightly
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Stars for days – Green Cheek
Be well friends – Cloudwater
Babalú – Smod
DDH Nelson Daydream – Other Half
Wild sinister kid (cherries) – Trillium
Favourite brewery of 2020
Cloudwater
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
The Epicurean (new Chorlton one)
Beer experience of 2020
Friends and family and beer 2020
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Hopes – Indyman and SBT mega fest and Dreams – pubs re-opening for good, free chips and the dissolution of the Conservative party for the rest of time
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Vaccinated juice juice
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Mike Nixon
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Cloudwater – Subbles
Cloudwater – My Continuous Improvement #1
Northern Monk – OFS 024
Left Handed Giant – King of the woodland
Track – long way, short step
Favourite brewery of 2020
Cloudwater
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Beermoth
Beer experience of 2020
One weekend in the summer where I was finally allowed to go drink beer with friends. A rare occurrence.
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Pubs surviving, craft breweries flourishing, nights out with friends
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Being able to drink it in a pub!!
—
Simon
Manc-based cask obsessive
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Pomona Island – FACTOTUM Pale
Beatnikz Republic – I SMaSH EKUANOT
Marlow Rebellion Beer Co. – Overthrow
Tilquin Oude Gueuze
Seven bro7hers – SALTY TIERS
Favourite brewery of 2020
pomona island
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
blackjack brewery
Beer experience of 2020
a mournful pre-covid geuze in port st
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
port st beer house
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
venues where you can order beer from a tap to enjoy at a table indoors with your mates (Ed: It’ll never catch on)
—
Mr X
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Kernel Foeder Kviek Citra Pale
St Mars of the desert various experimental hop IPA’s
Cloudwater Sabro Triple IPA
Redwillow Black IPA
Vocation Heart & Soul Session
Favourite brewery of 2020
Vocation because 4 for 6 in Asda
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Beermoth a.k.a only shop in town
Beer experience of 2020
Jaded by the irresponsible alcoholic-tinderbox scenarios and glutinous end-of-year bank statements of bar owner’s and tax collectors around the globe, the gods endowed with powers over alcohol legislation have chosen to plague earth’s population until they see evidence of the 10 basic commandments being followed to a T
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Come-uppance for the guilty heathens
Hefty Tax on ALkopops OR phasing out of NHS but not both please
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
The nail in the coffin : all bars and pubs close down forever because Gen Z don’t think its cool to drink.
Talking about cask will become a thing done in museums and people won’t barely believe we used to sip tepid booze through an old bit of tube poked thru a mouldy-looking ceiling
—
Tim Roberts
Craft Beer hun
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Deya – Saturated in Motueka
Polly’s Brew – Pines
Track – If you lose me
Deya – Written in the dust
Track – Weight of the planets
Favourite brewery of 2020
Deya
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Shindigger/Track
Beer experience of 2020
Becoming a fully fledged DIPA Fangirl
Hopes and dreams for 2021
Glastonbury, theatre, gigs, pub, friends and more beer
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
More hop diversity and experimentation
—
Ben
Jedi
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Braybrooke – Pils (gravity keg)
Fullers – ESB (cask)
Donzoko / Braybrooke – Vienna lager
Favourite brewery of 2020
Braybrooke
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Deya (50% nhs staff)
Beer experience of 2020
You’re kidding right?
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
More maturing beer scene in the uk
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Neipa like every year
—
Daniel Simson
“I like booze and screwing alright Terry?” – George Best
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
If only I had a heart 2020 : Pomona Island
Thank you for continuous support : Cloudwater
Strawberry woo woo : Vault city
You Do : Cloudwater
What could go wrong : Track
Favourite brewery of 2020
Cloudwater
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Beermoth
Beer experience of 2020
Sharing a sharing bottle of impy stout with friends (albeit socially distanced) on the last night before lockdown 2 in Öl bar.
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Being able to drink in Port St again with Friends and for Cloudwater to make a single hop dipa with fuggle hops.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Nitro DIPAs and clear West Coast IPAs
—
Lewis
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Pomona Island If Only I Had A Hammer
Verdant Maybe One More PSI?
Northern Monk Patrons Project 7.07
Cloudwater Speyside Persistence Is Utile
Pentrich Dead Earth
Favourite brewery of 2020
Pomona Island
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Trembling Madness
Beer experience of 2020
Lockdown Night March 20th 2020
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Just for the pubs to open.
—
John Shenton
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Cloudwater Thanks again for your support
Polly’s big spur
Pentrich Christmas in isolation
Cloudwater Night on the files
Verdant Pavement licker
Favourite brewery of 2020
Cloudwater
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
The hopwater cellar
Beer experience of 2020
Friends and family event in Manchester
—
Elliot Hines
Beer is yum
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Track – Sonoma forever and always
Cloudwater – Chubbles
Polly’s – DDH Patternist
Deya – Saturated in Nelson
Kernel – Export India Porter Mosaic Amarillo
Favourite brewery of 2020
Deya
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Epicurean Didsbury
Beer experience of 2020
Exploring Glasgow’s beer scene pre pandemic. Grunting Growler in particular was a highlight
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Pub. Cask. People.
Otherwise, less overly sweet sours and stouts.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Quad IPAs?
—
Josh Waldock
Sales & Events at Turning Point Brew Co
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Omnipollo – Mads
Five Points – Stout Porter
Donzoko x Braybrooke – Vienna Lager
Evil Twin – Oh My God, He’s A Bozo!
Turning Point – Gravedigger’s Biscuits
Favourite brewery of 2020
Siren Craft
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Raynville Superstore
Beer experience of 2020
Augustiner Biergarten
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
Beer Festivals
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Types of barrels becoming more varied, and barrel aging becoming more accessible/commonplace/mainstream
—
Jane
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Twelve Yellow Legs, Cloudwater
Thanks Again For Your Support, Cloudwater
Bianca Blackberry Maple Gose, Omnipollo
Fruit car sight exhibition, Verdant
My continuous improvement bitter chocolate v1, Cloudwater
Favourite brewery of 2020
Cloudwater
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Cloudwater
Beer experience of 2020
Barbecue & lots of different beers in the garden 
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
To feel safe in a bar / pub
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
UK brewers going from strength to strength
—
Stuart P
Favourite beers of 2020 (in no particular order)
Donzoko Select Pils Tettnang
Cloudwater Ponderosa Pines On Rainier
Deya Back To Earth
Bray Brooke x Donzoko Vienna Lager
Track Sonoma
Favourite brewery of 2020
Donzoko Brewing Co.
Who was your beer supplying hero of 2020?
Heaton Hops
Beer experience of 2020
I… I don’t think I had one.
Hopes and dreams for 2021?
A pint of cask. Just one.
What’s the next big thing for beer in 2021?
Who knows? Smoked sour beers?
– Your 2019 Beers of the Year
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Name
Aaron
Rubber duck
- 1) Spirit Ritual – Trve brewing
- 2) L’amour en cage – New Belgium
- 3) Mexican cake stout – Westbrook brewing co.
- 4) Clamp – SMOD
- 5) Faithless 111 Simcoe IPA (cask) – Redwillow
St Mars of the Desert
Helping/watching the brewing of ‘Crumbling Splendour’ with Dan and Martha from St Mars for Indyman
Living juicy in a pair of velvet tracksuit pants that say juicy on the rump
Savoury flavoury!
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Paddy Peel-Barnard
- 1) Salted Caramel Stay Puft – Tiny Rebel
- 2) Niki – Omnipollo
- 3) Jantelagen – Howling Hops
- 4) Pump Up The Jam – Tiny Rebel
- 5) Blackcurrant Trifle – Mad Scientist
Tiny Rebel
Visiting Omnipollos Hatt in Stockholm.
The porter style to make a spectacular return to form in winter, and IPAs to get more brash, come spring/summer
Eco friendly, zero plastic manufacture.
—
Name
Maria
- 1) Black currant Trifle – Mad Scientist and Brewdog Budapest for CollabFest 2019
- 2) Sang Royal – Cascade Brewing
- 3) Pump Up The Jam – Tiny Rebel
- 4) Dubbel Beta Coumarin – Solvay Society and Two Tribes
- 5) Mr Brown 2019 – To Øl
Touring around craft beer bars in Warsaw, ticking off the 2019 Mr Brown series. Favourite that we returned to several times was Kufle i Kapsle
More sours with different flavours!
More eco-friendly and less waste
—
Three Hills, Trium Faba (Ed: That’s not your name, that’s a beer!)
Big, viscous, delicious chocolate and tonka bomb. Big enough to share and enjoy, memorable enough to nominate this is a greeeeeat beer and should be celebrated. (Ed: This bio is about the above beer!)
- 1) Verdant Keep Left
- 2) Mikkeller Beer Geek Maple Shake
- 3) Carnival Brewing Macau Oat Cream Pistachio Pale
- 4) Neptune Medusa’s Gaze BA Imperial Stout
- 5) Omnipollo Gimbagagompa
Verdant
Indyman Friday am session.
Reduction in beer duty to make great craft more accessible, and for our great independent breweries and bars to thrive. I also want the large brewcos and congloms to stop pretending they can do craft just by buying some of our great brands.
Candy sours by the looks of it. Pretzel stouts. The big finale of the 750ml sharers before Portman Group gets them banned.
—
Daisy
Aggressive Enthusiast
- 1) Other Half Deep Orbit Vega Special Edition
- 2) Track Sonoma (always)
- 3) Brew York Cherry Tonkoko
- 4) Verdant Don’t Tell Gus
- 5) Trillium Peanut Butter Cup
Omnipollo x Buxton
Friends, Family and Beer or Omnipolloscope
More of the same
Back to basics
—
Stefan Melbourne
Operations Manager at Track Brewing Co
- 1) Green Cheek – TIPA
- 2) Grimm – Psychokinesis
- 3) Timothy Taylor’s – Landlord
- 4) Finback – BFP1
- 5) Cerebral – Foudre Aged Helles
Finback
Our first trip to NYC!
Find ourselves a new space and keep on trying to get better at everything we do
IPA
—
Name
Adam Keyworth
@adamkeyworth
- 1) American Solera – VCPC Dilemma
- 2) Fonta Flora – Carolina Custard
- 3) Modern Times – Modem Tones
- 4) Hudson Valley – Fallow
- 5) Lervig – Times 8
Polly’s
Cloudwater F&F&B – best beer festival on English soil, made even better by Green Cheek All Batter Everything getting free-poured and Jang the App Man falling asleep stood up, again.
Hudson Valley on cask.
Hard Seltzer shite, unfortunately. But hopefully the trend will be people stop calling 8% stouts ‘imperial’, soft arses.
—
Andy
31. Disney and DIPAs
- 1) Cloudwater x The Veil: Chubbles
- 2) Verdant x Equilibrium: Keep Left
- 3) Track x Zagavor: Uzon
- 4) Deya x Other Half: My Life In The Sunshine
- 5) Cloudwater: Good Things For Everyone
Cloudwater
Friends, Family and Beer fest
More accessible hype beers
Fruited goses
—
Mr Beerington
PErson of BEer
- 1) Pomona Island / Vocation Ibuki IV 7
- 2) Five Points beST (Fuggles) 4.1
- 3) Redwillow Heritage Special Bitter 5.3
- 4) SMOTD XXX Mild 9ISH
- 5) Squawk Corvus 7.4
Squawk was good but not for 2020 sadly (expansion=bad)
Drinking the last few unadulterated pints before it all goes down the proverbial pan
Hops and dreams
Making your friends who can’t drink beer drink crap wine at soaring prices and gin seemingly because of stupid laws/capitalism making drinks quality plummet around us
—
Craft Ale Manc
Homebrewer, drinker & appreciator of fine beers in all forms & styles!
- 1) Wylam – Jakehead
- 2) Marble – Cubbio Damage
- 3) Thirst Class – Path Of Most Resistance
- 4) To The Moon – Apollo V2
- 5) Verdant – Allen
Marble (tough – loads right up there)
Indy Salford Beer Festival (#ISBF6)
Improvements to homebrew quality, #ISBF7, a hot summer of sours, Saisons & Gose!
Lager Radlers or Heritage beers.
—
Daniel Woods
Untapped Beginner @danielwoodspro 210+
- 1) People do odd things – Verdant
- 2) Imperial Stay Puft Irish Cream – Tiny Rebel
- 3) Coconuts – Lervig
- 4) Hot Fuzz – Wilde Child
- 5) Granny’s Mix – Northern Monk
Wilde Child
Leeds International Beer Festival
To visit the Tiny Rebel brewery and Tap
Pilsner 2.0
—
Rod ‘The Mod’ Stewart
King of the Model Railway. Green Brigade UTLR since 2006. Pub singer
- 1) Four Friends by Burning Sky
- 2) AOC by Finback
- 3) VCPC Dilemma by American Solera
- 4) Fallow by Hudson Valley
- 5) Bière de Mars by Hill Farmstead
Half Acre Beer Company
Clapping eyes on Paul Jones’ bespoke Cloudwater/Half Acre Adidas jacket at Friends and Family and Beer…superior threads
To lead the green-and-white faithful in song across the beautiful city of Gdansk ahead of our first appearance in the UEFA Cup Final since May of 2003, when one of the great injustices in modern history unfolded in Seville (more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMFF4967XbM)
What will be 2020’s beer trend?
GASP as Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor takes on an ambassadorial role at Cloudwater. SHRIEK when Hillary Clinton reveals all about the time she drained an entire keg of Five Points Pale whilst standing on her head. And COLLAPSE IN ASTONISHMENT when Northern Monk cement their Mancunian credentials by inking a product placement deal with Coronation Street, that will spiral quickly from Kev and Tyrone enjoying a civilised tasting of the latest Patrons offering to Chesney sucking nine pints of Heathen off the tap and reducing the Rovers to rubble. Remember: just like Wu-Tang Clan, craft is for the children.
—
Joe Hill
Dork
- 1) Deya: Swedish Octopus
- 2) Cloudwater: West Coast IPA
- 3) Fantôme: Sorachi Saison
- 4) Wylam: There’s Nothing Wrong With Dreaming
- 5) Torrside: King Bugbear
Deya
Indy Man!
The continued resurgence of west coast IPAs
More acquisitions and fake craft.
—
Patrick Cavanagh
Indy Man app developer. Proud member of the Conservative Party. Absolutely massive mosher. Juggalo for life
- 1) Brewdog – Punk IPA
- 2) Oranjeboom 16
- 3) Robinsons – Build a Rocket Boys!
- 4) Budweiser Black Crown
- 5) Tetley’s – Smooth
AB/InBev
Breaking the bank for Hudson Valley cans at Hop City, and then deliberately rendering myself unconscious in time for the train journey home so that my friends could enjoy them in peace, absolutely free of charge. What can I say – that’s just the kind of guy I am!
The immediate reinstatement of His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, to public life, along with an eight-figure lump sum to be paid to him from the public purse as compensation for acute emotional distress. (Ed: Oh, Patrick…)
The return of the noble Flensburger Tower to COMMON in time for the opening game of Scotland’s Euro 2020 campaign on June. Looking forward to repeating last year’s party trick of sinking a full one in one go, and then noisily defecating into the empty vessel. YES this is a confession – it was I!
—
Joe Avis
33, Old Trafford, Chap
- 1) Assemblage #1 – Burning Sky
- 2) Meemaw – Fonta Flora
- 3) House Couture – American Solera
- 4) Muscat Première – De Garde
- 5) Swim Test – Green Cheek
Track
Holding onto the floor after F,F&B
No hangovers
Anything but lactose
—
Name
Roger Barnes
- 1) Track – Sonoma
- 2) Anarchy Brewery – Imenso
- 3) Donzoko – Northern Helles
- 4) Cloudwater – Birthday beer
- 5) Fierce / North – collab beer
Anarchy Brewery
Indy Man
Cloudwater Friends and Family tix
Hybrid beers
—
Becky Flockhart
Port Street General Manager
- 1) Donzoko – Helles (4 lyf)
- 2) Dugges – Banana Toffee Chocolate
- 3) Mikkeller Spontan Quadrupel Raspberry
- 4) Schofferhofer Grapefruit (My Son)
- 5) Strongbow – Dark Fruits
Donzoko
Summer Beer Thing. I buy the beer for it so yeah…
To get over my hate of pink gin
Pink gin
—
Denny Rogers
- 1) Donzoko – Northern Helles
- 2) Abbeydale – Ryes From The Grave
- 3) Black Iris x Beatnikz Republic – Today’s Empires Tomorrow’s Glasses
- 4) St Mars Of The Desert – Triple
- 5) Beatnikz Republic – Bête Noir
Abbeydale
Black Iris x Beatnikz Republic beer launch for Manchester Punk Festival
To not die
Probably NEIPAs and pastry stouts because people are idiots. It should be Lagers and Mild though, that’s the dream
—
Morten
Beersomm and bartender at Piccadilly pub in Bodø, Norway.
- 1) Verdant – Putty
- 2) The Veil/Omnipollo – Tefnut Raspberry
- 3) Tree House – Julius
- 4) Northern Monk – Striding Edge
- 5) Cromarty – Lager
Northern Monk
Friends, Family and Beer or LIBF
Big beers in smaller cans.
Low ABV beers.
—
Dave Taylor
32, Male, Woking
- 1) Deya – Invoice me for the microphone
- 2) Double Barrelled – Birthday TIPA
- 3) Siren – Caribbean White Chocolate Cake
- 4) Verdant – Fruit, Car, Sight
- 5) Wylam – Greenbutt skunt
Wylam
Friends & Family
More beeeeeers
Mixed ferm fuss over DIPAS
—
Iwan
Indomie Connoisseur
- 1) Samuel Smith – Old Brewery Bitter Oak Cask
- 2) North Brewing Co. – Touch Sensitive DIPA
- 3) North Brewing Co. x Little Bao Boy – Peach & Lychee Session IPA
- 4) Pomona Island Brew Co.- If Only I had The Guts
- 5) Other Half Brewing Co. – We’ve Been Out There In Orbit W/ Bananas, Walnuts, and Caramel
North Brewing Co.
North Brewing Co.’s fruited gose adventure. – Track Brewing Co.’s 5th birthday five time, five time, five time, five time, five time can release.
Tetsuya Naito to finally win it all and become the double New Japan Pro Wrestling Heavyweight and Intercontinental Champion at Wrestle Kingdom 14. Whilst Shingo Takagi goes on to win the NJPW G1 Climax. Now gimme a 2 sweet ~
Esports beer teams.
—
Daniel Read
AM/Beer Guy at Bundobust
- 1) Squawk – Roller
- 2) Suarez Family – Rauchbier
- 3) Yonder – Raspberry Gose
- 4) Hill Farmstead – Double Citra
- 5) Põhjala – Vahtra
Ooosh Yonder or Squawk
UK’s ever wonderful Burning Sky pouring MAGNUMS of Assemblage at IMBC. Very fun – more magnums in beer please!
More beer taking up wine’s space in restaurants. Hopefully work with more of the best/nicest breweries we’ve met at Bundo!
Trappist delights
—
Alex Dixon
Love beer
- 1) Verdant – Don’t tell Gus
- 2) Track – Sonoma
- 3) Fantome – Magic Ghost
- 4) Cascade – Pistil Whipped
- 5) Cloudwater – Chubbles
Track
Indy man 2019 – Thursday session
Verdant opening a tap room in Manchester/Heaton park!
Low strength juice bombs
—
Hedley C
Med comms professional
- 1) Wild beer co – B.A.B.S. The original batch, not #2. Gorgeous multi layered imperial stout
- 2) Cloudwater and a US brewery I can’t remember – Indulgently Crisp Experience. Nelson say in in IPL form, yes please
- 3) Abbeydale Funk Dungeon – Ryes from your grave. Tart and fruity Flanders red style thingy
- 4) Torrside – Battalion Bull Terrier. Sauterne barrel- aged smoked imperial blend sounds like it would be a right mess, but it was a perfectly balanced and subtle masterpiece
- 5) Torrside – Swiss-guard sighthound. Moscatel barrel-aged wheat wine that outdoes the mighty Bull Terrier
Torrside
Manchester beer festival, just for the “beers from the wood” bar
Continued creative brews from Torrside that shouldn’t work, but do.
250ml cans for strong beers
—
Jason Boardman
Ticketing and DJ bloke
- 1) The Other Half + Hudson Valley – High Brightness
- 2) Cloudwater – Chubbles
- 3) Verdant x Other Half – Now We Are Here
- 4) Track – Birthday Series – No 3
- 5) Brew York x Vocation – Medjuica
Track
Other Half x Hudson Valley – High Brightness at Indy Man was an off the hook token magnet!
Hopes and dreams for 2020?
We don’t #gedditdun
Not for me personally but Alcohol Free Craft will be everywhere in 2020.
—
Name
Princess Fenton
Motor Mouth
- 1) Neon Raptor – Leaping Llamas
- 2) Amunsden – Glazed and Confused
- 3) Grimm – Tesseract
- 4) Wizard – Time Flies
- 5) Omnipollo – Bianca
Pomona Island
Friends & Family
More beer
Mild
—
Jonathan Heyes
Common & Co Head Honcho
- 1) Burning Sky – Petite Saison
- 2) Other Half + Cellarmaker – Cadillac Tuxedo
- 3) Evil Twin NYC – I ONLY LOOK UP AT TALL BUILDINGS IF IT’S THE LATEST STARCHITECT-DESIGNED TOWER
- 4) Siren – Maiden 2017 Cask
- 5) Number of the Yeast – Cloudwater
Pomona Island
IMBC 2019 as always!
Drinkable drinks.
Harry Summers
Music-man, Beer-man and Barman of PSBH
- 1) The Silent World – Creature Comforts
- 2) Robust Porter – Burning Sky
- 3) Brown Ale – Blackjack Brewery
- 4) Corvus – Squawk
- 5) Guileless – Redwillow
Squawk (specifically that good cask stuff)
Arlo-Attenborough Greenway’s and Carl McBride’s leaving do. A proper send-off to two great dudes, food prepared by my talented older brother (Euan), and Kernel Foederbeer on keg for a ludicrously low price. Good friends, good beer, great experience.
That people continue to be nice to each other. Those that aren’t? Cut that nonsense out! Grab a beer, make a friend, respect your environment. Don’t be a silly.
IPA’s so hazy, it make you go crazy. Not a fan of this personally, I just want some decent malty boys on the regular.
—
Leopold Green
likes beer, dislikes Tories.
- 1) Twice Baked Potato – Other Half
- 2) Modem Tones Aged in Bourbon Barrels with Vanilla – Modern Times
- 3) Incredibly Profound Alignment – Cloudwater
- 4) Corvus Whisky BA – Squawk
- 5) Existential Thanks – Cloudwater
Cloudwater
Cloudwater Friends and Family
Trump loses in November and the tories all resign
old style english bitters
—
Matt Gorecki
Head of Beer – IMBC
- 1) Kernel – Raspberry Stout
- 2) Deya – Just a Glimmer
- 3) Bass – Gravity poured at the Dolphin in Plymouth
- 4) Orval/Landlord
- 5) Mahrs Brau Pilsner in Bamberg
Deya
Somewhere in between visiting Bamberg, drinking my own beer in my own taproom, drinking Drive Fonteinen in their own taproom, drinking Landlord anywhere it’s kept well once Autumn is underway and drinking draught Bass in fantastic condition in the VER wavy Dolphin pub in Plymouth. A selection of very authentic experiences in the sea of fuckery that was 2019 – can’t pick one, not gonna
No More Joke Beer
NO MORE JOKE BEER
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Scott Kenneth Jackson
Indy Man Beer Guy
- 1) Arclight Soursmith Red Raspberry – tasted exactly like raspberry jam
- 2) Ayinger Lager Hell – better than Teg and Augustiner (don’t @ me)
- 3) Cascade 2012 Kriek – TBH, this whole list could easily be made up of the vintages that these guys brought to Indy Man
- 4) Donzoko Genever BA Flanders Red – yet another great modern interpretation of a trad beer style from this former Thirsty Games contestant and [spoiler] my own personal brewer of the year
- 5) Pomona Island Killian is Lying to You – a 3.3% DDH Table Beer absolutely jam-packed with flavour
Donzoko Brewing Company (honourable mention: Pomona Island Brew Co.)
cArlo-geddon: Carl and Arlo’s joint Port Street leaving do at Blackjack, attended by generations of former PSBH legends, MVPs and regulars.
For a certain brewery (who I can’t name here) to finally agree to pour at Indy Man.
Hard kombucha
—
Name
David Markham
Beer drinker, food lover and cyclist from Sheffield
- 1) To Øl – Jule Maelk Islay Edition
- 2) Jaipur
- 3) Kernel Biere de Saison – Nelson Sauvin
- 4) Lervig 3 Bean Stout Rum Barrel
- 5) Siren – Maiden 18
Abbeydale
Sitting with my partner and pals in an Abbeydale picture-house drinking delicious beers from some of the UK (and beyond)’s best breweries at the fantastic Indie Beer Feast
Less pointless arguments
Looooooooow ABV
—
Chris Turner
A keen runner from Stockport fuelled by peanut butter and imperial stout
- 1) Nebuchadnezzar by Omnipollo
- 2) Heaven & Hell by Brouwerij De Molen
- 3) Radio The Mothership by Collective Arts
- 4) Xocoveza by Stone
- 5) Death By Caribbean Chocolate Cake by Siren
Mobberley Brewhouse
I attended the Sheffield Beer Festival at Kelham Island. It had a huge selection of beers. Most of the beer was pretty average but there was an opportunity to watch a heritage steam engine being operated. A group of Spanish students couldn’t finish their beef jerky because it was too spicy and they were kind enough to give the rest to me and my friends. It was that spicy it was like an outer body experience. Tremendous fun.
Got a Brewery tour booked at Cloudwater. Very excited.
Beer made from repurposed food waste.
—
Sneaky
39, bloke, likes stout
- 1) Lervig – Times 8
- 2) Dancing Knome – Black Clouds Double Vanilla
- 3) Transient Artisan Ales – Kentuckley
- 4) Siren Craft Brew – Death by Caribbean Chocolate Cake (2019)
- 5) Amundsen – Cookie Monster Bourbon
Siren Craft Brew
Dark and Wild City in Leeds, epic weekend of Stouts
Visit more beer festivals, try and discover more amazing stouts
No idea, bigger & bolder flavour (if it could even be done after 2019!)
—
David Bailey
Content Provider. Illustrator.
- 1) Saint Mars of the Desert x IMBC x Zapato Crumbling Splendour
- 2) Donzoko Northern Helles
- 3) The Kernel Centennial & Hallertau Tradition Foeder Beer
- 4) Hawkshead Windermere Pale @ Petersgate Tap
- 5) Veltins @ Port Street
Saint Mars of the Desert
Going to Saint Mars of the Desert to help aid with the IMBC 19 collaboration, Crumbling Splendour
More West Coast. More 3% pales on cask.
Spicy beers
– Port Street 9th Birthday 06/02/20
PORT STREET BEER HOUSE 9th BIRTHDAY
Thursday 6th February 2020
5pm – midnight
Free entry
It’s our 9th Birthday! To celebrate we are laying on the following…
FIVE POINTS TAKEOVER
We welcome Hackney’s The Five Points Brewing Company to Port Street for maybe the first time ever (I’m old, I can’t remember). One of the mainstays on the modern beer scene, Five Points have been knocking our socks off lately with their supreme cask beers, seminal pales, and barrel aged specialities. Expect more Five Points than you shake a stick at. FULL CASK COVERAGE, modern classics, and spicy specials.
CASK
PALE 4.4% flagship pale
BEST 4.1% bitter
CITRUS PALE 4.2% Sicilian lemon & grapefruit pale
BRICKFIELD BROWN 5.4% brown ale
HOOK ISLAND RED 6% red rye
DERAILED PORTER 
5.2% Brett aged Railway Porter
PSBH x FIVE POINTS x SQUAWK “NINE FINCH RAILS” 5.7% Stout Porter | Corvus meets Railway Porter
KEG
XPA 4% extra pale ale
PILS 4.8% Pilsner
RAILWAY PORTER 4.8% fkn classic
JUPA 5.5% juicy pale ale
CATPAW 5% BA Chardonnay mixed ferm sour
OLD GREG’S BARLEY WINE 2018 12.8% booze nation
BOTTLES 660ml sharers
BA GRAND STOUT 12% whisky BA stout
OLD GREG’S BARLEY WINE 2018 12.4%
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PSBH x FIVE POINTS x SQUAWK NINE FINCH RAILS LAUNCH
It wouldn’t be a birthday without A BIRTHDAY BEER. Five Points are coming up to Manchester to brew a beer at the almighty Squawk. It only made sense to merge two of our favourite dark beers of the past few years…Five Points’ Railway Porter and Squawk’s Corvus. Find it on CASK at our Birthday! Nine Finch Rails.
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SQUAWK SHOWCASE
Find 4 x Squawk Brewing Co hits pouring on our UPSTAIRS BAR all night long. Squawk are one of our favourite Manchester breweries so we wanted to get them in on the party. Five Points downstairs, Squawk upstairs…gotta catch ’em all!
KEG
Muta – DIPA 8.1%
Fusca – Choc & Vanilla Milk Stout aged 12 months in Wild Turkey barrel 9.5%
Barrel Aged Corvus – Stout 7.2%
Rubra – Sour aged on 40kg of cherries in french red wine barrels 7.4%
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SIOP SHOP BIRTHDAY CAKE
We’ve asked our friends Lucy & Iwan at Siop Shop to whip up a 9th Birthday STOUT CAKE. Free slices from around 6pm…while it lasts (which won’t be long). It might have some Five Points in it. Who knows!
Hope you can join us. Thanks for visiting over the years. Your presence is presents enough.
– Verdant Putty UK Launch 16/01
VERDANT PUTTY UK LAUNCH
Thursday 16th January 2020
Port Street Beer House
5pm – midnight
Free entry
The yearly release of Verdant’s Putty DIPA is fast becoming a highlight of the UK juice calendar. This year Verdant are pushing Putty nationwide with a host of venues across the UK launching this year’s Galaxy, Mosaic and Azacca-packed DIPA.
Port Street is proud to be the Manchester city centre home of Putty’s 2020 debut. KEG and CANS from 5pm…