The dedicated bar for keg & membrane keg beers will be located in the Church Hall, brought to you in association with Steelfish Brewing Co brewery and taproom.
The bar will feature 38 different beers over the festival with 15 lines available at any one time. Beers will rotate as lines become free.
Please check back on this page to see which are on sale at any one time (at busy times there may be a delay in updating the page).
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Availability | Brewery | Town | Beer | Style | ABV | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coming Soon | Anspach & Hobday | London | London Black | Nitro Porter | 4.4 | Notes of roasted coffee and chocolate are balanced by a touch of red fruit from the hops, and brought together with the smooth, creamy mouthfeel |
| Coming Soon | Balance | Manchester | Birthday Blend 2025 | Blended wild ferm | Balance invite their customers to help blend a beer from their collection of barrel aged wild beers. They then age that blend for another year and release it on their birthday. Expect funk | |
| Coming Soon | Black Iris x St Monday | Nottingham | Death Valley | Californian IPA | 6.2 | We teamed up with the excellent Saint Monday brewery to create a celebration of some of our favourite American hops. For this beer we've brewed up a Californian IPA, not a juicy, hazy East Coast NEIPA and not a bitter, resinous west Coast IPA. This beer s |
| Coming Soon | Blackjack | Collyhurst, Manchester | Dancing Saloon | Hazy Pale | 5.2 | A soft, hazy New England Pale with big fruity aromas & flavour. Oats and Wheat give a velvety base to this beer, before it's hit with two of the biggest hops out there - Citra and Simcoe. |
| Coming Soon | Blackjack | Collyhurst, Manchester | Spring and Axle | Pale ale | 4.8 | Light Cascade floral aroma with sweet biscuity notes from the Perle malt |
| Coming Soon | Cloudwater | Ancoats, Manchester | A Chair Is Not A House | Pale Ale | 4.0 | Using the same beer base as the recent cask-only release A Room Is Still A Room, this soft blend is an intricate symphony of flavour, weaving layers of Sabro Cryo, Comet and Simcoe hops. Relish in the sweet coconut, sharp grapefruit and stone fruit not |
| Coming Soon | Cloudwater | Ancoats, Manchester | SoCal | Pale ale | 4.0 | A modern West Coast Pale Ale made to the highest standards |
| Coming Soon | Cloudwater x Tripping Animals | Ancoats, Manchester | Volando | New England DIPA | 8.0 | To capture the sun-drenched spirit of Miami’s white beaches and tropical landscape. We’ve selected a blend of Motueka Cryo, Nelson Cryo and Strata T90 for luscious flavours of ripe guava, fresh strawberries, all complemented by refined hints of lychee and |
| Coming Soon | Deya | Cheltenham | Tappy Pils | Hoppy Lager | 4.4 | A crisp, hoppy lager with noble hop character & a long bitter finish |
| Coming Soon | Fell | Flookburgh | Session IPA | Golden ale | 4.0 | Hazy, fruity and balanced, hopped with Ekuanot, Citra & Centennial. Big dry hop and whirlpool additions, gentle bitterness, just an elegant, super easy-drinking hoppy session beer. |
| Coming Soon | Fell | Flookburgh | St Sunday Lager | Bavarian Style Helles | 4.6 | Crisp, clean and refreshing lager beer brewed in Cumbria; inspired by the classic Bavarian style, Helles. Unfiltered and unpasteurised, it's smooth and moreish with all of the complexity that comes with many weeks of cold maturation. |
| Coming Soon | Kernel | Bermondsey | Dunkel | Munich style dark lager | 4.3 | Expect a rich malt profile with flavors reminiscent of toasted bread crusts, caramel, and a hint of chocolate. The Mandarina Bavaria hops add a delicate citrus aroma, enhancing the beer's complexity without overpowering its malt-forward character. The fin |
| Coming Soon | Lost Cause | Castleford | Absolute Casserole | Imperial stout | 10.0 | Unctuous layers of dark chocolate, espresso and roasty toastiness roll together with a gentle bitterness, restrained sweetness and a subtle hint of umami. Rich, warming and quietly intense, finishing long with lingering cocoa and coffee. |
| Coming Soon | Marble | Salford | Breezin' | Lime and Ginger Gose | 4.5 | With additions of fresh ginger and lime, this cocktail inspired gose balances gentle heat, bright tart flavours and a touch of salt. Breezin' is zesty, refreshing and perfect for Summer |
| Coming Soon | New Bristol x Somer Valley Brewing | Bristol | Dark Lager | Dark lager | 4.6 | Smooth and dark with subtle hints of chocolate and roast |
| Coming Soon | Radio City Beer Works | Chelmsford | Shortwave | Table beer | 2.8 | Citra hopped Table Beer. Sharp, tangy citrus & subtle pine notes |
| Coming Soon | Radio City Beer Works x Elusive | Chelmsford | 7 Deadly Sins: VII Pride | NZ West Coast Pils | 5.6 | Brewed with Motueka, Krush Lupomax and Mosaic Cryo, this refreshing West Coast Pilsner has a lovely crisp bitterness and new zealnd fruity kick |
| Coming Soon | RedWillow | Macclesfield | Contactless | Hazy Pale | 5.2 | Soft and juicy pale ale packed with cryo Mosaic and Simcoe hops |
| Coming Soon | RedWillow | Macclesfield | Shameless | IPA | 5.9 | A gloriously hoppy beer; tropical fruit and a clean Grapefruit finish from Mosaic & Simcoe |
| Coming Soon | RedWillow | Macclesfield | Wreckless | Pale ale | 4.8 | Beautifully balanced pale ale loaded with Citra and Amarillo hops providing massive amounts of tropical fruit and a clean finish. |
| Coming Soon | Runaway | Stockport | Gyle 1000 | Rhubarb saison | 6.2 | Blended wine barrel fermented saison with Rhubarb |
| Coming Soon | Silent | Buxton | Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Wyrm? | Chocolate & Vanilla Stout | 7.5 | A rich and indulgent stout with layers of chocolate and vanilla on top of a decadent stout base |
| Coming Soon | Steelfish | Ardwick | A6 Adrenaline | Kentucky Common | 4.7 | A pre-prohibition beer style with sweet caramel malt flavours, hints of bread & dark fruit. A delicate dry finish rounds out the taste |
| Coming Soon | Steelfish | Ardwick | Claustrophobic Wallpaper | West Coast IPA | 6.0 | Classic West Coast IPA. Clean, piney, resinous with bitter finish. |
| Coming Soon | Steelfish | Ardwick | Shattered Chateau | Saison | 6.8 | An ode to classic Belgian saison, dry and bitter with a touch of spice & funk |
| Coming Soon | Thornbridge | Bakewell | Green Mountain | Vermont session IPA | 4.3 | Vermont session IPA. A hugely aromatic and juicy fruit bomb |
| Coming Soon | Thornbridge | Bakewell | Market Porter | Porter | 4.5 | A smooth, robust and creamy porter with a hint of coffee to finish |
| Coming Soon | Tom's Tap and Brewhouse x Helen & Mahinda | Crewe | Red Rock Rye | Red Rye Ale | 6.0 | It all started with a few txts behind the Church Bar at CBCF 2009. Just 17 years later, Helen and Mahinda are finally tying the knot…and they helped create this beer to celebrate! |
| Coming Soon | Torrside | New Mills | Hidden Depths | Raspberry pale | 4.6 | American pale ale with a twist, brewed with a judicious quantity of raspberries and a hint of whisky! |
| Coming Soon | Track x Ghost Town | Ancoats, Manchester | Haunt | DDH WC IPA | 7.2 | DDH West Coast IPA w/ Nelson Sauvin, Mosaic, Nectaron & Deep Cut Cascade |
| Coming Soon | Tun | Chorlton (brewed Cockerham, Lancashire) | Archetype | Modern English IPA | 6.0 | Blending the vibrant, hop-heavy character of American West Coast IPAs with the soul of British brewing, this Modern English IPA proudly raises a glass to the British craft beer movement. Packed with new-generation English hops from Charles Faram, a UK-bas |
| Coming Soon | Tun | Chorlton (brewed Cockerham, Lancashire) | Gem State of Mind | New England IPA | 6.5 | Hazy, juicy, and packed with tropical character, Gemstate of Mind is a lush NEIPA with a smooth, pillowy mouthfeel thanks to wheat and oats. Idaho #7 and Citra hops bring waves of mango, pineapple, and citrus, with subtle pine and stone fruit undertones. |
| Coming Soon | Tun | Chorlton (brewed Cockerham, Lancashire) | Little Monster from the Id | Pale Ale | 4.0 | Ripe stone fruit, tropical hop notes, and a touch of citrus dance over a soft malt body, taming the Id’s wild side. Fermented with Verdant yeast, it finishes dry, fruity. |
| Coming Soon | Tun | Chorlton (brewed Cockerham, Lancashire) | Quaternity | DIPA | 8.3 | Named after Carl Jung’s archetype of quaternity — a symbol of balance and completeness — this Double IPA craft beer unites the four elemental forces of brewing: water, hops, malt, and yeast. Together they form a harmonious whole, embodying the unity of cr |
| Coming Soon | Vault City | Edinburgh | Mango, Pineapple & Passionfruit Sorbet - Double Scoop | Ice cream sour | 5.8 | Ice cream sour with mango, pineapple & passionfruit |
| Coming Soon | Vault City x Dois Corvos | Edinburgh | Peach & Apricot Pastel de Nata | Pastry sour | 4.8 | Inspired by the iconic Portuguese custard tart, this decadent pastry sour layers creamy vanilla with caramelised sugar and a delicate touch of cinnamon. A juicy peach & apricot twist adds a fresh fruitiness to round out each sip. Brewed in collaboration w |
| Coming Soon | Verdant | Falmouth | Helles | Helles lager | 4.8 | Our interpretation of a Munich Helles is softly malty, smooth and rounded with a tiny flourish of herbaceous hop bitters on the back end. Sessionable, clean and very very moreish. |
| Coming Soon | Weekend Project | Lower Peover | Karaoke | Pale Ale | 4.2 | Soft, orangey, hoppy pale with saturated flavour and low bitterness. amarillo on hot & cold side delivers a fragrant mix of floral citrus layered with subtle peach and nectarine. |
