Keg Bar 2023

The dedicated bar for keg & membrane keg beers will be located in the Church Hall.

The bar will feature 37 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	Location	Beer	Style	ABV	Notes (Long)
SOLD OUT	Arbor	Bristol	Motueka	Pale Ale	4.0	Gluten Free pale ale with bold tropical fruit flavours and aromas.
COMING SOON	Blackedge	Horwich	Ace Of Spades	Stout Porter	6.1	A modern stout porter, rich and decadent with sweet caramel & chocolate flavour hopped with Pacifica & Rakau.
SOLD OUT	Blackedge	Horwich	Behind Blue Eyes	Blueberry Sour	4.2	A fruited Berliner Weisse dry hopped with Mosaic and fermented with blueberry puree to give a blushing bright beer with blueberry aromas and flavour with a tart finish.
SOLD OUT	Blackjack	Collyhurst, Manchester	Hazy Little Session	Hazy Pale Ale	3.8	Double hit of Passion Fruit, Strawberry and Mango, Pine & Grapefruit take on both the nose and in front of a soft bitterness.
ON SALE	Blackjack	Collyhurst, Manchester	Jeune	Small Saison	4.0	Visual - Hazy straw colour with a tight white foam Aroma - Phenols, Foam bananas, Dried apricots and spicy clove notes Flavour - Spicy cloves, banana and straw Mouthfeel - Lingering dryness with a bitter kick
SOLD OUT	Blackjack	Collyhurst, Manchester	Tilda	American Lager	3.8	An American Light lager made with a large proportion of rice in the grist. This helps to create a very, very light bodied easy drink lager that is perfect for summer beer gardens. Helping to give the beer a crisp, dry finish this is paired with Huell Mellon hops
SOLD OUT	Brewsmith x Marble	Ramsbottom	Head, Heart and Hands	West Coast IPA	5.8	Pale Gold in colour, US & NZ hops bring citrus fruit, peach & grapefruit and a balanced bitter finish
SOLD OUT	Brightside	Radcliffe	Helles Lager	Helles Lager	5.8	Straw coloured with very mild bitterness, clean & fresh taste, with delicate hop aromas & flavours
ON SALE	Cloudwater	Ancoats, Manchester	Fuzzy	Pale ale	4.2	Fuzzy has a soft, smooth mouthfeel. It's fruit-forward and juicy with loads of peachy character.
ON SALE	Electric Bear	Bath	All The Best Names Get Vetoed	Chocolate & Crystallised Ginger Stout	8.0	Packed full of crystallised ginger in the kettle and finished off with generous helpings of vanilla pods and cacao nibs
SOLD OUT	Electric Bear	Bath	ManBearPig Dinosaur	Fruited IPA	6.5	Hip-hoppy, fruity-tooty IPA so superior, you’ll think you’re drinking fruit punch. Packed with passion fruit and peach puree
SOLD OUT	Fell	Flookburgh	Lemon Wit	Lemon Wit	3.0	A witbier style spine shoulders aromatic overtures of lemon thyme and wheat on the nose, the palate then yielding a tart, spritzy, zingy lemon tang alongside more classic fruit salad backing provided by European weissbeer yeast esters. Made with a large p
SOLD OUT	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.
ON SALE	Four Priests	Middlewich	Get Locky	American Pale Ale	5.8	Brewed with Extra Pale and Crystal malts. Hopped with Cascade and a hint of Citra
SOLD OUT	Lakes Brew Co	Kendal	Low & Slow	Table Beer	3.3	Teaming up with 54 degrees North founders we designed the perfect beer for these Pit Masters, going low and slow, we crafted a light, hoppy Table Beer bursting with tropical notes and hits of citrus – ready for those long hours at the smoker.
ON SALE	Lakes Brew Co x Black Lodge	Kendal	Enter Player Three	Hazy IPA	7.0	Using new hop tech in the form of 3 varieties of CGX hops (cryogenic lupulin pellets) Eldorado® CGX™, Idaho 7® CGX™, Strata® CGX™, plus mirroring the 3 varieties with T90’s in Eldorado®, Idaho 7®, Strata®, from Crosby Hops & Indie Hops via Loughran Brewer
SOLD OUT	Mallinsons	Huddersfield	Calypso	Single Hop Pale	4.0	One of our range of single hopped beers, using Calypso hops from the USA. This beer is pale blonde with tropical fruits aroma, and hints of bananas and lychees. The taste is resin bitter and a long grapefruit citrus finish
COMING SOON	Marble x Lark Hill	Salford	Berliner With Rosie	Berliner Weisse	3.9	This collab encapsulates our love of sour beer and creative flavours. Blending apples with rosehip, a fruity floral delight rounded with a tangy refreshing finish.
ON SALE	Neptune	Maghull	Silenus	Extra Special Bitter	5.6	Deep copper colour with light notes of citrus fruit, leading onto caramel malt flavours from Chevalier Heritage malt, with a soft lingering hop bitterness
SOLD OUT	New Bristol	Bristol	Bristol Dark Lager	Dark Lager	4.8	Brewed with a special blend of dark malts for a rich, nutty cocoa flavour and crisp finish. A deliciously dark, smooth brew
ON SALE	RedWillow	Macclesfield	Brett Centennial	Bretted Pale	3.6	Primary fermentation with our house yeast then inoculated with a strain of Brettanomyces that develops flavours of Cantaloupe Melon and Lychees. This beer is a perfect example of the powers of Yeast and Brettanomyces, refreshing and complex, perfect for w
ON SALE	RedWillow	Macclesfield	Lil’ Soul	Black IPA	4.5	Session Black IPA is the perfect balance of roasted malts and tropical hop flavours. Hopped with Ekuanot and Sabro, it boasts notes of citrus, coconut, and pine.
SOLD OUT	RedWillow	Macclesfield	Witless	Wheat Beer	4.2	Easy drinking and refreshing wheat beer. Coriander in the boil & orange zest in the fermenter gives a crisp and zesty finish.
ON SALE	Runaway	Stockport	American Brown	American Brown	5.7	Seriously moreish Brown Ale with caramel sweetness balanced by big flavour hops
ON SALE	Squawk	Ancoats, Manchester	Picus	Gluten Free IPA	6.2	A classic combination of Mosaic, Amarillo and Simple add tons of pithy citrus and dank herbal notes to this soft and juicy Gluten Free IPA.
COMING SOON	Steelfish	Reddish	Alus	Kellerbier Lager	4.1	Take on a classic Kellerbier brewed with German Pilsner and Czech Hana malt, classic German hops added in the hotside then lagered & condition traditionally for two months. A small dry hop addition of Ella hops added just before packaging provides a clean
SOLD OUT	Steelfish x Pictish	Reddish	Thanks for Today	DH Pale Ale	4.1	Our first collaboration beer, brewed with no other than Pictish Brew Co, making its debut at the 2023 Chorlton Beer Festival. With summer beer festivals in mind we leveraged on the experiences of both breweries to produce this drinkable session strength P
SOLD OUT	Strange Times	Salford	Coyote	Pale ale	4.5	Packed full of American hops and citrus aromas, Coyote has a strong hop flavour and slight bitter finish.
SOLD OUT	Strange Times	Salford	Lorelei	German style lager	4.2	Light and refreshing german style lage with a subtle bitterness
ON SALE	Stubborn Mule	Timperley	Bière de Saison	Timperley Saison	6.5	A traditional farmhouse style Saison. Fermented with Belgian yeast & made with fresh, locally foraged, Rhubarb & Elderflower.
ON SALE	Stubborn Mule	Timperley	Pils, Thrills & Bellyaches	Gluten Free Pilsner	4.8	Gluten Free, Pilsner Beer. Our riff on a classic Continental receipe using German malts and some damn fine Czech Hops.
ON SALE	Sureshot	Manchester	I Wish I Could Fly	DDH IPA	6.5	DDH IPA with Citra, Rakau, Mosaic & Nelson Sauvin
SOLD OUT	Thirst Class	Stockport	Abundance of Daves	Black West Coast IPA	6.2	Brewed award winning home brewer with Howard Crook, this is his winning entry to the Stockport CAMRA Homebrew competition 2023 - a banging Black West Coast IPA with Cascade, Amarillo and Simcoe hops.
COMING SOON	Tom's Tap and Brewhouse	Crewe	Crewe's Control	DDH Tropical IPA	5.0	5% Brewed Originally as DDH Tropical Pale and now the house pale for The Crewe Dog in Crewe Market Hall, Crewe’s Control features Galaxy, Idaho7 and Mosaic and is fermented with Voss Kveik yeast to enhance those tropical flavours
SOLD OUT	Torrside	New Mills	Franconia	Rauchbier	5.2	Deep golden ale brewed with 85% smoked malt, inspired by the smoked beer traditions of Germany
SOLD OUT	Track	Ancoats, Manchester	From Above	Hazy Pale Ale	4.1	What is this we have here. A beautiful Pale Ale, dazzling like the sun off a shimmering lake? Bright zest filling your nostrils with lemon & white grape? We agree. But look deeper… what’s missing… can you see what it doesn’t contain… GLUTEN. That’s right
ON SALE	Wiper & True	Bristol	Milkshake	Milk Stout	5.6	Milk Shake, our 5.6% Milk Stout, is brewed with sugar from cow’s milk to give the beer a sweet, creamy tone. The beer combines copious chocolate malts laced with vanilla and cacao to create a luxurious, milkshake-rich and satisfyingly dark beer.