A hopefully helpful guide to all the breweries in the Greater Manchester county area – we can argue about accurate geographical locations and historical “identity” in the comments below.
This post was made possible by the posters ‘CHAPS2034’ and ‘TheDukeAbides’ from this thread
If you are the brewers in question, or someone who can help expand the list/details and get a better logo for the brewery, then please let me know.
August 2015: As I’ve started to add mead producers I’ve also decided to add cider producers and will also add wine makers, which will then probably mean adding spirit makers too.
January 2016: Disclaimer – to make this clear, some brewers are not fully commercial yet, some are cuckoo brewers and some are contract brewers. All, some or none of these additional bits of information may or may not be added at some later date, or not. Having said that, some might not even brew in Manchester, this will be edited when confirmed.
3s A Crowd Brewing (Oldham, 2014)
All Gates Brewery (Wigan, 2006)
Alphabet Brewing Co (Manchester, 2014)
Bank Top Brewery (Bolton, 1995)
Beer Nouveau (Manchester, 2014)
Blackedge Brewing Company (Horwich, 2011)
Blackjack Beers Ltd (Manchester, 2012)
Bootleg Brewery (Chorlton, 2005)
BrewShack Brewers (Manchester, 2014)
BrewSmith Beer (Bury, Ramsbottom, 2013)
Brightside Brewing Company Ltd (Bury, 2011)
Burton Road Brewing (Manchester, 2015)
Byrne The Cake Brewing (Levenshulme, Manchester, 2015)
Carbon Smith Brewing (Manchester, via Edinburgh, 2015)
Chorlton Brewing Co. (Manchester, 2014)
Cloudwater Brew Co (Manchester, 2014)
Cryptic Ales (Stockport, 2014)
Dan’s Brewery (Manchester, 2016)
Deeply Vale Brewery (Bury, 2012)
Dunham Massey Brewing Company (Dunham Massey, 2007)
Dunscar Bridge Brewery Limited (Bolton, 2009)
Epicurus Brewery (Denton, via Bolton, 2016)
First Chop Brewing Arm (Salford, 2011)
The First Chop First Chop Brewing Arm
Five-Oh Brew Co (Prestwich, 2013)
Fool Hardy Ales (Stockport, 2013)
The Hope Stockport or Fool Hardy Ales
Four Kings Brewery (Hyde, 2016)
GasWorks BrewBar (Manchester, 2016)
Geipel Brewing (Didsbury; via North Wales/Ohio USA, 2013)
Green Mill Brewery (Rochdale, 2007)
Greenfield Real Ale Brewery Ltd (Greenfield, 2002)
The Hay Rake Brewery Ltd (Littleborough, 2012)
Hexagon Brew Co (Marple, 2015)
Holy Well Brewing Ltd (Bolton, 2015)
Hogarth’s Brew Pub (Bolton, 2014)
Joseph Holt Ltd (Manchester, 1849)
Juggernaut Brew Co (Manchester, 2016)
Hophurst Brewery (Hindley, Wigan, 2014)
Hornbeam Brewery (Denton, 2007)
Hydes’ Brewery Ltd (Manchester, 1863 now Salford from 2012)
Note – Hydes’ also have off-shoot breweries called Provenance and The Beer Studio.
Irwell Works Brewery Ltd (Ramsbottom 2010)
Lancashire Mead Co. (Horwich, 2013)
JW Lees & Co (Brewers) Ltd (Middleton Junction, 1828)
Leyden Brewing Ltd (Nangreaves, 1999)
Leyden Brewing at The Lord Raglan Pub
Manchester Brewing Co (Manchester, 2016)
Manchester Brewing Co (holding page)
Marble Beers Ltd (Manchester, 1998)
Mayflower Brewery (Orrell, 2001)
Mayflower Beer – website not returned
Martland Mill Brewery (Wigan, 2014)
The Millstone Brewery Ltd (Mossley, 2003)
The Moss Cider Project (Manchester, 2010)
Northern Monkey Brew Co (Bolton, 2016)
Northern Monkey Brew Co (FaceBook)
Origami Brewing Company (Manchester, 2016)
Oud Craft Brewery (Chorlton, 2015)
Outstanding Brewing Co Ltd (Bury, 2008)
Phoenix Brewery (Heywood, 1982)
Pictish Brewing Co Ltd (Rochdale, 2000)
Prospect Brewery Ltd (Standish, 2007)
Prospect Brewery (old) Prospect Brewery (new)
Ramsbottom Craft Brewery (Ramsbottom, 2012)
Red Bank Cider (Bolton, 2013)
Remedy Bar & Brewhouse (Stockport, 2015)
Remedy Bar & Brewhouse (Facebook) Remedy Bar & Brewhouse (holding page)
Rising Sun Brewery @ Rising Sun Inn (Mossley, 2016)
Rising Sun Inn & Rising Sun (FaceBook)
Frederic Robinson Ltd (Stockport, 1838)
Roustabout Brewing (Manchester, 2014/2015)
Runaway Brewery (Manchester, 2014)
Saddleworth Brewery (Uppermill, 1997)
Serious Brewing Co (Rochdale, 2015)
Seven Bro7hers Brewery (Salford Quays, 2014)
ShinDigger Brewing Co. (Manchester, 2013)
Soul Doubt Brew Co (Manchester Science Park, 2016)
Silver Street Brewing Co (Bury, 2013)
Silver Street Brewing Co. @ The Clarence
Six O’Clock Beer Co. (Manchester, 2012?)
Squawk Brewing Co (Manchester, 2013)
The Star Brewery (Salford, “2010”)
Stockport Brewing Company (Stockport, Arch 14, 2014)
Stubborn Mule Brewery (Timperley, 2015)
Swindlers Ales (Manchester, 2015)
TicketyBrew (Stalybridge, 2012?)
Thirst Class Ale (Stockport, 2013/14)
Track Brewing Co. (Manchester, 2014)
Tweed Brewing Co (Manchester, 2014)
Vagrant Brewing (Manchester, 2014)
Vinyl Valley Brewing (Manchester, 2016)
Watts Brewing @ The Magnet Freehouse (Stockport, 2014)
Westwood Brewery (Denton, 2016)
Wildside Beers(Manchester, 2016)
Wily Fox Brewery (Wigan, 2015)
Windmill Brewery (Standish, 2016)
Zeitgeist Brew Co (Manchester, 2015)
Zymurgorium (Irlam, 2014)
No Longer in Production/On Hiatus
53 North (Manchester, 2015)
53north.beer (website registration)
Boggart Hole Clough Brewing Company Ltd (Manchester, 2001)
Craftsman Brewery (Manchester Science Park, 2014)
Division Brewing Co. (Manchester, 2015)
Drink Up Brewing (DUB) (Bolton, 2015)
Indy Man Brew House (Manchester, 2014)
Privateer Beers Ltd (Manchester, 2012)
Quantum Brewing Company (Stockport, 2011)
Ringway Brewery Ltd (Reddish, 2012)
Rtwo Dtoo Brewery (The SteamHouse, Urmston, 2013)
Trub Brewing Co. (Manchester, 2015)
Trub Brewing Company (Facebook)
