30 editor picks across United Kingdom.
30 breweries worth the trip across United Kingdom, editor-ranked by TableJourney. All United Kingdom guides.
Pilot Beer brewery on Tennant Street in Leith Edinburgh, founded 2013 by Matt Johnson and Patrick Jones, an industrial-estate craft brewery known for fruited.
TipTaproom takes walk-ins Fri-Sat; the rest of the week is wholesale only. Try the Vienna Lager and the Mochaccino Stout.
Evin O'Riordain's railway-arch brewery in Bermondsey London, founded 2009, the city's most-influential modern craft brewery, runs a Saturday-only retail.
TipSaturday market hours only (09:00-14:00). The bottle shop runs at the arch alongside Mons cheese and Maltby Street market.
Manchester's modern brewing flagship since 2015, on the Piccadilly Trading Estate. Unit 9 taproom: 20 keg lines, walk-in cold store, weekend tours.
Manchester taproom under Piccadilly Station arches. Twenty keg, three cask lines, freshest Track beer plus occasional guest pours, pizza served alongside.
Campervan Brewery on Jane Street in Leith Edinburgh, founded 2015 by Paul Gibson, a homebrew-turned-pro craft brewery with a taproom doubling as a bar.
TipThursdays are pizza-and-pint nights with a fixed deal; the taproom takes walk-ins through to 22:00 most weekends.
Howling Hops's Hackney Wick tank bar in east London, founded 2014, is the UK's first dedicated tank bar with ten stainless-steel tanks pouring unfiltered.
TipOpen daily from midday. Live music Fridays from 20:30 and vinyl DJs Saturdays from 20:00. Latin-fusion kitchen runs through the day.
Salford brewery on Coral Street. Pomona Island's pales and dark beers are the regulars' pour at Manchester pubs; taproom open Friday and Saturday only here.
Moonwake Beer Co on Tower Street by the Shore in Leith Edinburgh, a brewery and taproom pouring its own range plus rotating guest beers in a colourful.
TipTaproom is open Thursday to Sunday only; the Saturday session runs from midday and the outdoor yard fills first on a sunny afternoon.
Bundobust's own brewery, taproom and restaurant on Oxford Street, Manchester. Located in Oxford Road. At St James Building. Booking recommended.
Bristol Beer Factory brews Independence, CAMRA's Champion Beer of Britain 2026, from the old Ashton Gate brewery buildings behind North Street.
TipIndependence won Champion Beer of Britain in 2026; drink it at the Grain Barge or the North Street taproom.
Wiper and True pours Kaleidoscope pale ale and its barrel experiments at a glass-walled Old Market taproom, Bristol brewing at its most polished and precise.
TipKaleidoscope pale ale is the benchmark first order; the St Werburghs barrel store hosts occasional special releases.
Lost and Grounded brews Bristol's benchmark lagers with German precision on Whitby Road, the brewery that made slow beer cool in a hop-mad city.
TipThe lagers headline most good Bristol taps; the taproom runs 45-minute brewery tours on Saturdays from 14:00, with weekend street food alongside.
Manchester's Cloudwater Brew Co opened this Bermondsey railway-arch tap on Enid Street in 2019; 20 keg lines plus one cask handpump on the Beer Mile.
TipClosed Monday. Friday afternoon and Saturday are the busiest crawl windows; arrive before 15:00 Saturday for a seat. Cloudwater can-art banners mark it.
Piccadilly East taproom five minutes from Piccadilly station, run by Cloudwater alumni James Campbell. Hop-forward pales and IPAs the house style.
Left Handed Giant's riverside brewpub brews upstairs and pours downstairs at Finzels Reach, the city-centre face of a Bristol brewery born in 2015.
TipThe group also runs Small Bar on King Street and a St Philips taproom; the brewpub kitchen does proper pizzas.
Newbarns Brewery on Jane Street in Leith Edinburgh, founded 2020 by Chris Lewis and Emma Skoda, a saison and modern lager brewery known. At Unit 7.
TipThe taproom is two doors down from Campervan; you can crawl between four breweries in 500 metres on Jane Street.
Drygate is a craft brewery, bar and kitchen beside Tennent's on Glasgow's east side, with 23 taps, a view into the brewhouse and an upstairs beer hall.
TipThe upstairs beer hall and terrace are more relaxed than the ground-floor brasserie; both look into the brewery.
Manchester craft brewery and taproom on Castle Street. American Brown and Smoked Porter the year-round flagships; farmhouse and sour series on rotation.
Moor Beer pioneered unfined, vegan-friendly live beer and pours it seven days a week at its Days Road brewery tap behind Bristol Temple Meads.
TipThe taproom sits an eight-minute walk from Temple Meads, making it the classic pre-train pint of the Bristol beer set.
Stewart Brewing in Loanhead on the south edge of Edinburgh, founded 2004 by Steve and Jo Stewart, a craft brewery running a Craft Beer Kitchen with public.
TipTheir Craft Beer Kitchen runs public sessions for brewing your own pint; book ahead by a fortnight via their website.
WEST brews German-style lagers to the Bavarian purity law in the landmark Templeton building on Glasgow Green, a vast beer hall, bar and riverside garden.
TipThe beer garden on Glasgow Green is one of the city's biggest; the St Mungo lager is the flagship pour.
Shilling Brewing Co is a city-centre brewpub in a former bank on West George Street, Glasgow, pouring 30-plus taps of its own beer alongside wood-fired pizza.
TipIt brews on-site in the old bank hall; the pizzas from Roberto the pizzaiolo are the food to order with a flight.
Edward Mason and Greg Hobbs's Five Points Brewing brewery taproom on Mare Street in Hackney London, founded 2013, runs a railway-arch tap with Five Points.
TipThe arch has outdoor seats. Friday evening fills with the Hackney Central commuter crowd; Saturday afternoon walks in any time.
Family-run craft brewery on Hewitt Street, Manchester, with seven brothers behind the name. Beerhouse taproom, pizza counter, fruit-beer collabs daily.
Arbor Ales has brewed an ever-changing small-batch range in Easton since 2007, from its long-running Shangri-La pale to one-off experiments.
TipLook for Arbor lines at the Volunteer Tavern and Gloucester Road pubs; the brewery itself is mostly a shop stop.
Good Chemistry brews balanced modern beers on William Street in St Philips, opening its friendly Bristol taproom on Fridays and Saturdays only.
TipThe weekend-only taproom keeps it special; their Kokomo Weekday session IPA is the local fridge staple.
Manchester's Green Quarter brewery on Gould Street. Stouts and porters are the year-round house style; the taproom rotates a guest beer or two weekly here.
New Bristol Brewery pours its playful small-batch beers from a working taproom on Wilson Street in St Pauls, ice cream pale ales and imperial stouts included.
TipThe Thursday to Sunday taproom is family-run and casual; look for the Joy of Sesh session ale on cask.
Fierce & Noble brews and pours on Mina Road in St Werburghs, the neighbourhood taproom a dumpling's throw from Clouds in north-east Bristol.
TipPair a taproom session with dinner at Clouds up the road; the core IPA is the safe first pint.
Little Martha brews in a Totterdown railway arch on Oxford Street, a Bristol microbrewery taproom sharing its lane with the FCP roastery bar.
TipThe arch sits next to Full Court Press's roastery bar, making Oxford Street a two-stop caffeine-then-cask lane.
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