10 Best Breweries and Beer Places in Farnworth

"A local gem, located in the Baltic Triangle, Love Lane Brewery is continuing to offer up their innovative brews during the pandemic, with a whole host of new beers available to try. Some brews have emerged in time for winter, known as Sgt Peppermint, which will be available online from Friday 20 November. The brewery is well known for its innovative flavours and has concocted this winter warming brew, a stout which tastes like mint choc chip ice cream and it’s 12%!"

"Located in the trendy Baltic Triangle area, Love Lane Brewery is a city centre brewery and distilery, producing Higson’s Ales and Pilsner, Love Lane beers and The Ginsmiths of Liverpool gins (Dry Gin, Merchant Navy Gin and Marshmellow Gin). With a delicious food menu and ample seating space, talk to the team about how you can create your perfect evening (or lunch) event with a difference!. Visit their website for more information."

"You’ll have to recreate the superb customer service and great atmosphere in your own home, but Black Lodge Brewery can still provide the fantastic selection of real ales for all tastes. This treasured microbrewery based in the Baltic Triangle, are delivering cans and mini-kegs, with a limited number of free delivery services available. Find out more atblacklodgebrewing.co.uk/store."

"Sarah Hyde is an Institute of Beer & Distilling accredited Beer Sommelier and has just launched a series of beer tours in Liverpool under the UK Brewery Tours umbrella. The Microbrewery Experience Tour takes in some of the best venues within the Baltic Triangle. You’ll get to meet the brewers, sample beers and come face-to-face with the brewery equipment."

"The Liverpool brewery has helped get us through the past few months with their beer deliveries but nothing quite beats a refreshing pint of craft beer out in the sunshine. Black Lodge Brewery is back pulling pints, plus they’ll be serving some damn good burgers and buffalo wings too. Black Lodge Brewery, 3 Kings Dock Street, L1 8JU"

"Once upon a time, a group of Liverpudlians went to Texas and fell in love with the rough ’n’ ready craft beer scene state-side and decided to bring a taste of it back to the motherland. With a strong belief that there’s a beer out there for everyone, these guys boast twenty rotating taps in a gloriously laid-back (and most importantly: dog-friendly) venue. As part of the Stone Berlin Cornerstone Bar project, the Dead Crafty Beer gang have access to some of the rarest small batch kegs just waiting to be sampled."

"Only a short walk to the next destination on our Liverpool real ale trail and its into the Dead Crafty Beer co. These guys know there is a beer out there for everyone and make it their mission to bring it to you in simplistic style. By supporting local Liverpool breweries and beer related events, as well as importing rare and never before chugged bottles and ales from around the globe, Dead Crafty Beer Co. earned the title of Liverpool’s Favourite Bar at the Liverpool Food and Drink awards."

"This bar is truly at the cutting edge of the craft beer scene. You’ll be sure to find some rare gems from across the pond as well as some incredibly delicious local beers on offer. Dead Crafty has built up some impressive relationships over the 3 ½ years they have been open."

"Chester Market won best small indoor market at the Great British market awards 2020 and we couldn’t be more proud!. It boasts a wonderful variety of unusual and traditional stalls you’re unlikely to find on the high street alongside an awesome range of delicious and nutritious food options with a central dining area perfectly situated for people watching. If you’re feeling like a glass of wine whilst browsing what the market has to offer, Vinological is a very popular independent wine merchant, deli and wine bar offering high quality wines by the glass or bottle at great value prices."

"Open Monday to Saturday, Chester Market is Chester’s only street food hub. Enjoy cuisines from across the globe or a refreshing craft beer in a relaxed, communal setting; or grab yourself some locally sourced fresh food from the local fishmonger and butcher. You can also do a spot of shopping for more than just food and drink, with everything from books and vinyl to clothing and footwear."

"This butchers on Chester's Garden Lane are offering free delivery of their products to customers around Chester. Join our Coronavirus in Cheshire - updates and advice Facebook group. To keep up to date with accurate information and advice on coronavirus in Cheshire, you can join our Coronavirus in Cheshire - updates and advice Facebook group."

"Unusually colourful (its orange banquettes and Perspex back-bar give it a look of a 1980s Top of the Pops set), this Dale Street tap-house serves a mix of quality guest beers (Wild Beer, Mikeller, Burning Sky), and Beatnikz’ hop-forward brews, such as I Smash Citra and Generation IPA. The weekday cask ale deals are notable (recently pie ‘n’ a pint £5, Mon/Tues), as is Beatnikz’s ability to bag high-profile guests for its meet-the-brewer events. For instance Arbor Ales and US star Modern Times. Pint from £3.70, beatnikzrepublic.com"

"Beatnikz microbrewery is located in a railway arch in the Green Quarter, and their taproom used to be too. But they closed it last year and moved to a shiny new bar in the Northern Quarter where they’ve just introduced a beer slushie machine. Head in to enjoy their core range of beers."

"This 13th-century church about a mile north of Macclesfield is the fourth church on this site. But what’s unusual is that the third church is still here, out among Medieval yew trees. There’s a Norman Romanesque chapel in the churchyard, dating to the 12th century, with semi-circular door and window arches and weathered but visible tympanum relief and lozenge patterns in the archivolts."

"Greens is regarded as Manchester’s flagship vegetarian eatery, winning multiple awards such as Manchester Food and Drink Awards (2000, 2003, 2006, 2008) and the prestigious title of AA Rosette in 2000. The restaurant was created by Simon Connolly and Simon Rimmer – who is now a very popular TV celebrity chef – and was founded to be a vegetarian venue with ‘scrumptious dishes and exciting ingredients that aren’t 10 years behind the best restaurants in town’. Now one of the highlights of Manchester’s culinary landscape, the restaurant serves imaginative plates bursting with flavour that are made using fresh local ingredients."

"Greens is an unmissable spot helmed by TV chef Simon Rimmer. This lively West Didsbury restaurant is celebrated by those who know that you don't need meat to have a gastronomical feast; expect food packed with flavour and assembled with local, fresh and seasonal produce."

"The oldest and best vegetarian restaurant in the city.Why go?. It was set up by celebrity chef Simon Rimmer back when he was all chef, no celebrity. He and business partner Simon Connolly ensure that food is delicious and the atmosphere is relaxed."

"The Trafford Ecology Park is tucked away in the industrial Trafford Park behind an oil depot and is a registered Biological Important site and a true oasis of wildlife. The park is spread across an area of eleven acres and is a true delight for a nature enthusiast."