Manchester craft beer venues
Balance Brewing & Blending Taproom
Unit 10, Sheffield Street, Manchester M1 2ND
Manchester's specialist mixed-culture brewery: barrel-fermented wild and sour beers made with British, often foraged, ingredients, poured at source alongside guest pales, lagers and cider. Open Thursday 5pm–10pm, Friday 2pm–10pm, Saturday noon–10pm, Sunday 2pm–8pm.
Café Beermoth
Brown Street, Manchester M2 1DA
Central Manchester CAMRA's Pub of the Year 2026: rotating cask and keg from the UK, Belgium, Germany and beyond, a house cask pale (Stone's Throw, brewed with Stockport's Runaway) and a permanent draught line of Augustiner Lagerbier Hell. Since January 2026 the Beermoth bottle shop is under the same roof, with more than 450 bottles and cans to drink in or take away. Open Monday 3pm–10pm, Tuesday to Thursday noon–11pm, Friday and Saturday noon–midnight, Sunday noon–10pm.
Cloudwater Brewery Taproom
Unit 9, Piccadilly Trading Estate, Gidding Road, Manchester M1 2NP
Cloudwater's taproom beside its brewery behind Piccadilly station: 20 draught lines and two cask, all drawn from a 3°C cold store under the mezzanine, plus barrel-aged releases, a shop and street-food traders most Fridays to Sundays. Open Monday to Thursday 2pm–10pm, Friday and Saturday noon–10pm, Sunday noon–8pm.
Fell Northern Quarter
35 Dale Street, Manchester M1 2HF
Cumbrian brewery Fell's city taproom: its full range plus guest lines, more than 50 ciders and over 50 whiskies, including independent bottlings. Open Monday and Tuesday 2pm–10pm, Wednesday noon–10pm, Thursday to Saturday noon–midnight, Sunday noon–10pm.
North Westward Ho
19 Chapel Walks, Manchester M2 1HN
Pomona Island Brewery's city-centre pub, tucked down Chapel Walks: 18 keg and five cask lines of Pomona Island and guest beers, German lager, Belgian ales, mixed-fermentation beers and British cider, plus natural wine and spritzes. Open Monday 2pm–11pm, Tuesday to Thursday noon–midnight, Friday and Saturday noon–2am, Sunday noon–11pm.
Northern Monk Refectory MCR
10 Tariff Street, Manchester M1 2FF
The Leeds brewery's Northern Quarter taproom in a listed mill building: 20 keg and four cask lines of fresh Northern Monk (Faith and Eternal among them) plus guests, Ayinger Helles as the house lager, and Cardinal Rule's Southern-style biscuits. Open Monday noon–10pm, Tuesday and Wednesday noon–11pm, Thursday noon–midnight, Friday noon–1am, Saturday 11am–1am, Sunday 11am–10pm.
Port Street Beer House
39–41 Port Street, Manchester M1 2EQ
Northern Quarter institution since 2011 ('Home of the pint, land of the third'): 18 keg and seven cask lines plus hundreds of bottles and cans from Manchester, the UK and abroad. Its owners also run the Indy Man Beer Con festival. Open Sunday to Thursday noon–11pm, Friday and Saturday noon–midnight.
Steelfish Brewing Company Taproom
108 Temperance Street, Manchester M12 6HR
Small, beer-first brewery taproom that opened in December 2025 and was named Best Newcomer 2026 by Central Manchester CAMRA. Three cask and six keg lines of Steelfish beer and local guests, a well-stocked fridge, and huge cheese butties and sausage rolls until they run out. CAMRA lists Thursday 6pm–10pm, Friday 2pm–10pm, Saturday 1pm–10pm, Sunday 2pm–8pm.
Sureshot Taproom
4 Sheffield Street, Manchester M1 2ND
Railway-arch taproom under Piccadilly station, next door to the Sureshot brewery founded by ex-Marble and Cloudwater brewer James Campbell. At least ten keg lines and two cask, new releases every Wednesday, DJs and big-screen sport, with Nell's pizza to collect from a couple of doors down. The taproom's current timetable is Monday to Thursday 5pm–10pm, Friday and Saturday noon–midnight, Sunday noon–10pm.
The Marble Arch
73 Rochdale Road, Manchester M4 4HY
Grade II-listed 1888 pub with a famously sloping mosaic floor and a tiled, barrel-vaulted ceiling, and the original home of Marble Brewery (now brewing in Salford). Nine handpulls of brewery-fresh cask, eight keg lines, artisan cider, a hidden beer garden and a well-regarded kitchen, including Sunday roasts. Open Monday and Wednesday noon–10pm, Thursday and Friday noon–11pm, Saturday 11am–11pm, Sunday 11am–9pm (last orders).
Track Brewing Co Brewery & Taproom
Unit 18, Piccadilly Trading Estate, Manchester M1 2NP
Big, bright taproom inside Track's working brewery, across the road from Cloudwater: 20 keg and three cask lines of its freshest beer (Sonoma pale ale is the classic), a beer garden, and Slice Culture pizza made on site. Saturday-morning brewery tours with a straight-from-the-tank pour. Open Friday and Saturday noon–10pm, Sunday noon–8pm, and from 2pm on weekdays.