SEASONAL BEVS IN MANCHESTER’S BEST BEER GARDEN
Friday 30 June – Sunday 2 July
Kampus, Manchester

Everyone’s favourite seasonal ale event (and our little sister), Summer Beer Thing will return once again in 2023, taking place 30th June to 2nd July.

As well as it being summer (naturally), and serving our favourite beer (as you’d expect), we’ll have plenty of things on – including food vendors, wine bars, pop-up tastings, DJs, live music, and more. We’ll be announcing them all soon – follow them on social media here, or visit the website at summerbeerthing.com.

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It has been a week since we opened our doors for Independent Manchester Beer Convention 2022 (where does the time go), and while we’ve spent most of it trying to muster the energy to get out from under the duvet after a hectic few weeks, we’re already starting to look to the future. For that, though, we need your feedback on this year’s festival – so if you visited, we’d love to hear your thoughts.

Fill out the form below and, in addition to shaping the future of IMBC, you’ll also be in with a shout of being the first person to have tickets for next year’s event too – every valid response will get you one entry into a draw for 2 x Indy Man 2023 tickets, plus £25 worth of tokens each too.

Entries will close 23.59pm on Thursday 20th October – click the link below, or fill out the form to enter.

Click here to fill out our visitor survey.

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HOPS ARE GREEN.

With sustainability being one of the main themes of this year’s IMBC, we sent our Iwan out to answer some of the big questions. Accompanied by Gulp magazine they visited our good friends at Cloudwater, DEYA, and JW Lees, as well as chatting to some other industry heads such as our own Jonathan Heyes and Adam Peirce of the Sustainable Materials Institute Hub, before standing on some hills. Together, they look at the future of brewing, and what that looks like in a environment where everything is getting more challenging, and the world is going to pot.

Watch it on YouTube here, or stream below.

Join us in the atrium of activity that is our beer warehouse at IMBC 22 as we lay on a selection of very special tastings. Reserve your places via the links below. Tickets cost £10 and include all drinks at the tasting. Expect tastings to last around 20 – 30 minutes.

Please note that tasting tickets are only valid for ticket holders to that specific session. If you don’t have a ticket for the session, please do not purchase a tasting ticket.

Scroll down for some special events that SIREN are running throughout, and keep your eyes peeled for completely free pop-up tastings across the course of the festival.

Oh, and we’re also pleased to announce that FREDERIKSDAL will now be joining us for the entire festival. Joy of joys!

Individual day tastings

Each ticketed tasting costs £9 advance, and if they have not sold out before your session, tickets can be purchased at the festival at the token desk for £10: booking now is strongly advised.

THURSDAY

Ticketed tastings
Steve Grossman of Sierra Nevada – BUY TICKETS HERE
A member of the founding family of Sierra Nevada joins us as he talks you through each of the cask single dry-hopped variants of Pale Ale, as well as the company itself.
Warehouse, 7pm

FRIDAY DAY

Ticketed tastings
Kirkstall present The Randonneur Triple Crown Luxury Tasting Experience: The Rando, Grand Rando, and Barrel Aged Grand Rando – BUY TICKETS HERE
Yorkshire legends offer three of their rarest beers for your delectation. Three variations on a theme, giving you the full Rando experience – Kirkstall’s own classic Belgian Blonde.
Warehouse, 2pm

FRIDAY NIGHT

Ticketed tastings
3 Fonteinen – BUY TICKETS HERE
Almost everyone’s favourite geuzestekerijen, 3 Fonteinen have been blending lambics with fruit and creating gueuze since they opened their original cafe in 1887. Hands down the most interesting and complex amongst the handful of classic blenders and brewers to occupy the golden lambic homeland Pajottenland near Brussels 3 fonteninen blend lambic from classical neighbours and brew their own wort as well – and they’ll be talking you through some of their finest.
Warehouse, 7pm
Frederiksdal – BUY TICKETS HERE
Denmark’s multi-award winning producers of cherry wine. We thought that travel limitations meant that they’d only be at Friday & Saturday sessions of the festival – but now they’ll be with us for the entire thing! Only using cherries grown on their own estate, Frederiksdal started almost by accident in 2016, and have become beloved of both craft beer drinkers and wine lovers , and will be talking you through their range
Warehouse, 8pm

SATURDAY DAY

Ticketed tastings
Unity Brewing – May Provisions – BUY TICKETS HERE
A walk on the wildside of unity brewing’s new project with some special beers femented with wild yeast sourced from Charlie Herring wines grape skins. A graf (cider/ale hybrid), a wild ale aged on riesling skins, a rye saison and a brett IPA based on the lockdown WC IPA collab with Zapato which has made a welcome return for this years festival!
Warehouse, 2pm

SATURDAY EVENING

Ticketed tastings
Frederiksdal – BUY TICKETS HERE
Denmark’s multi-award winning producers of cherry wine. We thought that travel limitations meant that they’d only be at Friday & Saturday sessions of the festival – but now they’ll be with us for the entire thing! Only using cherries grown on their own estate, Frederiksdal started almost by accident in 2016, and have become beloved of both craft beer drinkers and wine lovers , and will be talking you through their range
Warehouse, 7pm
Unity Brewing – May Provisions – BUY TICKETS HERE
A walk on the wildside of unity brewing’s new project with some special beers femented with wild yeast sourced from Charlie Herring wines grape skins. A graf (cider/ale hybrid), a wild ale aged on riesling skins, a rye saison and a brett IPA based on the lockdown WC IPA collab with Zapato which has made a welcome return for this years festival!
Warehouse, 8pm
Pop-up Tastings
Stay tuned at the festival for pop-up tastings: look for the pop-up tastings sign.

SUNDAY

Ticketed tastings
3 Fonteinen – BUY TICKETS HERE
Almost everyone’s favourite geuzestekerijen, 3 Fonteinen have been blending lambics with fruit and creating gueuze since they opened their original cafe in 1887. Hands down the most interesting and complex amongst the handful of classic blenders and brewers to occupy the golden lambic homeland Pajottenland near Brussels 3 Fonteinen blend lambic from classical neighbours and brew their own wort as well – and they’ll be talking you through some of their finest.
Warehouse, 2pm
Pastore – BUY TICKETS HERE
IndyMan first timers developing a classy line up of fruited wild and mixed ferm beers, who’ll be talking you through three of their finest – Wild Limone, Montone e Capra, and Sake Kasu Beer – with more about their ethos as a brewery. Unmissable.
Warehouse, 3pm

EVERY DAY / SESSION

Siren

These are unticketed – just pop along to their bar to see them

Caribbean Chocolate Cake pairing
Thursday, Friday Night, & Saturday 8pm; Friday Day, Saturday Day, Sunday 2pm
Free pairing for the first 50 to get themselves to Siren: choose classic CCC and get a brownie, or get a blondie when you get CCC Pancake. Purchase of beer required.

MEXspresso Martinis
Thursday, Friday Night, & Saturday 8pm; Friday Day, Saturday Day, Sunday 2pm
Siren will be turning the Mole version of CCC into a MEXpresso Martini – limited availability, expect queues.

Death By Beer Spike
Thursday, Friday Night, & Saturday 8pm; Friday Day, Saturday Day, Sunday 2pm
Siren heat up a bit metal rod, then stir it into CCC Death By. You think we’re joking? Check this out. Limited availability, expect queues.

Pool Parti Boilermakers
Available all IMBC
Siren’s IMBC special Pool Parti, but upgraded to a boilermaker. Available all through IMBC, or as long as stocks last.