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Manchester Beer & Cider Festival to be bigger and better than ever

The big one is back at Manchester Central this January as plans for the seventh Manchester Beer and Cider Festival (MBCF) take shape.

Running from Thursday 23rd to Saturday 25th (with a preview evening for CAMRA members on 22nd), the festival will be the biggest yet. The festival is known for its innovation, with traditional and modern beer styles showcased side by side up here in Manchester well before the Great British Beer Festival in London took the keg plunge last month. Multiple bars give drinkers overwhelming choice, but each part of the event is reviewed to present improvements.

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Customers crown the best beer, cider and perry

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North Yorkshire’s Brass Castle brewery recorded an astonishing double success, with two of its brews topping the poll of visitors’ choices.

The brewery has been successful in attracting the popular vote before, but it it is the first time in #MBCF’s history that any brewery has had two beers in the top three.

Brass Castle Fruit Lupe

It was perhaps even more remarkable as a new beer launched at the festival proved the customers’ favourite. Fruit Lupe, a 4.8% ABV single hop pale ale was available in both cask-conditioned and keg styles and drinkers clearly enjoyed the marriage of Mosaic hops with blueberry. Like all Brass Castle’s beers, Fruit Lupe is suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

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Not just here for the beer…..

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Here at the Manchester Beer and Cider Festival not only is there the largest collection of ciders and perries in the North of England, but there is also the largest collection of ciders and perries made in the north of England all together.

15 makers, 5 counties, 28 ciders, 3 perries. These ciders and perries are amongst a line up of just over 100 from all over the country.

These Northerly producers are represented specifically because The Manchester Beer and Cider Festival hosts the North of England Cider and Perry Competition each year, bringing together makers from Cheshire, Yorkshire, Manchester, Lancashire, Northumberland, Durham, Merseyside, and Cumbria.

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