The Salford-based Pomona Island Brewing company have not quite been in business for 3 years but are already making waves with their bold approach to packaging (see photos) and nostalgia and pop-culture beer name references.  The substance behind the style certainly stacks up too, with them making beers in styles that they themselves like to drink.

Do yourself a favour and grab a few beers from them; you can obtain them right here from their webstore if you need a bit of help.  You can then sup a few beers and enjoy some of their track choices on our playlist and find out a little bit more about them and their set up from 7pm on Twitter.  Head over, follow both the Liverpool Beer Collective and the fantastic Pomona Island to find out more! 

The all important playlist is right here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBvXyqmy0uv1x5RP3WVJF1oeiCCp7vkr1

As ever, hit play at 7pm to be synchronised!!

Keep an eye on the webshop over the course of the week, as the brewery are about to release a new coffee stout and Double IPA, which will be available for shipping around Thursday/Friday.

​Stay twitchy!!

Photographs used courtesy of Kevin Fenton.

This week, we are heading back locally and have the 2018 Ratebeer Best Merseyside brewery winning, nautically named Neptune Brewery ready to spread some joy and good vibes during our next session.  The Neptune gang are in the throes of celebrating their 5th year of operations and have just released four great collaboration brews to celebrate this milestone. 

​The Maghull based outfit have brewed with namesake Neptune's Brewery based across the pond, Marble Brewery, Anarchy Brew Co and brilliant previous hosts, Anspach & Hobday.  They have also been getting some great core range stuff back into cans and 5L mini-kegs over the lockdown, which have been flying out of their brewery tap.

​As ever, you can follow the chatter, good vibes and playlist of the #livebeerpub on the Liverpool Beer Collective and Neptune Brewery Twitter accounts.

You can also tune in at 7pm sharp on our playlist to which Neptune have contributed and is linked up right here.
Neptune Brewery have also dropped some of their choices onto a Spotify playlist which has most of the tunes from the playlist on: 
​https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20s8hzfre7FRIoZeVxQhru?si=cqD-3fD1SoCEbIwxE0Tqhg

As an added bonus, there will be a bit of a giveaway on the night too!  Neptune have very kindly offered to give away two 5-litre mini casks, one cask of the lovely Shifting Sands, their delicious Session IPA and one of Ezili, their amazing pale ale (UK delivery only we're afraid).  Details and competition information will be given out on the night!!

In other developing news from Neptune, you'll need to keep an eye on their website in the run up to this session of the #livebeerpub as they are getting a webstore up and running.  It is due for completion at some point this week (slated for 27th May 2020).  

Once the lockdown is ended too, they have a lovely new layout and finish on their Taproom based in Maghull's Sefton Meadows which is well worth a visit on any trip over to Liverpool!

That's right, part 8 sees the UK brewing titans that are Northern Monk joining us to provide you with some distractions, chatter and all round wholesome beery entertainment from 7pm onwards on Saturday 23rd May.

In terms of what's available for you in the run up to Saturday evening, Northern Monk's founder and director, Brian Dickson furnished us with some information: 

"There’s an offer on 6-packs of our new Great Northern Lager on the webshop currently and we’re doing some introductory mixed packs entitled ‘into the haze’ and ‘northern heroes’ made up of some of our core beers, which might be good introductions to NM for any newbies. The latest Patrons release is “Déjà vu”, a peach and apricot sour in the Lucy Ketchin series, which was brewed by distant collaboration with Garage (Barcelona), Frontaal (NL) and Pastore Brewing."

There will also be a launch the first couple of beers in the new OFS series - some unique, experimental beers brewed on Northern Monk's original Old Flax Store kit.  So far they have the following lined up; OFS 000 which is a coconut imperial stout and 001 which is a mango & cacao sour. 

For that ever important playlist, put together by the LBC Committee and a hefty slice from the Northern Monk crew, here is the link: Right Here!!

Buy Northern Monk gear here: https://northernmonkshop.com/
Follow Northern Monk's feed on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/NMBCo

Yup, it might have sneaked out at some point due to scurrilous rumours and veiled Twitter messages, but the latest #livebeerpub we do indeed have the mighty Thornbridge Brewery joining us on the 16th May!

I know, right? How exciting is that?

So, we'll be breaking out a few beers we've had squirrelled away at LBC HQ.  We have been big fans of their Great British Homebrew Competition winning brews; the likes of Raindrops on Roses, Vienna IPA, Rhubarbe De Saison and Mr Smith Gose To Market as well as massive beers like Serpent, Love Among the Ruins and Eldon.

As ever, we have a guest, as mentioned above.  This week it will be Sheffield outfit Hop Hideout that will be joining us for a bit of a Q&A session and they will be providing us with some choice selections for our new playlist, which will go live just before we get started. 

At the moment, Hop Hideout are back up and running and doing mail order deliveries of beer and local delivery, they have full details right here on their website: https://www.hophideout.co.uk/ - please do give it a read if you're looking to make an order!  For the actual shop, they have an extensive list of canned and bottled beers, as well as a selection of natural wine and glassware.  That's all right here: https://www.hophideout.co.uk/shop-home.

As part of the #livebeerpub fun, you can use this for a handy 10% discount on your order, expires on Monday: LIVEBEERPUB10.  Or Hope Hideout have a standard free postage over £50: FREEPOST50.   Please note, you can’t use both at same time though, only one code can be redeemed per order.  Mail orders are shipped every Friday at moment (with boxes received Mon/Tues), usually costing around £7.95 for a case of 24 beers.

For the playlist, hit play at 7pm promptly to sync up with the rest of the #livebeerpub! 

Here's the link for the playlist...
[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBvXyqmy0uv0p-Tf1F0ssPBXVsQrnuDD7]

Remember - no peeking before 7pm!!

ALSO....

As part of the #livebeerpub fun, we have a bit of a quiz for you to participate in.  Rules are very simple...

- There are 20 Questions
- After a given song on the playlist is announced via a tweet, we have questions related to the song, artist or title which we will tweet with immediately after the song is announced
- We will give the point from each question to the quickest person to answer (direct reply to the question) and keep a tally
- We're trusting you not to cheat and use search engines to answer!

There's no prizes per se, only the glory and spoils of pride to the quickest brain with the broadest knowledge.

Good luck!

​For those who've not joined us for a #livebeerpub before, here's what to do to get involved:

Have yourself a Twitter account ideally, sign in, make sure you’re following our account and look out for tweets using the hashtag ‘#livebeerpub’.  We’ll be around to have a chat about all things beery or otherwise, plenty of the LBC Committee will be around hopefully to have a chat.  We can provide information on what you can do to provide support to Merseyside (or other) breweries and pubs during this difficult time.  Get hold of some lovely beers (especially any from our Merseyside brewers!) from a local bottle shop, via delivery from a pub or brewery or take advantage of growler/package fills as appropriate. 

For nationwide, the teamwork from Art By Volume and #CraftBeerHour has given us these resources: List [https://www.craftbeerhour.com/where-to-buy-beer-remotely] and a handy UK Map [http://abvstudio.co.uk/beer-map].  The crew over at Brewer's Eye also have a handy map and handle on what is going on with their App.
 
Grab your beer, take a photo of it, talk about it and interact with like minded people in lieu of bumping into them in our pubs, bottle shops and brewery taps.  We will be kicking things off at 7pm if people want to join us (until 11pm or so).

​
See you all on Twitter at 7pm on Saturday 25th April.

The Committee x.

Step forward, relative newcomers to the Liverpool beer scene Carnival Brewing!

You can read a bit more about them right here: 
http://electrokemist.weebly.com/blogs/carnival-brewing-launch

They are up and running with canning and are currently doing crowler deliveries on many of their draught beers , fresh from the brewery.  You can head to their shop and place an order, right here: www.carnivalbrewing.me/shop - delivery is available and shipping via APC within circumstances as laid out on the page. Order quick to get your beers in time for the weekend.

As ever, they'll be joining us for a bit of a Q&A session and they will be providing us with some ammunition for the new playlist, which will go live, as ever just before we start.  Hit play at 7pm promptly to sync up with the rest of the #livebeerpub! 

Here's the link for the playlist...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBvXyqmy0uv2DFTo2kYKsa1EBIvrohusJ 

Remember - no peeking before 7pm!!

For those who've not joined us for a #livebeerpub before, here's what to do to get involved:

Have yourself a Twitter account ideally, sign in, make sure you’re following our account and look out for tweets using the hashtag ‘#livebeerpub’.  We’ll be around to have a chat about all things beery or otherwise, plenty of the LBC Committee will be around hopefully to have a chat.  We can provide information on what you can do to provide support to Merseyside (or other) breweries and pubs during this difficult time.  Get hold of some lovely beers (especially any from our Merseyside brewers!) from a local bottle shop, via delivery from a pub or brewery or take advantage of growler/package fills as appropriate. 

For nationwide, the teamwork from Art By Volume and #CraftBeerHour has given us these resources: List [https://www.craftbeerhour.com/where-to-buy-beer-remotely] and a handy UK Map [http://abvstudio.co.uk/beer-map].  The crew over at Brewer's Eye also have a handy map and handle on what is going on with their App.
 
Grab your beer, take a photo of it, talk about it and interact with like minded people in lieu of bumping into them in our pubs, bottle shops and brewery taps.  We will be kicking things off at 7pm if people want to join us (until 11pm or so).

​
See you all on Twitter at 7pm on Saturday 18th April.

The Committee x

We've had a very pleasing uptake on the movement since it's launch a couple of weeks ago and are going to continue things in the same vein.  Chatter about beers we're enjoying alongside an amusing playlist put together by the Committee and by some friends from breweries.

This time, we have some select jams picked out for us by the lovely folk over at Anspach & Hobday.  The Bermondsey (and Croydon) based brewers have recently started canning and we've managed to snag some beers in time for the pub.  We're expecting some enjoyable gear for our ears once again on Saturday night!  So if you have any questions for the guys, please fire away on Saturday evening on Twitter and hopefully they'll get back to you.

Anspach & Hobday are now delivering nationwide too, so if you want any of their beers, just pop along to https://www.anspachandhobday.com/shop and have a gander.  They even have an offer and free delivery available (on offers over £40).

Please tweet us @livbeerco and use the hashtag #livebeerpub in every tweet involved in the proceedings and we'll be sure to chat with you.

Here's the playlist link, ready for you (available just before 7pm on Saturday 4th April):
[www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKvLB9P1ZoA&list=PLBvXyqmy0uv0rsxT_ovTItFOoa8jQiiQV]
Don't hit start until 7pm sharp!!

We've had a very pleasing uptake on the movement since it's launch a couple of weeks ago and are going to continue things in the same vein.  Chatter about beers we're enjoying alongside an amusing playlist put together by the Committee and by some friends from breweries.

This time, we're luck enough to have some choices from the gang at Black Lodge Brewery and from Technical Brewer, Jack Walker over at Love Lane Brewery.  We're expecting some eclectic stuff once again for this session!

Please tweet us @livbeerco and use the hashtag #livebeerpub in every tweet involved in the proceedings and we'll be sure to chat with you.

Here's the playlist link, ready for you (available just before 7pm on Saturday 4th April):
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDuzro5jBcI&list=PLBvXyqmy0uv1LOYQYcAEbe-bE4Rxw3EIz]

For those who've not participated before.... here's a brief explanation of what to do to get involved:

Have yourself a Twitter account ideally, sign in, make sure you’re following our account and look out for tweets using the hashtag ‘#livebeerpub’.  We’ll be around to have a chat about all things beery or otherwise, plenty of the LBC Committee will be around hopefully to have a chat.  We can provide information on what you can do to provide support to Merseyside (or other) breweries and pubs during this difficult time.  Get hold of some lovely beers (especially any from our Merseyside brewers!) from a local bottle shop, via delivery from a pub or brewery or take advantage of growler/package fills as appropriate. 

For nationwide, the teamwork from Art By Volume and #CraftBeerHour has given us these resources: List [https://www.craftbeerhour.com/where-to-buy-beer-remotely] and a handy UK Map [http://abvstudio.co.uk/beer-map].
 
Grab your beer, take a photo of it, talk about it and interact with like minded people in lieu of bumping into them in our pubs, bottle shops and brewery taps.  We will be kicking things off at 7pm if people want to join us (until 11pm or so).

If you're looking for some local beers with immediacy, then luckily, both Black Lodge and Love Lane are in stock and delivering at the moment...

Order online:

https://www.blacklodgebrewing.co.uk/  for Black Lodge (deliveries)
and
https://www.lovelanebrewing.com/ for Love Lane (deliveries or click and collect)

See you again on Saturday at 7pm!!

The LBC Committee. x

As with last week (see the blog below for full details), we'll aim for a 7pm start and run through until around 11pm, though some of us on the Committee were starting to flag a little around 10.30pm, we're okay to hold the bar open a bit longer - since you're such lovely people.

There is/will be another playlist/livebeer jukebox to accompany things which will work best for the flow if you start this at 7pm sharp (it'll be ready around 6.45pm) and everyone in the livebeerpub will be experiencing things simultaneously. The last playlist is still active if you want to check that out on our YouTube link.  This time we also have some contributions to the playlist from Chapter Brewing and from Glen Affric Brewery in the midst of some Committee contributions.  They should hopefully be on hand to get involved should you have any questions for them!

Playlist here:
[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBvXyqmy0uv1IN3VfdljiJ80ZWa_DG2u9]

We're also looking at some other ideas to brighten the evening up and make it more interactive.  We will update things right here on this blog article as progress is made, so stay tuned to our channels for updates.

As ever, please tweet us @livbeerco and use the hashtag #livebeerpub in every tweet involved in the proceedings and we'll be sure to chat with you.

See you Saturday (28th March) at 7pm with your beers, or whatever else brings you some joy!

Stay safe and see you soon! x

We’re looking to host a little online get together via our Twitter account [https://twitter.com/livbeerco] this Saturday, 21st March 2020.  We’re certainly not the first to propose this kind of thing (and sorry if we're treading on any toes), but thought it might be a good point to improve people’s morale in the absence of being able to interact in person – one of the things that makes the beer thing so much fun and frankly a crucial element, is the social side of things.
 
So, what do you need to do?
 
Have yourself a Twitter account ideally, sign in, make sure you’re following our account and look out for tweets using the hashtag ‘#livebeerpub’.  We’ll be around to have a chat about all things beery or otherwise, plenty of the LBC Committee will be around hopefully to have a chat.  We can provide information on what you can do to provide support to Merseyside (or other) breweries and pubs during this difficult time.  Get hold of some lovely beers (especially any from our Merseyside brewers!) from a local bottle shop, via delivery from a pub or brewery or take advantage of growler/package fills as appropriate. 
A list of places and their contingency plans for delivery/fills is shown here on our pages: [http://www.liverpoolbeercollective.com/current-brewery-and-independent-offers.html]
For nationwide, the teamwork from Art By Volume and #CraftBeerHour has given us these resources: List [https://www.craftbeerhour.com/where-to-buy-beer-remotely] and a handy UK Map [http://abvstudio.co.uk/beer-map].
 
Grab your beer, take a photo of it, talk about it and interact with like minded people in lieu of bumping into them in our pubs, bottle shops and brewery taps.  We will be kicking things off at 7pm if people want to join us (until 10-11pm or so).
 
There’s no restrictions on where you’re based, what brewery’s beer you’re on, style or anything… just turn up and say hi!
 
Pretty simple really.
 
Another little facet we’re putting on is our ‘pub jukebox’ on a Youtube playlist.  If you start this at 7pm, we’ll all be synchronised and you can listen in on the choices of the LBC Committee for this round – if things continue as they are, we may look at inviting song suggestions to create new playlists for everyone to listen to whilst they sink a beer or two and chat to us and each other.  You can even express some concern at the (no doubt) dubious musical choices from our Committee if this floats your boat!  ​We hope you enjoy our choices!  Please do shout up if there are any issues with access – we are making it publicly available via our Youtube account in advance of 7pm.

Here’s the link for this [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBvXyqmy0uv2gey5-C5XpVFQ-PRtH46sV]. 
 
Sound good? 
 
See you at 7pm on Saturday in the Pub then!