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Well, that's Saturday all sold - good few for Sunday still available, and you've plenty of advance warning to book Monday off... 😁

#beer #smoke #forwardplanning
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🔥🔥 Smokefest 2026 🔥🔥🔥

11-12th April 2026

Full details and tickets here 👇

torrside.co.uk/smokefest.html
torrside.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
torrside.bsky.social
🔥🔥 Smokefest 2026 🔥🔥🔥

11-12th April 2026

Full details and tickets here 👇

torrside.co.uk/smokefest.html
torrside.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
torrside.bsky.social
Happy Halloween from our Head Of Compliance
Yuki, a small dark coloured Shiba Inu, in shiny red devil horns and surrounded by fake cobweb, pumpkins, skeletons, etc, and looking remarkably unimpressed even for her.
October 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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dystopiabar.bsky.social
The third beer for our Barley Wine Festival is a little more local. @torrside.bsky.social's Captain Scarlet & The Nectarons. A 10% Red Barley Wine brewed for Independent Salford Beer Festival 8, in 2023!

#barleywinefestival #barleywine #barleywineislife #craftbeer #kegbeer #EscapeTheChaos
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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beersmanchester.bsky.social
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#ISBFX Brewday 1 or "Over The Hills & Far Away Where Monsters Come Out To Play" — ISBFX share.google/ZRg2No6wB8Xj...

The #ISBFX Begins. In New Mills.

With the wonderful (literally) @torrside.bsky.social.

Read on. Please share. And grab one of the few remaining tickets.
#ISBFX Brewday 1 or "Over The Hills & Far Away Where Monsters Come Out To Play" — ISBFX
Jim : “In the dim and distant past, way before ISBF was a ‘thing’, I was a blogger - mostly about beer - with a small readership. Manchester had a small, yet vibrant, modern beer (I still loathe th...
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September 18, 2025 at 6:28 AM
torrside.bsky.social
Random 10th birthday event! On Thurs 25th Sept, it's a bottle tasting at the brewery: we've dug into our brewers' hoard for bottle numbers 1-6 of the earliest Dogs Of War (barrel aged series) - 3 from 2018, 4 from 2019.

More detail & tickets on the website, here:
www.torrside.co.uk/events.html
September 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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skbeerfestival.bsky.social
The winners of our beer of the festival have been announced! Congrats to the following:

Gold – @torrside.bsky.social Grendel with homebrewer Jon Britton.
Silver – Bridgehouse Rum & Raisin Stout
Bronze - @marblebrewers.bsky.social Stratagem, which was with homebrewer Joe Lee.
June 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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brewclubshef.bsky.social
Congratulations to @brewclubshef.bsky.social member Jon Britton & @torrside.bsky.social whose collab beer 'Grendel' has won beer of the festival at @skbeerfestival.bsky.social !🏆
Joe Lee's collab with @marblebrewers.bsky.social 'Stratagem' came 3rd🥳
June 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
torrside.bsky.social
Out next week - 10 barrel aged beers.
Dogs of War releases (and Cats of Chaos) for 2025.
Artwork on 2 750ml beer bottles, one a Shinobi Shiba in a red & pink kimono with a two-bladed tachi, in front of a skull mountain and all surrounded with a sakura background; and one a Samurai Shiba in a Nobunaga era armour style & with a war fan, where the crest on the fan and helmet is a furiously angry hop. Artwork on 2 750ml beer bottles, one is the Battle Pug (who is dressed as a landsknecht) and one is the Blue Merle Militia, in a rather flaboyant cavalieresque get-up Artwork on 3 750ml beer bottles: Stanlius Caesar, an imperious bichon frise as a Roman Emperor; the War Russell, a Moche warrior jack russell with gold helmet, war club, red and gold poncho and a shield showing the decapitator crab deity; and the Swiss Guard Sighthound, in the traditonal Vatican blue yellow & red stripes and sitting over his ceremonial pike. Artwork on 3 750ml beer bottles: Cleocatra, an Egyptian looking gold-and-lapis adorned grey shorthair cat; Obi & Olive, two cats in front of a forest background, the large fluffy one looking like a jedi master and the other much smaller one like the padawan; and Shogun Yogi, a grizzled one-eyed tabby cat dressed in a shogunate era armour style sitting by a katana with a background of a japanese scroll depicting a landscape and a battle.
June 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM