Black Jack Beers - Manchester

Visited on Craft Beer Tour. Amazing enthusiasm and knowledge from the head brewer. Great beer, will look out for them!

I love their beer, but we made a special trip there during a visit to Manchester after reading their opening hours and description on google unfortunately we were told that they are a functioning brewery and only operate as a tap House once a month or for private parties, so a wasted trip. We have visited several tap houses at breweries in the past, so I don't know why the guy thought it weird we were there to drink. Don't let that put you off their beer though. Obviously the star rating is irrelevant so I put 4 not to skew the average, but really disappointed to waste so much time hunting it out on a short trip. Sort your hours out please!

Nice beer and, the evening we were there, there was a Portuguese food track that had amazing wraps. The only downside is that you need to exchange money for tokens to buy beer. They give you the money back if you don't spend them all, but it's always easier to directly pay at the bar.

Regularly head down here for their monthly brew tap. Seriously good beers from the brewery and a range of other breweries. Always good music played by a range of local musos and normally got some great food on the go to arepas, pizza, BBQ, Greek kebabs etc from some of the local st food vendors. Dead friendly , dead cool. Worth venturing out of town to hunt down.

What an amazing concept!! A brewery opening its taps to its fan punters once a month and inviting street food genius and super hip DJs along. Blackjack beers are amongst the best beers made in Manchester and the UK (although this list is now getting very long indeed, and we're all the better for it). The guys had most of their beers and more from other local breweries on offer and Arepa! Arepa! Arepa! were there to make sure we keep nicely fed. The DJs were playing some seriously cool tracks and it all allowed us to forget that we were under a railway track in a dodgy part of Manchester instead of on a beach bar in Miami. I hear more exciting news are in the pipeline for this idyllic spot so watch this space!!