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Indie Beer Week 2026
Indie Beer Week 2026
This week is the start of Indie Beer Week 2026 (Fri 10th - Sun 9th April). Indie Beer Week is all about celebrating independent beer, pubs and people. As a truly... Read more...
Front Page News!
Front Page News!
Delighted to be featured in the Brewer's Journal this quarter, and on the front page no less! You can read the interview with Red about the wilder side of F&L... Read more...
We Are Local Heroes / Pints, Place & Provenance...
We Are Local Heroes / Pints, Place & Provenance...
We had a great time last month chatting with Chris & Dan on the We Are Local Heroes podcast. A lovely wandering conversation about, beer, food, our journey at First... Read more...
National Award Winning Beer!
National Award Winning Beer!
Last week First & Last Brewery we were awarded the Silver Overall Champion of Bottle/Can Beer at the prestigious SIBA National Indie Beer Awards 2026. The award-winning beer, Spruce, was selected from... Read more...
10 Years of Brewing!
10 Years of Brewing!
We can't quite believe this year is our 10th anniversary brewing beer in Northumberland. To celebrate 10 years of brewing we're going to be releasing 10 new, unique beers. Each... Read more...
Good Beer Guide 2026
Good Beer Guide 2026
We're delighted that the tap room & the brewery are featured in the Good Beer Guide 2026. The Good Beer Guide has been collated by CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale)... Read more...
Award Winning Beer!
Award Winning Beer!
We've recently been celebrating winning a Gold Medal at the Society of Independent Brewers - SIBA North East beer competition!  Read more...
New Beer
New Beer
Our newest foraged beer release, this year's 'Scrumped' is a German style Gose beer packed full of summer fruits. For this beer we've used locally picked red currants, black currants,... Read more...
New Beer!!
New Beer!!
  It's always exciting for us when we brew a new speciality beer. 'Rhubarbia' is a  delicious gose-style sour beer. A veritable mountain of Northumberland-scrumped rhubarb goes into this beer... Read more...
Northumberland Breweries Beer Box
Northumberland Breweries Beer Box
We've just relaunched the Northumberland Breweries Beer Box. We have some great breweries across Northumberland brewing a variety of amazing and award winning beers. This is a hand picked, varied... Read more...
Brewery Tours & Tastings for 2024
Brewery Tours & Tastings for 2024
We've recently added dates for 2024 brewery tour & tasting workshops.  Read more...
New Beer - Double Damson / Imperial Porter
New Beer - Double Damson / Imperial Porter
Our first new beer release of 2024. We've doubled the damsons and doubled the malt-bill of our popular seasonal ale. It's a rich, aromatic, smooth, fruity & naughtily moreish Imperial... Read more...
Assured Independent
Assured Independent
The 'Assured Independent British Craft Brewer' campaign is run by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), who ensure that any beers which carry the Independent Craft Brewer logo are relatively small, independent and brewing quality beer. Read more...
Block by Block
Block by Block
One of our favourite Christmas presents this year was a brick! Given to us by a friend who found it in the foundations of a workshop in Northumberland a few... Read more...
So that was 2018....
So that was 2018....
So that was 2018...what a year! A year ago we were gypsy brewing - using other people's breweries as and when we could. This year we've spent a lot of... Read more...
Mad Jack Ha'
Mad Jack Ha'
Mad Jack Ha' (or Mad Jack Hall) is our session IPA, a little moreish 3.8%er with Mosaic hops. We made a Christmas delivery to this lovely lady, Hazel last week.... Read more...
BBC Country File
BBC Country File
Surreal but very enjoyable day spent filming in and around the brewery with Steve Fletcher for BBC Country File Christmas special. Started at 7.45am feeding cows spent grain, brewed our... Read more...
Thunderbirds are go!!
Thunderbirds are go!!
We've spent a good few years thinking, dreaming, google searching, talking to brewers, looking down the back of sofas for spare money and of course drinking beer. My head is... Read more...