UK breweries collaborate for coffee beer festival

Breweries such as Magic Rock, Brew By Numbers, Cloudwater and Weird Beard are collaborating with seven coffee roasters for Good Beer Hunting’s Uppers & Downers event later this year.

The festival, which aims to showcase the best in coffee beer, is the brainchild of Good Beer Hunting’s Founder and Director Michael Kiser and World Barista Champion Stephen Morrissey.

It is designed to focus on coffee as a specialty brewing and blending ingredient with origin. The festival promoting unexpected styles, extraction methods, and blending techniques.

The full line-up of collaborations is:

Brew By Numbers (London) x Workshop Coffee (London)
Beavertown (London) x Caravan (London)
Boundary (Belfast) x Roasted Brown (Delgany, ROI)
Cloudwater (Manchester) x Square Mile Coffee (London)
Magic Rock (Huddersfield) x Dark Woods Coffee (Huddersfield)
Northern Monk (Leeds) x North Star Roasters (Leeds)
Weird Beard (London) x Has Bean (Stafford)

Good Beer Hunting’s Michael Kiser explained: “Bringing Uppers & Downers to London is both an incredible outreach and homecoming for us. We’ve had people from all over the world venture to Chicago for the fest, and because of that interest and awareness we’re now able to bring it to them, which creates a platform for local brewers and roasters to showcase their own beer and coffee cultures, and experiment through collaboration. And no place outside the States has been more important to us than the U.K.”

“Our audience there is growing at an incredible pace, consistent with the growth of its craft beer scene, which has become quite ambitious in its own right. But for one of our founders. Stephen Morrissey, it’ll feel like old times – he worked alongside the founders of Square Mile in their earliest days in London.

“He lived in London when he became the Barista World Champion, at a time when the city’s coffee scene was beginning to explode.  Many of his greatest coffee friends are here. And now he’s moving back! It’ll be a bit of a homecoming celebration as well, and I’m excited about what that means for us with Uppers & Downers in London going forward.”

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