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Bottom’s Up! FROM TRADITIONAL TAPS TO PIONEERING IPAS, CAMBRIDGE BREWERIES ARE FLOURISHING, BUT THERE’S STILL ROOM TO FILL, FINDS MIRIAM BALANESCU YEASTIE BOYS
PINT PULLERS The Geldart is one of the city’s pubs mucking in for the Quarter
programme of music and events. For every branded glass purchased, supported by Gearset, ten pence will be donated to a local charity of each pub’s choice. For Sophie at The Blue Moon, the lack of a beer festival this year – the third cancellation in a row – was devastating. “I always find a brewery that I’ve not worked with before and can build relationships to bring their beer to the public.” A collective event, The Cambridge Beer
ver the past two decades, a fresh batch of breweries has surfaced in Cambridge. Richard Naisby
co-founded Milton Brewery in 1999, while the new century saw Moonshine Brewery, The Cambridge Brew House and more take Cambridge’s first steps towards becoming a craft beer city. With many breweries in their infancy, the pandemic was turbulent and a time of adaptation. The Cambridge Beer Festival was set to return this year, but after its sudden cancellation, The Blue Moon, The Cambridge Blue, The Alex, The Petersfield, The Geldart and Calverley’s Brewery have pulled together to ensure alternative celebrations go ahead. The Cambridge Beer Quarter sees invited breweries concoct a brand-new beer, with Calverley’s, Pastore, Three Blind Mice, Wylde Sky and Nene Valley on the line-up. Accompanying this showcase of the region’s best beverages will be a
Quarter will unite the city’s pubs again. “Sometimes people get the impression that we’re in competition with each other,” says Sophie. “Actually, if one of us THE PANDEMIC WAS TURBULENT AND A TIME OF ADAPTATION
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