Craft Beer Expo will return to Black Lodge Brewery, Liverpool, in June, with an expanded mix of food, drink, and music across the Baltic Triangle site.
The festival has been part of Liverpool’s independent scene for more than 13 years and is recognised as the UK’s longest running craft beer event. What began as a small beer-led gathering has grown steadily into a well-attended summer fixture that attracts visitors from across the region.
For 2026, the team have broadened the drinks offer beyond beer, including independent cider, cocktails, and summer serves, alongside an expanded brewery list and food offer. More space will be used across indoor and outdoor areas.
“We wanted the 10th year of the brewery to feel like an opportunity to add more to the weekend,” said Black Lodge founder Paul Seiffert.
“The beer list remains central to what the Expo is about, and widening the food and drink side gives people more to enjoy throughout the session without changing the feel of the event.”
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Black Lodge has hosted the Expo for the past five years and has become one of the Baltic Triangle’s most recognisable independents. The brewery is known for its collaborations, one-off releases and regular markets, pop-ups, and community events that take place alongside day-to-day brewing.
Breweries already confirmed include Amity, Balance, Colbier, Courier, Dark Element, Duration, Farmyard, Firerock, Fell, Kirkstall, Lakes, Lark Hill, Only With Love, Pixie, Rigg and Furrow, Spookton, Talking Tides, Tartarus, Trig, Vaux, Vibrant Forest, and Wylam.
Paul added: “We see a wide mix of visitors now. Some people come mainly for the beer, others prefer the food or the music, and many make a full afternoon or evening of it. The brewery’s 10th year gives us room to build on that without changing what people recognise.”
