Love Lane brewery tap have launched a crowd funding webpage to pay for a function room which can be used by social groups. Love Lane have been brewing experimental beers on their pilot kit such as a recent 8.3% beer. Cask beers normally just on at weekends/Fridays.

All over the country brewers have taking advantage of drinkers visiting them for takeaways to set up their own tap rooms and both Liverpool Brewing and Top Rope now open their breweries on certain weekends as taps (see their webpages for details). Top Rope moved to Bootle from Wales in 2020.

Liverpool Brewing Company are now back to full brewing capacity. The Core range is back to full strength with 6 beers available, the Craft Range is now up to 5 beers with Little IPA 3.6% the latest addition and a new NEIPA to follow shortly. Team Toxic Core Range is also back to full availability, with 6 beers including the new Eton Trifles Sour, as well as 3 new Limited Release beers being launched each month. Overall, 30 options are available at any one time. Their monthly taproom events will continue on the first Sat of every month and have moved from outdoor beer garden events to indoor Beer, Music and Food events. Looking ahead their new brew vessels allow them to begin canning of their Craft Range, Specials, and TT Limited beers. They also aiming to have 2 new venues open. Beyond the first 2 openings they're hopeful 2022 will allow for further venues, so watch this space!

Neptune have reopened their brewery tap in Maghull on Saturdays, plus Friday for takeout’s.

Over the summer Rock the Boat released another batch of their seasonal beer, Here Comes the Sun (lil’ darlin’), a 4.5% ABV Golden Ale, described as a three hop IPA, it contains New Zealand Rakau, Slovenian Celeia, and British Golding hops. It was seen in the Grapes, Roscoe Street, Cask, and, astonishingly, the Crow’s Nest in

Crosby. Dave Barker has again produced a beer for the new hop picking season.

Appropriately called Green Hop, it is brewed using is Pilgrim hops from Stocks Farm

Worcestershire. It is a 3.7% Golden Ale. Dave reports that he has not gained any new outlets for his beers recently, but that plenty have closed or are not taking many guest beers until trade improves.