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First up... Our next meet the brewer and tap takeover is with Track, without doubt one of the best breweries in the country. They're probably best known for their pale beers, particularly their Gold Top DIPA series but anyone familiar with their dark beers and sours will know their isn't a style where they don't excel. We'll be pouring a selection of their beers from the 3rd-6th November and there'll be a guided tasting and Q&A with one of the Track team on the Thursday (3rd) you can secure your ticket here. Right, Nothing Bound! Yep the next run of...

First up... This week our mates up the road Green Duck are launching their new can & keg range and we have exclusive first pours at The Hop Vault from Thursday. We'll have the entire range of can and keg beer available for you to try until Sunday and on Thursday night the guys from Green Duck will be coming down to hang out, chat and answer your questions. So come down and support your local brewery! Right, this week's collaboration watch is a big one: If you haven't got on the Northern Monk x Smug Patrons Project hype train...

Ho Ho Ho... It's Christmas mate.  First up... Advent calendars! We know, it's early, but we've had so many people ask about them that we thought it was best to just open up orders.

We're doing things a little different this year, we're not doing an entry level "Basic" calendar this year, it wasn't a very popular option and we kinda feel like it doesn't really deliver the kind of experience we're aiming to offer. This year we'll be offering our premium and luxury calendars as usual but we'll be doing a new "Bougie As Fuck" calendar; it'll be fancy and full...

Well, some of it at least... We have three of the official Munich Oktoberfest beers available in bottle from today - Augustiner, Hacker-Pshorr and Paulaner. The other three are due, but there's been what was described to us as a "hold up". We have no idea what that means or how long they will take to be... put down(?!?), so watch this space they should be arriving soon! As well as the German Festbiers there's a few UK breweries attempting to get in on the action with festbiers or other German style lager releases from Deya, Lost & Grounded, Cloudwater and...