Independent brewery and taproom · Carlisle
Brewed ten feet from your pint.
We make our beer and pour it in the same room, on West Walls in Carlisle. Come in for a pint, or take a box home.
- Open
- Thursday to Sunday
- Parking
- Heads Lane, right opposite
- Dogs
- Very welcome
Carlisle's independent brewery and taproom
Independent beer.
Back in Carlisle.
For most of the last century the state ran Carlisle's pubs and breweries, and independent brewing here all but disappeared. We're two friends from the city bringing it back.
Our beer is brewed on West Walls, about ten feet from where you're drinking it. No big brewery behind us and no corners cut. Just good beer, made by people who care about this city.
- Brewed here
- Every beer, by hand, on our 1000 litre kit on West Walls.
- Cumbria's first
- The first city centre microbrewery taproom in the county.
- Taproom led
- The bar isn't a bolt-on to the brewery. It's the heart of it.
Always independent
Our cans
Can't make it down? Have one at home.
Mixed Packs & Gifts
Can't pick? Don't.
Collect at the bar. First pint's on us.
Order 12 cans or more online, choose collection at checkout and pick them up from the bar, Thursday to Sunday. We'll pour you a free pint while you're here.
Collection orders are usually ready within 24 hours. No delivery charge, and the beer hasn't been bounced around in a van.
Next door · Opens Saturday 21 November
The Wheel
It's official. Our new live music venue opens in the old Twisted Wheel nightclub next door. Gigs, DJs and the big match on the big screen, with eight tanks of our beer behind the bar. Free entry to everything until the end of the year.
Get yourself down.
- Mon–Wed
- Closed, we're brewing
- Thursday
- 4pm–10pm · Locals Thursday, £4.50 pints of Too Easy and Nitro Man
- Fri & Sat
- 12pm–11pm
- Sunday
- 12pm–8pm · Cask Club, all cask £3.50 a pint
West Walls, Carlisle CA3 8UB. Heads Lane car park is right opposite. Dogs welcome, children until 8pm.
Our story
Two mates and an old nightclub.
The Twisted Wheel sat empty for seventeen years. In 2023 we took it on with no power and no water, laid the floor ourselves, and opened the taproom in June 2024. Now the music's coming back too.