A BOLTON brewery and a popular bakery have teamed up to create a unique drink set to hit the bar this week. Northern Monkey, based in Nelson Square and Chorley Street, has teamed up with the Bolton-based bakery, Carrs Pasties, to brew their very own pale ale. The idea for the drink has come from Northern Monkey’s love of the famous pastie barm, which they believe is truly local to Bolton. Northern Monkey is ran by friends Ryan Bailey and Liam Convey, with this unique drop the latest collaboration over what has been a busy lockdown of brewing for the pair.
A popular micro-brewery is expanding its brewing operation and creating a new tap house after demands for its beers soared over lockdown. Liam Convery and Ryan Bailey run Northern Monkey Brew Co., which has a popular bar in Nelson Square, Bolton town centre, with its own brewed beers growing steadily over that time. However, over lockdown, demand for the duos beer has soared as they follow in the footsteps of other popular local breweries, such as Rivington Brew Co., selling their beers across the country. This means the demand for Northern Monkey beers has started to outweigh their brewing capabilities in Nelson Square, leading the pair to expand their production.
A POPULAR Bolton brewery is set to host its first beer festival in July. ‘Monkey in the Woods’ by Northern Monkey, which runs a bar in Nelson Square, Bolton, is to take place on July 3 as part of Bolton’s Beer and Cider week. The festival is to be hosted at Barrow Bridge car park, off Barrow Bridge Road, with half the tickets already sold for the event. A range of locally brewed beers, ciders and Bolton gin will be sold at the event, with live music and food also on offer. Thirty per cent of the proceeds from the event will be donated to The Woodlands Trust, Smithills Estate, to help them to continue preserving and maintaining the estate for years to come.
A member of an exploration group named the Northern Monkeys went to a school to tell the children about what he and his pals have discovered while they have been out exploring as a follow up to the schools involvement in the trout release. Bruce Lee-Knowles visited Springfield School in Burnley where his children are being schooled to speak with the year six pupils about items the Northern Monkeys group have found on their adventures. He along with Damion Whitton and Chris Kipper Taylor who make up the trio are most famous for clearing a huge amount of fly tipped waste from a large woodland area by a lay-by on Bacup Road, their efforts of which made national news.