Why Track Brewery is right at the heart of Manchester’s beer scene
Manchester is home to a wonderful amount of successful independent breweries, and Track Brewery is right at the heart of that.
They have been operating for years now and have an army of diehard fans, I went along to go for a tour, and try a few samples, to understand why it is the success that it is.
The answer?
In short, the attention to detail and the community around it.
They have been operating for years now and have an army of diehard fans, I went along to go for a tour, and try a few samples, to understand why it is the success that it is.
The answer?
In short, the attention to detail and the community around it.
Transcript
00:00Hi, I'm Theo with Manchester World, and today I'm here at Track Brewery.
00:04Track is just one of many great Manchester breweries that we're really keen to emphasise
00:07are doing a great job at keeping Manchester's beer scene alive.
00:11I came here to speak to Dev, who's the taproom manager, to talk a little bit about their
00:14process of making beer and what makes this place so special.
00:17So we've been on this site since October 2021.
00:21Any beer that you drink from Track will be made in this facility here.
00:25Our owner Sam started this business around 2014.
00:27He'd just come off the back of cycling around the world for about two years, but along the
00:33way he stopped off at loads of different taprooms, and that kind of inspired him to create these
00:39like forward-thinking beers, so he could eventually get a space like this.
00:43I mean it's a startling amount of beer, and the ones that you can see in front of me,
00:46these are just five of 23 that they sell here at the taproom, and I'll let Dev talk you
00:50through them.
00:51This is Arosa, our Hellers, and this here is our West Coast Pale, which we just put
01:00out last week called Being Human.
01:02What you've got is a real community, and a community that works together to build each
01:06other up.
01:07That's where the community element really grows there.
01:11It's really nice that we don't really see each other as being in competition with each
01:17other, and instead it's more a case of if we can bring more people to Manchester and
01:22come and experience the beer scene that we've created and grown here, then it's better for
01:29all of us.
01:30We actually do something called a block party, which is happening three times this year in
01:35this area.
01:36That's a chance for all four of the venues in this area in Piccadilly East to throw basically
01:43a party.
01:46We all get together, we all organise it, and it's really nice to be able to do that with
01:50all the other breweries.
01:51And that's what makes Manchester's beer scene so special, and that's what makes Trak so
01:54special too.
01:56So from Trak Brewery, I'm Theo Cusen-Betts with Manchester World.