Hawkshead Northern Craft collaborationBrewers from 13 top craft breweries got together to brew a special beer at Hawkshead Brewery on Friday to mark Northern Craft, Hawkshead’s tenth summer beer festival.

Hawkshead head brewer, Matt Clarke, called in his generation of craft brewers to come and pool ideas, with brewers from Magic Rock, Thornbridge, Pivovar, Ashover, Cloudwater, MarbleQuantum, Siren, Buxton, Fyne, Runaway and Roosters involved.

Beer lovers attending the festival were able to watch the beer being brewed A highly-hopped session IPA, it will be on sale in a few weeks.

Throughout the three days of Northern Craft, eight and a half pints of beer a minute (or a pint every seven seconds) were sold. During 33 hours of opening from noon on Thursday until 11pm on Saturday, 243 casks and kegs, of 106 different beers from 29 breweries, were drunk dry.