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We cannot say thank you enough to everyone that made #TTO17 an absolute riot. You'll all be missed... until next year, of course.

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It's over for another year. But what memories we made. #Repost @gipsyhillbrew ・・・ Weekend in Brighton for the @tap_takeover was incredible. @thewestern_pub you guys killed it, go visit them folks. Cheers to the @lainebrewco & @the_beer_collective for organising and to the other breweries for a great weekender.

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New BFFs @deadwaxsocial and @wylam_brewery. That's the best thing about TTO, bringing people together. So many friends made this weekend. (at Dead Wax Social)

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So many brewers in Brighton today, so much good advice. #Repost @lainebrewco ・・・ Our brewer Joe taking some punters through a selection of our beers that are on show at the @blacklion_btn for @tap_takeover

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Gosh, wasn't it! #Repost @jessicaclairemason ・・・ So, yesterday was fun • 🤘🍺 @tap_takeover (at North Laine Brewhouse)

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Spilling out onto the street at @thewhiterabbitpub for #fiercebeer at Tap Takeover. (at The White Rabbit)

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Citrus IPA from @thegardenbrewery really doesn't taste like a 7.2. Really fruity, clean and uses the hops really well. (at The Hope & Ruin)

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Friday night vibes with @gipsyhillbrew Walloon, Belgian IPA and @thebeer_beagle. 7% - the party starts at @thewestern_pub. (at The Western)

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Tap Takeover t-shirts are available from @northlainepub for those fashion-forward drinkers this season. #ontrend

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@hwaddington, head honcho of #TTO17's festival hub @northlainepub, wants to tell you about the three beers she's looking forward to this weekend. Take it away Hannah. (at North Laine Brewhouse)

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@thebeer_beagle from @lainebrewco's Brew Lab recommends his top three beers not to miss at #TTO17. @edgebrewing @twotribesbrewing (at North Laine Brewhouse)

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The Perfect Tap Takeover

We’ve got SO much beer-relate greatness happening this weekend, the main decision will be deciding how to fit it all in.

So, if we were coming to Tap Takeover as visitors, what would we do on Saturday to have the greatest day of beer in our lives? Find out below.

(This is a fun event. But as we all know, too much alcohol is not fun. Take it slow, drink smaller measures, eat regularly and drink plenty of water. If you’ve already drunk enough, just taste.)

12:00: North Laine Brewhouse - Venue 1

Our first stop is the hub of the event – the North Laine Brewhouse – to pick up our wristband.  We take some time to look at the first brushstrokes in the live art battle, play Human Whack-a-mole (yes, really) and get stuck into some beers from the 20-strong tapwall.

Drink: Five Points XPA, 4.0%

Do: Human Whack-a-mole

13:00: Four Pure at the Mash Tun - Venue 4

Onwards to the Mash Tun for the first of the Original Gravity tasting sessions. This one’s on Wylam and is a great way to get into the swing of things. We also try the Four Pure Lime Kolsch. Yes!

Drink: Limehaus - Imperial Lime Kolsch, 7.4%

Do: Original Gravity Beer School - Wylam tasting (13:30)

14:15: Two Tribes at the Mesmerist - Venue 13

On to the Mesmerist for some beer cocktails (Hoptails?) and laid back tunes from Vintage Re-mix.

Drink: Island Records Jamaica Porter Espresso Martini

Do: Vintage Remix DJs

15:15: Edge Brewing at the East Street Tap - Venue 14

We then swing by East Street Tap to try Barcelona’s finest Craft Beers and listen to Adrian Tierney-Jones give his tasting on “A Punk History of Beer” (15:30). Beery fascination.

Drink: Edge Appassionada - Passion Fruit Berliner, 4.0%

Do: Original Gravity “A Punk History of Beer”, wth Adrian Tierney Jones.

16:00: Laine Brew Co at the Black Lion - Venue 1

It’s on to the Black Lion to hear the Head Brewer of Laine Brew Co talk about Dirty Weekend, the “Brighton IPA” brewed with Brighton Rock and seaweed from the beach. While we are there we find a stand-up magician doing amazing things with beer mats.

Drink: Laine/Two Tribes Dirty Weekend.

Do: Stand-up magician at the Laine Brew Co Garden party.

17:00 Burning Sky at the Victory - Venue 10

Time to line the stomach, so we head to the Victory to try Burning Sky’s incredible Saison de Printemps with a famous Victory pie.

Drink: Burning Sky Saison Printemps - Spring Saison, 4.2%

Do: A delicious pie from the Victory.

18:00 Irish Collective at Fiddler’s Elbow - Venue 9

Suitably refreshed we carry on to the Fiddler’s Elbow to try some of the incredible Craft Beers now being produced in Ireland. We sit back and enjoy it with some live traditional Irish music.

Drink: Boundary Brewery Imbongo IPA,  5.5%

Do: Live Irish music

19:00 Gipsy Hill at the Western - Venue 8

A short walk up the hill to gets us to the Western and Gipsy Hill. We take a swift half of one of their cracking beers before moving on.

Drink: Gispy Hill Walloon - Belgian IPA, 7%

Do: Keep on movin'

19:45 Garden at the Hope & Ruin - Venue 7

A flying visit to check out Croatia’s finest. We gut stuck in to the vegan kebabs and Garden’s Citrus IPA before heading back down into the Laines.

Do: Vegan kebabs from Beezelbab

Drink: Garden, Citrus IPA, 7.2%

20:30: Moor Beer at the Earth & Stars - Venue 6

Just around the corner we stop off at the Earth & Stars to try some of Bristol’s best. After so much exciting keg beer we go for one of Moor’s fantastic options on cask.

Do: Briefly rest our feet

Drink: Revival - Modern Bitter, 3.8%

21:15: North Laine Brewhouse - Venue 1

We head back to the Festival Hub for a dose of Carnival Collective. Brighton’s incredible 20-piece brass band. We also head back to the tap-wall for another try.  

Do: Carnival Collective Brass Band

Drink: Laine Brew Co. - Lemon & Lime Gose, 4.5%

22:15: Fierce at the White Rabbit - Venue 2

Following the brass band onslaught we duck around the corner to check out Fierce at the White Rabbit. The beers blow us away. Of only we had longer… maybe back tomorrow?

Drink: Fuego Feroz - Chilli Pale, 5.0%

Do: Something fierce and rabbity.

22:45: Wylam at Dead Wax - Venue 5

We finish the night at Wylam for “Top of the Hops”, where wannabe DJs from participating breweries go back to back on the wheels of steel. We’ve got just about enough energy to dance into the early hours.

Drink: Hickey the Rake - Limonata Pale, 4.2%

Do: Top of the Hops, Baby!

Sunday:

Cask hub at the Bath Arms - Venue 11 & Five Points at the Fountain Head - Venue 3

Even we couldn’t work out how to get all 14 pubs in one day, so on Sunday we wandered through the South Lanes to soak up the atmosphere, stopping at the Bath Arms for a delicious pint (or two) of cask beer. We finished our walk at the Fountain Head for a late Sunday Lunch and indulged in a game of Bingo with Boogaloo Stu! (Warning, this is unlike any game of Bingo you have ever experienced).

Drink: Railway Porter, 4.8%

Do: Bingo with Boogaloo Stu

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Here’s a selection of some of the best events at Tap Takeover 2017, split up between music and fun events, and after that one’s based around beer. Get stuck in. 

Music & Fun

Friday

North Laine Brewhouse King Lagoon's DJ Eggs legs Soundsystem - psychedelic Afro-Latin Music show Sword Dancing from Sinora Thorneycorft and Brazilian Burlesque with Miss Cherry On Fire. (Throughout the evening)

Hope & Ruin with Garden A night of weird’n’wild bizarro treats. Join the Mondo Bizarro as they seek out and dance to a weird and wild selection of sounds from around the globe. Habibi funk meets French nu-wave, Turkish psych, & Japanese pop.

Fierce Beer with White Rabbit Fierce Rabbit garden party - expect the unexpected (all weekend)

Edge with East Street Tap Live comedy. You’re having a laugh, ain’t you?

Saturday

North Laine Brewhouse Carnival Collective - live funky brass to play in the night. (thoughout the evening)

Dead Wax with Wylan Top of the Hops - brewers go back to back in a vinyl spin off (8 till late)

Fiddlers Elbow with Boundary Live traditional Irish music to see in the afternoon (3-5)

Hope & Ruin & Garden Brewery Join Señor Smith's Budget Rock Showcase.High jinks and low-end delinquent trash rock & roll platters from the unkept half of Stay Sick, Neil Sick. Expect garage, fuzz, twang, surf, distortion, punk, psych, reverb and all your other favourite amplified sounds as recorded on original and often fucked up wax. 9pm-late 

Mesmerist with Two Tribes Vintage Remix - DJs from label all afternoon (5-8)

Black Lion with Laine Brew Co Good Times Garden Party - DJS and live music (all day)

The Victory with Burning Sky Get Schwifty @ The Victory - funk, breaks, hip-hop, acrobat,  D’n’B, breakcore and Jungle heavy hitters across two floors of DJs. (throughout the evening)

Dead Wax Social with Wylam Brewery Top of the Hops - brewer vs brewer in a vinyl spinoff (8 till late)

Sunday

Black Lion with Laine Brew Co Live Bluegrass  to see in the Sunday (all day)

Fiddlers Elbow with Boundary Live Irish music and blues all afternoon (mid afternoon)

Fountain Head with Five Points Boogaloo Bingo with Boogaloo Stu

Mesmerist with Two Tribes John Crampton’s foot-stomping blues (mid afternoon)

Hope & Ruin & Garden Brewery Bring your unwanted clothes and swap them with other people! All you have to do is bring along your old clothes in a bag and you're free to swap with other people's clobber. Any clothes unswapped by 7pm will be donated to vegan charity shop, Dr Hadwen Trust. DJ Henry W-P will be playing psych, Britpop, baggy and post-punk all on vinyl

Beer

Friday

North Laine Brewhouse 20-strong tap wall loads and fires (all day) Live canning opens. (till 8pm)

Mash Tun with Fourpure 7pm: OG Launch PARTY! Issue 12 launch party with Fourpure at the Mash Tun. Join the editors of Original Gravity% and our friends at Fourpure for a party. (From 7pm)

Fountain Head with Five Points Super meet the brewer - merchandise, tastings, giveaways, rare bottling (all day)

Victory with Burning Sky Saison le Printemps launched (all day)

Earth & Stars with Moor Beer & Food Extravaganza. Special organic dishes cooked and paired with beer (all day)

Bath Arms Cask hub For the love of cask - the finest casks on all weekend.

Saturday Mash Tun with Four Pure The Orginal Gravity Beer School - free tutored tastings for wristband holders 1pm: Meet Wylam.Daniel Neilson hosts a Q&A and tasting with the founder and the brewers of Wylam Brewery. 2.30pm: A punk history of beer.  Join Adrian Tierney-Jones for a generous beer tasting and a brief history of beer through the prism of punk 5pm: All about saisons. Join Original Gravity% and the brewers from Fourpure to taste its new saison. We’ll be tasting a few saisons while finding out (or at least arguing about) what makes a saison and saison.

North Laine Brewhouse Craft Beer 101 - a beginners session on Craft Beer tasting (and drinking!) with Nic Donald, Laine Head Brewer (2:30pm)

East Street Tap with Edge 'A Punk History of Beer’ mixing beer tasting and music with Adrian Tierney-Jones, free for wristband holders (3:30pm)

Black Lion with Laine Brew Co/ Two Tribes “Dirty Weekend” collaboration beer launch and meet the brewer(s) special. (4:00pm) Tutored tastings of other Laine Brew Co beers on the hour, every hour from 2-6pm.

Two Tribes with the Mesmerist ‘Hoptails’ - beer cocktails from the mind of Jordan Mower, Two Tribes Head Brewer (all day)

Sunday

Mash Tun with Four Pure The Original Gravity Beer School - free tutored tastings for wristband holders 3pm: Sour beer tasting All you ever needed to know about sour beers. Come and try some of the best sours that will be at the Brighton Tap Takeover with a tutored tasting. 5pm – Around the world in 5 beers Take a world tour with beers inspired from around the globe and meet a couple of the brewers who brewed the beer itself.

All pubs Sunday lunch galore - all the roast you could ever need!

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Original Gravity% Beer School at Brighton Tap Takeover

Original Gravity% is running a FREE Beer School over the Brighton Tap Takeover weekend. The series of talks and tastings will include speakers and guests including journalist Adrian Tierney-Jones, as well as brewers from Fourpure, Wylam and more. We’ll be covering off questions such as what the Clash has to do with porter, why sour beers are, well, sour and what happens when you put Argentinian yerba mate in a saison.

Each of the talks will be hosted by Original Gravity% editors, and will include a free beer tasting. They will each last about half an hour. The itinerary is as follows…

FRIDAY 7pm: PARTY! Issue 12 launch party with Fourpure at the Mash Tun, from 7pm. Join the editors of Original Gravity% and our friends at Fourpure for a party.

SATURDAY 1pm: Meet Wylam. At the Mash Tun. Daniel Neilson hosts a Q&A and tasting with the founder and the brewers of Wylam Brewery.

2.30pm: A punk history of beer. At the Mash Tun. Join Adrian Tierney-Jones for a generous beer tasting and a brief history of beer through the prism of punk.

3.30pm: A punk history of beer. At the East Street Tap. Join Adrian Tierney-Jones for a generous beer tasting and a brief history of beer through the prism of punk.

5pm: All about saisons. At the Mash Tun. Join Original Gravity% and the brewers from Fourpure to taste its new saison. We’ll be tasting a few saisons while finding out (or at least arguing about) what makes a saison a saison.

SUNDAY

3pm: Sour beer tasting. At the Mash Tun. All you ever needed to know about sour beers. Come and try some of the best sours that will be at the Brighton Tap Takeover with a tutored tasting.

– 5pm – Around the world in 5 beers. At the Mash Tun.

Take a world tour with beers inspired from around the globe and meet a couple of the brewers who brewed the beer itself.

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Venue #1: North Laine Brewhouse:

A rotating selection of 20 different beers selected from the best offered by all of the attending brewers.

Venue #2: Fierce Beer @ The White Rabbit

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Tropical Tart - Tropical Sour, 4.5% Moose Mousse - Chocolate Milk Stout, 4.5% Day Shift - IPA. 5.0% Grapefruit Day Shift - Grapefruit IPA, 5.0% Fuego Feroz - Chilli Pale, 5.0% Split Shift -  IPA, 5.5% Cancan Killer - Oatmeal Fruit Pale, 5.5% Dirty Sanchez - Smoked Porter, 6.5% Night Shift - Black IPA, 6.5%

Venue #3: Five Points @ The Fountain Head

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XPA, 4.0% Pale, 4.4% Pils, 4.8% IPA, 7.1% Cask

Hook Island Red, 6.0% Brickfield Brown, 5.4% Railway Porter, 4.8%

Venue #4: Fourpure @ The Mash Tun

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Tea Time - Earl Grey Session IPA, 3.7% Indy Lager, 4.4% Limehaus - Imperial Lime Kolsch, 7.4% Morning Star - Oaked Vanilla Porter, 7.1% Shapeshifter - IPA, 6.4% Spice Rack - Spiced IPA, 6.3%

Venue #5: Wylam @ Dead Wax

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Hickey the Rake - Limonata Pale, 4.2% La Saissonaire - Lemon Balm & Rosemary Saison, 5.4% Remain in Light - Alpha Pale, 5.0% Into the Mystic - New England Pale, 5.8% Bróðirblóð - Juniper Nordic Ale, 6.0% Haxan - Black Wit Beer, 6.2% Jakehead - IPA, 6.3% Club of Slaughters - Stout, 8.8%

Venue #6: Moor Beer @ Earth & Stars

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Nor Hop - Northern Pale Ale, 4.1% So Hop - Pacific Pale Ale, 4.1% Union Hop - British Pale Ale, 4.1% Return of the Empire - English IPA, 5.7% Radiance - Blonde Ale, 5% Stout, 5%

Cask

Revival - Modern Bitter, 3.8% RAW - Best Bitter, 4.3% Last Minute - Spiced Porter, 7.1% PMA - Pale Modern Ale, 5.3%

Venue #7: Garden @ Hope & Ruin

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Citrus IPA, 7.2% Pilsner, 4.5% Stout, 5.7% Pale Ale, 5.1%

Cans

Session Ale, 4.0% IPA, 6.5%

Venue #8: Gipsy Hill @ The Western

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Hepcat - Session IPA, 4.6% Dissident - Porter, 4.8% Nomad - Milk Stout, 5.0% Walloon - Belgian IPA, 7% Aviator - Wheat, 5.5% North by South East

Cask

Southpaw - Amber Ale, 4.2% Beatnik - Pale Ale 3.8%

Venue #9: Irish Beer Collective @ Fiddler’s Elbow

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Boundary Brewery Imbongo Forever Ago Push Pull Gift

Kinnegar Brewery White Rabbit Rust bucket Yannaroddy Otway

White Hag Brewery Little Fawn Silver Branch Hag and Hare Roc Pilsner

Venue #10: Burning Sky @ The Victory

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Arise - Session IPA, 4.4% Easy Answers - IPA 6.0% Saison Printemps - Spring Saison, 4.2% Monolith - Wild Ale, 7.4% Saison Reserve - Aged Saison, 7.5%

Cask

Aurora - US Pale, 5.6% Plateau  -  Session Pale, 3.5%

Venue #11: Cask Hub @ Bath Arms

A rotating selection of cask beers from Laine Brew Co, Two Tribes, Burning Sky, Gipsy Hill, Five Points & Moor

Venue #12: Laine Brew Co @ Black Lion

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Ripper - Session IPA, 4.9% Source - Pale Ale, 4.1% Revelator - IPA, 5.9% Word - Lager, 4.5% Dirty Weekend - Brighton IPA (collab' with Two Tribes), 5.0% Neon Angel - Double Rye IPA, 8.1% D Red Empire - Red Ale, 4.5% Twisted Lips - Lemon & Lime Gose, 4.5% Hello Possums - Aussie Amber, 4.6 %

Cask

Bestest - Best Bitter, 4.3% Black Lion IPA.- Dark IPA, 4.9%

Venue #13: Two Tribes @ The Mesmerist

Keg New England - Pale, 5.2% Native - APA, 5% APA Mango Sour Pale, 4.5% Urban Rye, 5.8% Island Records Session IPA,  4.5% Island Records Jamaican Porter, 6.2%

Cans

Hello WastED - Citrus Wheat, 5% Island Records - Session IPA, 4.5% Island Records - Jamaican Porter, 6.2%

Cask

Unbarred Grapefruit IPA, 5.2%

Venue #14: Edge @ East Street Tap

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Appassionada - Passion Fruit Berliner, 4.0% Space Coast - American IPA 4.5% Ziggy -  Session IPA, 4.8% Voila - Blonde, 5.6% Hoptimista - American IPA, 6.6% Padrino - Porter, 6.9% Brass Knuckles - American Strong, 9.2% Pure Decadence - Russian Imperial Stout, 10.3%

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Surely the most environmentally friendly pub in Brighton, the Earth and Stars is powered by a solar panel in the roof and serves organic lager, cider, spirits and wine, offering a rare chance to help save the planet by getting another round in. If it’s all starting to sound a little worthy, fear not - they do plenty of non-organic food and drink too, and the atmosphere, usually fairly mellow, is livelier at weekends.

The Earth & Stars are hosting Moor Beer for TTO17. 

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The retro-flavoured Mesmerist is new to Tap Takeover for 2017. Those guys are as fond of all things vintage as they are of partying. 

They are hosting Two Tribes for TTO17.