Track Brewing: from Lactose IPA to Cask Sonoma | The Craft Beer Channel

This week we visit a Manchester craft brewery that has quietly become one of the best breweries in the UK by focusing on making you want to neck a pint of whatever it is they brew, whether it's a cask of Sonoma or an 8% Lactose IPA. Seriously. A Lactose IPA. Yep.
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[@NZmellowyellow]

Like everyone I follow a lot of channels on a lot of different subjects but I can honestly say this is my favourite channel. Never let’s me down.

[@Disco-Terry]

I stop in Track fairly often, it's pretty much a must visit when on the beer in Manchester especially given their neighbours. Staff are really good too, funnily enough the lad on the bar with the curly hair is synonymous with Track for me, he must work some hours, was thinking what a glaring omission in the video and then he popped up at 21 mins haha!

[@hardyardsbrewers1225]

Well once again it's 7am here in NZ and you guys have made me thirsty... 🤣🥳🥳 cheers Fellas, Mike.

[@jonmeyrick]

Love Track, I feel very privileged to live so close to them and Cloudwater. It's great to see them getting their due. And yes, Sonoma is a minor miracle of a beer. Also, sparklers rule.

[@bonnieclydetours]

ALL of the colors & "very relaxed" vibe!! Dreamy.

[@FatherEarth93]

Brad's rugby sweater is on point again. Style icon in the making.

[@BobHope3018]

Visited Track and Cloudwater for the first time on Saturday, both great places and wonderful beer.

[@ipv6tech]

When I travel I always seek out beers that I can't get back home. I look for what is unique to a brewery or region, that is where I start my sampling. Keep real ale alive!

[@kw2142]

Brad has gone from Fila jacket to what looks like a Ralph Lauren rugby style jumper lol, what a legend. Keeping us guessing

[@johnmcbride7251]

Hey Guys Thanks to a large number of British ex pats down in New Zealand, many of our craft Breweries are making cask beers and you’d be surprised how good it is!

[@mitchfeaver3107]

Finally went to the taproom and had Sonoma on cask and it is so bloody good!

[@daibowen1]

Visited cloudwater and track back in November. Both were fantastic but the casual vibe of Track made it feel more welcoming. Beer and atmosphere were fantastic and loved the cask 🍺

[@tobbemann]

🙌🙌🙌Thank you so much for giving us the Track Taproom Experience(TTE)! Hope I will be able to visit in august! Planning a beer trip inspired by your great beer-travel content

[@alfieleavy88]

Great video guys lovely tap room need to visit and Sonoma is the best low abv pale I’ve ever tried I think!

[@DavesVids7]

I want to see Brad do beer/outfit pairings

[@andrewtaylor21]

Great video this week. I've enjoyed everything I've had from Track. I must get their taproom next time I'm in Manchester. West Coast Fest was also great this week. Amazing to be somewhere with a line-up of westies! I also had a nice chat with Brad and grabbed myself one of the black CBC T-shirts. Thanks guys.

[@martynpalmer4212]

Sonoma is a great beer and I'm glad cask is back but for me Half Dome is the best Track beer. That beer is so Underrated.

[@robhind943]

10000000%!!!!

[@robhind943]

Petition to get Half dome back. And a flag ship track beer!!

[@manmoth6299]

Great video guys, I love being able to see insights into how modern brewery's operate and what inspires them, keep up the good work!

[@liamcorey3839]

Track is a awesome brewery and the taproom is excellent. Cant wait till br back in Manny

[@DudesBrews]

My favourite brewery! Got to get a visit to the taproom sorted ASAP, thanks for a great video quite a few little brewing tips in there too 👍🏻🍻

[@honestyorkshirebeerreviews5265]

You should so go back and revisit a cask set up, like your lockdown beer in a bag but make it a pure hop bomb, recently had a vocation x Verdant cask

[@richard_lindsay]

Loved the video. The Track taproom is unbelievable. Hope you enjoyed the cask Sonoma Jonny

[@dansunder7minutebeerreview271]

These folks seem really nice, and a good brewery to boot, they seem very like a lot of the small breweries here in Pennsylvania, trying to make all kinds of awesome beer that everyone can drink.

[@DelaneysHomebrew]

Great brewery! Friendly tap room and Sonoma is just the best

[@liamcorey3839]

I was there at track and cloudwater at the same time you guys were filming

[@lukaswint7067]

Really love track, but the gold tops are my least favourite they do. Great video as always 👍

[@edmundwhite9864]

Got a can of their West Coast collab with Bagby recently: top notch

[@liamcorey3839]

I'm in the video at 1.45. I've got my back to the camera near the toilets. You can see my partner though🤣🤣

[@davidmallard8729]

I have always been slightly put off by the Milkshake IPA concept - but this Lactose IPA (or even DIPA) is something else!! Any chance that this'll become a CBC homebrew feature - complete with recipe??? Please!!!!

[@chrisrussell3131]

Best taproom in Manchester! :)

[@Big-Harry]

Nice looking tap room

[@sonic-factory]

Now I want a Track beer!

[@timpilkington9285]

Legit cracked a Sonoma right before I went on youtube and saw this

[@SavageCore6]

I'd put Siren on the list of brewers able to take on so many styles!

[@andyfinlay4833]

Would love to try one of the Gold Top beers…but what did he mean when he said said ‘Lactose is packed with protein’. Lactose is a sugar! Did he just mean the malts that they use are high in protein or are they getting the lactose from an ingredient that also contains protein??

[@stuartcarswell2815]

Great brewery and really well priced...just got 18 cans including 4 DIPAs for 60 quid

[@thomasczthomash1859]

£60 well priced!? That's over £3 per can. You can get top shelf beers for close to £2 per can now, especially when buying in bulk.

[@stuartcarswell2815]

@@thomasczthomash1859 which breweries?

[@stuartcarswell2815]

@@thomasczthomash1859 I don't think you'd get quality like deya track, verdant, overtone or cloudwater for that price unless you were buying trade

[@cobracraig666]

As a rule I don’t like Milkshake IPA’s as I find them too sickly, however the gold top range from Track does this style brilliantly imo and it’s just a nice creamy DIPA. My favourite range of beers.

[@normlang1994]

I hope you tried the stouts before you left...and they just didn't make the editing cut. 🍻 Cheers!

[@Pouchey2]

I've come back to this video and have just realised something... Why is Jonny's voice so deep? 😂

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

Hungover.

[@jhunscrown]

When I’m leaving for the day it’s hard not to scan the brewery to see who’s drinking what, especially my own recipes.

[@johnroberts1771]

we MAKE bleach bitter? Is this true? Like adding the smell to gas?

[@Adamphillips900]

Why is Sonoma nearly £1 cheaper on cask than when compared to keg?

[@jonparry6462]

It is strange, especially since it's more work. Perhaps because it doesn't keep so long once tapped?

[@davidflett2723]

Cask drinkers look at keg prices and say "don't be daft!" Sad to say it seems keg drinkers are mugs and will pay whatever price is charged. Same as charging more for lager than ale. They charge it as they can get away with it.

[@danielgrant1725]

Gasping a track gold top now 😂

[@robhind943]

Controversial opinion, but their Half Dome Pale is way better than Somona.

[@verykeen2please]

i did give up counting the miss use of "like"

[@daveswinburne7946]

"Sparklers suck"? How dare you!!!... Joking. Looks like a fab Tabroom. However, what's with the lack of music? 😲

[@nickbaker3588]

Cask is new school. IT AINT BEER IF IT AINT CASK

[@mred3525]

😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@kis1815]

kinda funny that so many UK new brewers these days brewing casks to try to please the American

[@kis1815]

and so many people that walk less than a mile a day are convinced that the best beer is the lager that all the brewers like to drink

[@ianlaker9161]

Great video as always and really interesting sounding beers and philosophy from Track. I'll have to hunt them out. Just wish they would stop punctuating every word with 'like'! The older I get, the more it like irritates me.

[@killerdude-hz2bb]

their lactose is hopefully not packed with protein... lol

[@chriscross5689]

Lactose does NOT belong in any beer.

[@jonmeyrick]

We've been making milk stouts for 100 years +

[@chrisnewton9788]

Nice video, but in the future, could you ask the people you interview to not use the word 'like' several times in every sentence. It is one of the things that annoys me about the younger generation of today, like.

[@zeveroarerules]

Don't. Put. Your. Tap. In. The. Glass. Filthy people.

[@simegeorge]

I guess you wouldn't have a pint of cask beer poured through a swan neck with a sparkler then - but you'd be missing out :)

[@TheCraftBeerChannel]

This is an old cliche and misunderstanding. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the tap touching the beer. It's done with most Cask Ale, properly poured lager and anything from a side pull tap. It allows the bartender to pour the beer without exposing it to oxygen so is in fact preferable. The taps in good bars are always spotless.