Instead of visiting the £75M Guinness brewery where they don't make Guinness why not visit the £0.25M Donnies brewery where they make Donnies.

Once Bitten, Twice Shy. Afestive treat of a red IPA. Also a public service announcement about gift boxes.

Beery excellence at @donzokobeer.bsky.social last night. An essential taproom stop in #Newcastle #BskyBeer

You (a normal guy): Sierra Celebration Me (an intellectual): The Zokes

ICYMI, Reece from @donzokobeer.bsky.social was awarded the Young Brewer of the Year award at the Brewers Choice Awards in London last week: www.appetitemag.co.uk/donzoko-brew...

A short message from our European correspondent.

This will be fun!! Our best ever Festbier. The legendary Si King's Propa pies, and Andre's schnitzel sandwiches. In our cosy little Newcastle taproom.

Currently surveying the Perle hops that go into most of our beers, today they are being picked and dried.

Off to Tettnang this week, to sniff and select some hops from the family farm we buy from. Then up to Berlin to brew using those green hops at Fuerst Wiacek. Content will ensue.

Incase you missed it, there's a live show we did with @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social online now, ft some fun stories, a brewery tour and nonsense. www.youtube.com/live/lVdbt80...

Donzoko big foam

Scientists discover which beer has the longest-lasting foam www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/08/scie... @teamdb.bsky.social

Don't forget we're LIVE on Youtube tonight at 8pm with the one and only Reece from Donzoko, purveyors of foamy beers for good times. Grab some lagers and snacks and tune in! youtube.com/live/lVdbt80...

In other news, we're having a FOAM PARTY next Friday. grab the taste-along box and join us on Youtube from 8pm!

We are having a livestream with the fellers from @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social! Get a box and tune in. www.donzoko.org/craft-beer-c...

Big Foam Grand Cru- a hot side blend of @burningskybeer.bsky.social coer de provision and big foam, fermented with lager yeast and brettanomyces on top of nelson sauvin. Light acidity, complex peach and apricot. Incredibly delicious. Launching Friday nationwide, and on the webshop now.

Our Rustic lager Big Foam is back on Friday. 40 venues nationwide. It's bitter. It's tangy it's uniquely delicious. Alongside two special versions with our favourite breweries.

EDGE OF TOWN is a 6% west coast IPA. All Simcoe, resin, bitter and bright. A lil tribute to the breweries who invented these beers, and intrepid beer fans drinking them in industrial estates on the edge of town.

RADLER🍋🍋🍋🍋 2.5% A really nice shandy. Made only with actual real fruit, barley and wheat. no junk you find in sodas or big German Radler Brands ™️ New fruits new flavours incoming 🍑🍒🍑🍒

We're having a pie party.

Sunday at Sheepfolds, trying the new @donzokobeer.bsky.social collab. with Si King

Brewing a V bitter pale ale with a new hop today, from the Hüll research centre. We are the only brewery with it in the UK!

Donzoko/Si King PROPA pale! Available in Sunderland and our taproom

Pigalle — a place in Tokyo where you can find salarymen drinking Old Speckled Hen, and regulars sipping Skyborry cider. Join Reece Hugill aka. Dr. @donzokobeer.bsky.social on a whiplash tour of one of his favourite bars. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/5/...

Bankers 2 Tokyo drift hits tomorrow.

Read on to discover my fondness for lil bottles of piss

Hiya hello. BIG NOTHING GALAXY. It's a alcohol free pale with galaxy and nelson sauvin, kinda zippy zingy and crisp too. Isotonic banger.

Picking some NZ hops from Eggers farm for some special beers this year.

Weekend beer board, new batch of Cellars! We got two bocks on!!

DONATELLO'S Italian pils Is back. Dry hopped a little warmer for smooth floral notes from petit blanc hops, crisp as owt. A springtime banger.

Made a giant mash paddle, oak and walnut, with nae glue just pins. Long may it stir our lagers.

Bank holiday beer board for your consideration, a dazzling array of styles. Premiere of a banger we made with @runawaybrewery.bsky.social

A new beer we made for our friends @thefreetradeinn.bsky.social

They cannot depict us as toys because when it comes to lager we do not play.

Thank you!

DONNIES @ THE TYNE? permo line of maybe the only nitro dark lager being made. We join our correspondent now.

Pre-orders for our latest zine; The Usual are now live! A collection of written and visual work around the dynamics between being a regular, and having a local, from the perspective of both customers and service staff. Zines will be sent out WC 5th of May! www.burumcollective.com/store/p/theu...

Thursdays are back, we've skipped spring. It's summer in Newcastle now. See you tomorrow.

New Morning- a 5.8% pale ale with Nelson from Eggers Farm.

Installed a new line of our nitro dark lager next to some plucky young upstart.

Rebooting this wee video I made about a beer I made.

Give my amber lager an oscar.

Brewing an Italian pils whilst also trying to replace two pump seals, as is tradition.

Wheat beer weather innit

Great weekend for a nitro dark lager imo.

Tomorrow in Sheffield I'm doing a pairing evening with my beers and my favourite snacks at the Old Shoe. Pls join! Tickets available from their website.

Seafood van outside the taproom today, for some crispy battered hake or a fresh cold oyster in the sunshine. Very chic.

Brace of new wheat beers just appeared in time for the sunshine. Really dialling these in now for maximum fruity refreshment.

Saloon Doors, a 6.2% west coast IPA. It's packed with Simcoe and really really bitter and good.

The work is mysterious and important