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Sureshot Brewing

United Kingdom · Regional · Known for Pale Ale
Known for Pale Ale

Sureshot Brewing is a small-batch brewery in central Manchester, set in railway arches on Sheffield Street beneath Piccadilly station, with its taproom in the arch next door. It was founded in 2020 by James Campbell, previously head brewer at Marble and Cloudwater, together with Michael Forde; the first beers under its own name followed in 2022. The focus is on hazy pale ales and IPAs, backed by lagers, imperial stouts and many collaborations. New beers arrive in quick succession under pop-culture names, while the pale ales Milson and Small Man's Wetsuit stay on as the brewery's classics.

6Beers
3Styles
4.8%Avg ABV
2020Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
0%
catalogue avg 46%

Beers by Sureshot Brewing

6 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Sureshot Brewing brew across 3 style families.

Signature · 6 beers
Pale Ale 4Lager 1IPA 1

Across these 6 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

fruity
5 of 6 beers
tropical
5 of 6 beers
hoppy
5 of 6 beers
refreshing
5 of 6 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:

typical for similar stylesSureshot Brewing
in no beersin every beer
berry
in 4 of 6 · typical similar styles brewery: fewer than 1 in 5
Far more berry than typical.
smooth
in 1 of 6 · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Notably less smooth than typical.
malty
in 1 of 6 · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Notably less malty than typical.
How we measure this

Two thresholds are at work here:

  • The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
  • The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.

A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 64%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
1 / 6
beers above the median
#3194
best ranked beer
Milson

Their beers place in the Top 64% of the catalogue on average, across 6 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Sureshot Brewing

Sureshot Brewing is a small-batch brewery in central Manchester, set in railway arches on Sheffield Street beneath Piccadilly station, with its taproom in the arch next door. It was founded in 2020 by James Campbell, previously head brewer at Marble and Cloudwater, together with Michael Forde; the first beers under its own name followed in 2022. The focus is on hazy pale ales and IPAs, backed by lagers, imperial stouts and many collaborations. New beers arrive in quick succession under pop-culture names, while the pale ales Milson and Small Man's Wetsuit stay on as the brewery's classics.

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Manchester · United Kingdom
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