Anyone know of any small breweries who will send gift packs of bottled beer in the post?

Sainsbury/Ocado/Tesco ?

or there are plenty of wine/beer websites that will do orders… think there was even some one on here who set one up a few years back

Stewart’s seem to:

http://www.stewartbrewing.co.uk/browse/Bottles_194_0_0_de_c.html

And they do some tasty stuff.

Harveys of Lewes

EDIT: Harveys not really a micro brewery. These shops have a nice selection beer boutique or utobeer

Try http://www.realale.com

It’s not a brewery, but rather a great shop just outside Twickenham that has a huge range of beers and ales from small / micro breweries and which ships them around the country.

http://www.durhambrewery.co.uk

and having sampled a fair old selection of them, I can highly recommend them.

http://www.mybrewerytap.com

Do some nice gift packs, all mail order. Had a couple from them myself for “testing” purposes, get a nice mix in the selection boxes. Good customer service too IME.

Hop Back do…..

Black Isle brewery do some very nice stuff

http://www.blackislebrewery.com/collections/all

Cairngorm brewery do too
http://www.cairngormbrewery.com/index.php?app=gbu0&ns=catshow&ref=beer

Hogs Back (not to be confused with the Hop Back 🙂 )

http://www.hogsback.co.uk/shop/category/gift-packs/

James – try peak ales at chatsworth or even thornbridge

MyBreweryTap have been very good until recently – I am in the 52 Week Beer Club and the last delivery was delayed and delayed due to what appeared to be pretty poor excuses – and I couldn’t get hold of them on their ‘helpline’ or via Facebook/Twitter to discuss the lack of delivery. In the end up I rang the orders number (and of course I got straight through).

Up till then I wouldn’t have hesitated in recommending them but now I am not so sure.

The owner is an occasional forum lurker and MTBer I believe.

the most wonderful Bowland Brewery

http://www.bowlandbrewery.com/shop/default.aspx

thornbridge

jaipur and kipling – yum

I gave some prototype beers from Brew Dog as Christmas presents.
Can’t seem them on their site any more, but they have a very interesting range of guest beers?
http://www.brewdog.com/shop/guest-beer

In defense of Mybrewerytap i had a normal order from them after the delay of my 52 week US beer club order & it arrived by courier within 2 days of order. I’d not hesitate to order from them again & have used them A LOT over the past 2 years without trouble.

Also worth a look at beermerchants.com, alebymale.com, & thebottleshop.com.

It really depends what you’re after.

Purity Brewing, purveyors of the finest ales in the land and ecologically aware too. I’ve had a couple of their minicasks – tastes just as good as from a pump at the bar.

http://www.puritybrewing.com/take-home.cfm

Mad Goose would be my top tip.