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+1 for tiny rebel. Also omnipollo if you want something very different. (Pricey but my favourite)
Good thread with lots of new places to try. Thanks.
Here’s three I’d recommend (had deliveries from all recently - were pretty quick):
Fyne Ales https://www.fyneales.com/
Keswick Brewery https://www.keswickbrewery.co.uk/
Hawkshead https://www.hawksheadbrewery.co.uk/
All make cracking beers.
Keswick Breweries ipa is a really good one especially if you aren’t so keen on the “over hopped” us style.
Arundel Brewery and Langham Brewery are both fairly local to me and make some proper nice beer. Arundel especially do a good mix of solid classic beers plus modern interesting craft stuff.
https://www.wildbeerco.com/ are a favourite of mine. They provide the beer at Farm Festival and it's great to have decent beer in a field.
https://www.skinnersbrewery.com/ are my brewery of choice when holidaying in Cornwall. We always swing by the brewery and pick up a couple of crates of Portleven.
Hawkshead have just made most (if not all ) of their staff redundant including the brewers (rather than furloughed). So you might not be seeing much of their beer around.
https://mobile.twitter.com/hawksheadbrewer
For recommendations
I’d suggest
Cloudwater
Pomona island
Track brewery
All from Manchester and all doing big hopped beers (among other styles)
Cloudwaters online store has stock of the other 2.
Brass Castle in Malton North Yorkshire
Abbeydale in Sheffield
Banks's Golden Bitter, still 90p a pint in Tesco. Quite a decent beer.
The Kernel Brewery in SE London. I've had a case of Table Beer and Bierre de Saisson.
Got some Twickenham Grandstand arriving next week.
BAD co also very good - all their beers get the thumbs up from me.
They used to own/run Blind Jack's in Knaresborough in case anyone is local!
Not a fan of IPAs at all, but if you are then Brew Dog do countless different beers that all taste of citra hop to varying degrees, plus they're looking after their staff and making hand sanitizer for NHS Grampian.
Have you got the Untappd app? Good for checking in and rating beers, and it might suggest something you'd never even consider otherwise.
Pressure Drop, Cloudwater, Verdant, DEYA, Northern Monk all do some excellent beers and have all ramped up their direct sales.