Another shout for Dancing Duck, Thornbridge and Purple Moose.

(Pedant alert – Blue Monkey is just over the border in Nottinghamshire. Actually just behind IKEA – top tip for bored husbands 😎)

Another shout for Dancing Duck, Thornbridge and Purple Moose.

(Pedant alert – Blue Monkey is just over the border in Nottinghamshire. Actually just behind IKEA – top tip for bored husbands 😎)

Beer hawk or flavourly might be the easiest option tbh
Should be eady to either buy a selection box or make ul am order based on the recommendations on here

We are selling an insane amont of bottles and draught. At least double our normal volume maybe even 3x. Mostly direct to joe public plus increased vol to indy shops and chains

Our little brewery shop takings are 10x normal

@yourguitarhero totally agree. Have a look at Six Degrees North. The head dude learned his craft in Belgium and brought his expertise back to Scotland. The fact he is a cyclist and the some of the beers have cycling related names is an added bonus.

These guys did some nice ales when I visited a couple of years back, https://shop.fyneales.com/

Also like my local brewery, particularly the speciale, https://www.bramptonbrewery.co.uk/shop/

As others have said Thornebridge and Abbeydale are also good.

+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.

Another vote for Fyne Ales

These guys just don’t brew a bad beer imo – Stewart Brewing

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.

https://wearebad.co/shop/

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.