For those of you who haven’t heard of it (or looked at our places to buy beer page) My brewery tap is an online beer shop that sells beer directly from breweries, so when you place an order your beer comes straight from the people that made it, this in theory gives you access to many different microbreweries that you might not otherwise have access to.
The thing that grabbed me though was their 52 week beer club, the concept is nothing new or ground breaking but I think this has the potential to be the best of the bunch, Unlike most of the existing beer clubs My Brewery Tap select beers from certain microbreweries and send them direct to your door every quarter, so you end up with 52 different beers from around the country. So what you should end up with is lots of new and different beers that you haven’t tried, where as some of the other beer clubs send out beers that are readily available in your local supermarket.
My first delivery arrived a couple of weeks ago and I haven’t had chance to write about it until now, It contained 13 beers, most of which I have never even heard of and a couple from places I’ve heard of and wanted to try, The beers i got were:
- Breconshire Cribyn
- Brentwood hope and glory
- Burton Porter
- Eccleshall brewery top totty
- Empire strikes back
- Empire golden warrior
- Fulstow Village life
- Meantime London stout
- Old Bear Original
- Penpoint Roughtor
- Quantock Sunraker
- Saffron blonde
- Tring Death or glory
- Wooden hand cornish buccaneer
There was also a free glass and bottle opener along with comprehensive tasting notes and a little brewery guide book which was great!
My Brewery Tap Case #1
So is it something that i would recommend – hell yeah, provided they stick to microbreweries and the beers are great quality then they are on to a winner, I’ve already subscribed (twice..one for me and one for someone as a gift – hopefully they won’t read this, if they do, no you can’t have them early!) at the current price of £69 for the 52 bottles i think its a pretty competitive price and would make a great Christmas gift for the real ale lover in your life.
You can buy beers on their website here or follow them on twitter here
It looks a great deal but I would find it hard to justify the upfront cost, maybe if you could pay quarterly that would make it easier to swallow.
Have you tried any of them yet?
The way I looked at it was it’s similar to what ive been spending on another website every now and then so it was worth a go lol.
Not tried them yet but heard good things about them, i will be starting on them very soon so expect to see full reviews of each beer!
I’ve placed my order for it now after getting @Christopher_R to go halves, we’ll do tasting sessions together!
My second case has just arrived with some interesting beers in plus a couple of extra treats one of which has now been scoffed!
very impressed so far!