Hops and Crafts

Hops and Crafts The official page of Hops and Crafts bottle shop located in McCoys Arcade. Bringing better beer to the good people of Exeter.

Hops and Crafts is Exeter’s premier craft beer bottle shop. Founded on the belief that the people of Exeter deserve better beer choices, the shop features over 200 of the best craft beers from around the UK, Belgium and the USA.. With a wide array of beer styles to choose from, Hops and Crafts is sure to have something for you or the beer-lover in your life. Whether you’re a full-blown hophead looking for high IBU’s or just looking to try something different, your new favourite beer is waiting.

...And we're back!Fridges 4 and 5 are in their hibernation era, Ötzi the Monstera has managed to sprout a new leaf throu...
10/01/2025

...And we're back!

Fridges 4 and 5 are in their hibernation era, Ötzi the Monstera has managed to sprout a new leaf through 2 weeks of neglect, and the first beers of the year have rolled in. Bring 2025, our humble little shop's tenth (!) year of operation. Mad!

New (old) opening hours too, We're back to good old Tuesday - Saturday, 11 - 5. Ahh the nostalgia.

Happy January! 😊

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Merry Christmas!
25/12/2024

Merry Christmas!

Hoppy Christmas Eve!Big thanks to Will for making it through yesterday's exceptionally busy shift -- a perfect excuse to...
24/12/2024

Hoppy Christmas Eve!

Big thanks to Will for making it through yesterday's exceptionally busy shift -- a perfect excuse to crack open something nice at the end 😊

Thanks too to Josh, Molly, and everybody else whose help this year has been invaulable.

Luckily there is still a whole bunch of great stuff in for anybody looking to grab some last minute brews. I'm here till 4-ish, so still plenty of time. There was in fact a delivery of a couple of splendid Pipelinebrewco DIPAs, along with some other bits... fresh beer till the bitter end! (online store inclusion pending)

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4 days till Christmas, and we're here for you every day from 11 until (and including) Xmas Eve ❤️Still, new beers are ro...
21/12/2024

4 days till Christmas, and we're here for you every day from 11 until (and including) Xmas Eve ❤️

Still, new beers are rolling in! First up, some last-minute Pomona Island liquids: 2 Goses, a Yuzu & Strawberry Sour DIPA, and a cheeky lil pilsner to wash it all down.

Next, some even last minute-r offerings from the beer alchemists at Omnipollo:

𝙉𝙊𝙉-𝘼𝙇𝘾𝙊𝙃𝙊𝙇𝙄𝘾 𝘽𝙄𝘼𝙉𝘾𝘼 (0.3%) - Yes, you read it right. Omni's famous crazy Lassi Goses, except alcohol free, in two variants: Blueberry Maple Pancake and Raspberry Peach Marshmallow. Perfect if you're just not too bothered with the whole "beer" aspect of beer.

𝘾𝙃𝙐𝙍𝘾𝙃 𝙇𝙐𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙅𝘼𝘾𝙆 (14%) - Another original BA offering from the hallowed Church of Omnipollo, this one is a collab with Florida stout legends 3 Sons Brewing Co., who some of you might recognize from our 9 Year Anniversary as the brewery behind that spectacular BA impy we had on. This imperial maple coffee stout has been blended together from a myriad of different barrels including Heaven Hill, Willet Family Estate and Phantom Spirits rum barrels. A very special bottle this one.

See you in the next couple of days!

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Open till 7pm today! Still plenty of time to come down and grab one of these fresh beauts: 's 𝘽𝙐𝙁𝙁𝘼𝙇𝙊 𝙏𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙀 𝘽𝘼 𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙇 ...
19/12/2024

Open till 7pm today! Still plenty of time to come down and grab one of these fresh beauts: 's 𝘽𝙐𝙁𝙁𝘼𝙇𝙊 𝙏𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙀 𝘽𝘼 𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙇 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝘾𝙃𝙄𝘼𝙏𝙊 (10.3%), an imperial hazelnut praline and coffee porter that has been aged for 12 months in freshly emptied Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels. Very limited stock! (Especially since I'm having one of them tonight lol)

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📦 Last big delivery day before Christmas! New beer from Brasserie Cantillon, Trial & Ale, Brouwerij De Ranke, Wylam Brew...
18/12/2024

📦 Last big delivery day before Christmas! New beer from Brasserie Cantillon, Trial & Ale, Brouwerij De Ranke, Wylam Brewery, Pressure Drop Brewing, Floc. Brewing, Verdant Brewing Co, Bluntrock, Beak Brewery, We Can Be Friends, Cloudwater Brew Co, Gravity Well, Wiper and True, Azvex Brewing Co., Moor and Andspach & Hobday, as well as mega restock of Belgian essentials, and the leviathan host of German beers whose social media presence is beyond my tagging abilities.

Just a couple more beers to trundle in before the weekend, and they're good-uns too :)

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Just a couple of little (big) bevvies that snuck in yesterday: One AF stout and 2 very-not-AF barrel-aged bangers!🍫 𝙇𝙀𝙎𝙎...
14/12/2024

Just a couple of little (big) bevvies that snuck in yesterday: One AF stout and 2 very-not-AF barrel-aged bangers!

🍫 𝙇𝙀𝙎𝙎𝙀𝙍 𝙀𝙑𝙄𝙇 (0.5%) - AF chocolate stout from Mash Gang with vanilla, oats and lots of sweet & sour cherry juice. No boring Nolo here.

⛈️ 𝘿𝘼𝙍𝙆 & 𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙇𝙊𝙐𝙎 𝙉𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏𝙎 (12.5%) - 2023 vintage of Siren Craft Brew's beloved dark ale blend, aged for 18 months in Wild Turkey, Buffalo Trace, Jim Beam and Woodford Reserve barrels before bottling. Rich, complex and satisfying liquid fudge in a bottle.

💡 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 𝙂𝘼𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙀𝙍 (13.6%) - A 2024 addition to Siren's BA lineup, this massive barleywine has received treatments of cypress and maple wood before being aged in Heaven Hill bourbon barrels for 46 (!) months. Woody, spicy, fruity, vanilla-forward with a satisfying dry finish.

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Open till 7pm today!Once again, there is far more beer than I could ever do proper justice with words, so here's another...
12/12/2024

Open till 7pm today!

Once again, there is far more beer than I could ever do proper justice with words, so here's another wall of brewery mentions for you lovely peeps:
Pressure Drop, Floc. Brewing, Overtone Brewing Co, We Can Be Friends, Vault City, Track Brewing Co., Schlenkerla, Rivington, Burnt Mill Brewery, Burning Sky, Woodshedding, The Kernel.
(Wasn't that fun?)

There's lots of everything obviously, including some truly awesome gluten free and alc free options. No longer are these marginalized afterthoughts among brewers!

Other than that, there's hazies, some big pastry and barrel-aged stouts, stoopid smoothie sours, but also some milds and other classic English beers for all you no-nonsense sensible folk.

Happy whatever day it is!

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✨ Didn't quite make it here in time for yesterday's megapost, but here's a crop of fresh DEYA to round off the week's go...
05/12/2024

✨ Didn't quite make it here in time for yesterday's megapost, but here's a crop of fresh DEYA to round off the week's goodies!

🐊 𝙃𝙊𝙆𝙐𝙈 (4.6%) - A reworking of Deya's lovely porter Hokum Stomp, still every bit as rich, biscuity and quaffable.

👁️‍🗨️ 𝙎𝙊𝙐𝙇 𝙎𝙀𝘼𝙍𝘾𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙂 (3.8%) - Session pale hopped with Azacca, Idaho 7 and Strata with a pinch of Vienna malt in the mash bill.

🎙️ 𝙄𝙉𝙑𝙊𝙄𝘾𝙀 𝙈𝙀 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙈𝙄𝘾𝙍𝙊𝙋𝙃𝙊𝙉𝙀 (6%) - Citra & Mosaic hazy IPA, about as classic as it gets!

🧶 𝙎𝘼𝙏𝙐𝙍𝘼𝙏𝙀𝘿 𝙄𝙉 𝙈𝙊𝙏𝙐𝙀𝙆𝘼 (8%) - DIPA with Motueka, and more Motueka. Lots of Motueka. Motueka.

By the way we're open till 7pm today. Peace!

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☝️ Oh God get your swiping finger ready.New beer from Verdant, Cloudwater, FLOC, Pastore, Vault City, Duration, Sierra N...
04/12/2024

☝️ Oh God get your swiping finger ready.

New beer from Verdant, Cloudwater, FLOC, Pastore, Vault City, Duration, Sierra Nevada, Ideal Day, Tegernsee, Verhaeghe, Brouwerij De Halve Maan, Schlenkerla and De Glazen Toren, with additional collab help from Põhjala, Mikerphone Brewing, Dos Kiwis, KOM, Green Cheek and Lost and Grounded.

(...and breathe.)

Um, that's it for the moment really. Oh yeah Celebration IPA is back too. And we're open on Sundays now!

Cool. I'm gonna have a glass of water now I think.

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🎄 Opening hours for December and Xmas/New Years. We'll be open 7 days a week in the lead up to the 25th, and we'll be st...
04/12/2024

🎄 Opening hours for December and Xmas/New Years. We'll be open 7 days a week in the lead up to the 25th, and we'll be staying open later on Thursdays due to that late night shopping thing that seems to be popular this time of year. Happy December!

☔ Gotta get down on Friday. Why you ask? For all this new stuff of course, courtesy of Pressure Drop, Saint Mars of the ...
29/11/2024

☔ Gotta get down on Friday. Why you ask? For all this new stuff of course, courtesy of Pressure Drop, Saint Mars of the Desert, Beak Brewery, Basqueland Brewing and Galway Bay Brewery.

Tip of the hat to today's brewery collaborators too, namely Arpus' immense fruit pastry sour with Beak, and Basqueland's big birthday pudding stout with impy stalwarts Amundsen.

Looking forward to the weekend! (weekend)

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🎄 Come and get em! To everybody who preordered, the 𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑 (TM) is now ready for pickup!To...
26/11/2024

🎄 Come and get em! To everybody who preordered, the 𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑 (TM) is now ready for pickup!

To everybody who ordered delivery, a few are already out on their way to you, with a few more heading out in the course of the week. Let me know if you have any questions!

Also, a couple of fun Azvex Brewing Co. birthday beers rolled in today.

🍧 𝙎𝘾𝙊𝙊𝙋 (6%) - Chocolate & Cherry Ice Cream Sour. Obnoxiously thick, sweet, tangy and soupy as the nights are long.

🍅 𝘾𝘼𝘾𝘼𝙊𝘿𝙀𝙈𝙊𝙉 𝙄𝙄 (12%) - It's back! Original Cacaodemon was the first impy I ever purchased for Hops and Crafts, shortly after taking over last year. Add to this my near-religious love of the old Doom games and it would have been wrong of me not to get the sequel in. Chocolate & Caramel Imperial Stout with Salvadorian Cacao from 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 in Liverpool. Gonna rip and tear through this one!

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🌞 Hey there! Here a couple of little extras that rolled in this morning.🍺 Utopian's beloved ČERNÉ SPECIÁLNÍ (5.9%) is ba...
22/11/2024

🌞 Hey there! Here a couple of little extras that rolled in this morning.

🍺 Utopian's beloved ČERNÉ SPECIÁLNÍ (5.9%) is back with a funky new black and yellow can, as well as their brand new core AF pilsner. (0.5%)

🌈 It's been far too long since we had some Polly's in the shop, so here are a couple of their lovely hazies, 𝙂𝙊𝙇𝘿𝙍𝙊𝙊𝙈 (5.6%) and 𝙋𝙐𝙍𝘼 𝙑𝙄𝘿𝘼 (6%).

Happy Friday!

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⛄ Hey, the sun's out! (Sort of)For those of you brave enough to slide down to the shop today, we've got an absolutely ri...
21/11/2024

⛄ Hey, the sun's out! (Sort of)

For those of you brave enough to slide down to the shop today, we've got an absolutely righteous drop of new beers. 22 in total!

A few highlights:

🌉 Some lovely oldschool California IPAs and stouts, including Sierra Nevada's 𝘾𝙀𝙇𝙀𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 (6.8%) and my beloved Firestone Walker 𝙐𝙉𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝙅𝘼𝘾𝙆 (7%), the very IPA that got me interested in beer all those years ago. Ahh the nostalgia 🤗

🐝 Mancunian haze masters Track are turning 10! Here are 3 of their very extensive series of anniversary DIPA collabs, featuring the brewing skills of Green Cheek, Range and Other Half.

🌄 A trio from local beer daddies Stannary, including their excellent 3-hop NEIPA 𝙈𝙀𝙀𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙊𝙁 𝙈𝙄𝙉𝘿𝙎 (7%) and their bourbon barrel-aged sherbet lemon sour 𝙇𝘼𝙐𝙂𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝘼𝙏 𝘾𝙇𝙊𝙐𝘿𝙎 (4%). If their previous BA sours are anything to go by, this will be super crushable and refreshing!

🌆 The Kernel's 𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙇 𝘽𝙍𝙊𝙒𝙉 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙐𝙏 (9.6%), based on a Victorian London recipe like so many of their other dark offerings. This one might be my favourite beer of theirs bar none.

Plus heaps and heaps of other stuff from AleSmith, Firestone Walker, Yonder, Verdant, Wiper and True and Tynt Meadow. Come check it out! (Or go online if you don't feel like braving the slush.)

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We'll be open for a couple of hours tomorrow for anybody looking to pick up a few tinnies on their way around the flea. ...
16/11/2024

We'll be open for a couple of hours tomorrow for anybody looking to pick up a few tinnies on their way around the flea. See you then! 🍻🤘

⛄Is everybody excited for the Christmas Market?There's always so much to see and do, so I've drawn up a handy little map...
15/11/2024

⛄Is everybody excited for the Christmas Market?
There's always so much to see and do, so I've drawn up a handy little map to help you get the best out of this year's offerings.
Happy hunting! ✨

Delivery day!🎈 First up of course is the big launch of 's 7𝙩𝙝 𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙄𝙉𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙔 𝙏𝙍𝙄𝙊:♾️ 𝘿𝘿𝙃 𝙋𝘼𝙇𝙀 (5.4%) - 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 coll...
13/11/2024

Delivery day!

🎈 First up of course is the big launch of 's 7𝙩𝙝 𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙄𝙉𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙔 𝙏𝙍𝙄𝙊:

♾️ 𝘿𝘿𝙃 𝙋𝘼𝙇𝙀 (5.4%) - 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 collab using an increased all-cryo hop bill of Mosaic and Citra.

♾️ 𝘿𝘿𝙃 𝙄𝙋𝘼 (6.3%) - Beak collab hopped with a mighty cocktail of Cryo Citra, Cryo Mosaic, Cryo Idaho 7, CGX Azacca and Strata.

♾️ 𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙇 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙐𝙏 (11%) - Rich, sweet Azvex collab with generous additions of Venezuelan Cacao, Madagascan Vanilla and just a touch of Brazilian Tonka.

Next up, a very mismatched trio of festivity-adjacent brews from Cloudwater, 𝗗𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲 and Vault City:

🎁 𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙋𝙔 𝘾𝙃𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙈𝘼𝙎 (3.4%) - 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿's classic session pale, given the Christmas treatment of candied orange peel for bigger flavour and a hint of sweetness.

🍫 𝘿𝘿𝙁 𝘾𝙃𝙐𝙍𝙍𝙊𝙎 (15%) - 𝗩𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆's latest hedonistic double-dunked deep-fried churros impy, which exists solely to deliver wave after wave of thick pastry, cinnamon, brown sugar and chocolate in liquid form. Very sweet!

🏺 𝙊𝙀𝙍𝘽𝙄𝙀𝙍 𝙎𝙋𝙀𝘾𝙄𝘼𝙇 𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙀𝙍𝙑𝘼 (10%) - Very small batch run of 𝗗𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲's famous Oud Bruin, ABV-supercharged and aged in Amarone red wine barrels for 12 months. Not one to be missed 😋

Finally, for those looking for something completely different, we have a quadfecta of lambic nano-blendery 𝗛𝗲𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗳's finest fruity funk.

🍾 𝙊𝙐𝘿𝙀 𝙂𝙐𝙀𝙐𝙕𝙀 (7%) - Traditional blend of young and old lambics.

🍹 𝙈𝙄𝙍𝘼𝘽𝙀𝙇𝙇𝙀 (7.1) - Blend of young and old lambics macerated with Mirabelle plums from the Alsace wine region.

🍑 𝙋𝙀𝙎𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙍𝙄𝙉𝘼 (6.2%) - Blend of 1 and 2 year-old lambics with maceration of peach & nectarine.

🍇 𝙈𝙐𝙎𝘾𝘼𝘽𝙀𝙇𝙇𝘼 (6.9%) - Maceration of lambics with mirabel plums and muscat grapes from the Alsace wine region.

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18-19 McCoys Arcade Fore Street
Exeter
EX43AN

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Monday 11am - 5pm
Tuesday 11am - 5pm
Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm

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