Good Spirits Wine & Beer

20/03/2025

Don’t forget, we’re not ALL about beer.
There’s a whole ‘nother side of the shop, and it’s just as exciting!
So, let’s have a break from our regularly scheduled ‘beers on a shelf’ posts, with this:

A little selection of some of the wines that we’ll have open for tasting on Saturday afternoon, round the corner in tasting room at our & Company In-store pour. Yes, all of these and many more will be open for your delight and delectation.

Come see us, hang out, have a chat, taste some wines. It’s going to be a very nice time.

20/03/2025

Look at these beauties positively glowing in the morning sun, as if to say ‘don’t worry pal, work will be done soon enough and we’ll be here for you, we’re going to be delicious come the golden hour’… that’s certainly what they’re saying to me.

Beautiful cans, beautiful beer. Drink them in.

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20/03/2025

There’s so many fresh new beers today that you’ll have to forgive us if we don’t have time to give you the lowdown on each and every one. Let’s start with the latest batch of silly sours from Vault City and a fresh Hazy Pale and a delicious smoky QUADRUPLE Chilli Imperial Stout from Otherworld.

Stay tuned for more! 📻

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18/03/2025

It’s the start of another big week for exciting deliveries, and whilst there’s a focus on the NEW in the next couple of days today is about the classics.

1. Still smokin’
A welcome rauchbier return, with a broad spread of Schlenkerla and a cheeky wee Scottish outlier.

2. Dark beer for bright days.
Another couple of 🇩🇪 all timers and a much more modern favourite.

Still no sign of a dark beer emoji, so we’ll sign off with the traditional 🍻

06/03/2025

Spring is fair springing today, eh?
The sun is out and the beers are in, maybe you could combine the two.

4 new Holy Goats: a golden sour, a blood orange sour, a date porter and a smoked rye stout.

More smoke in the form of Simple Things Fermentations new collaboration with Croft 3, a peat smoked Brown Ale.

Vault City turning their usual line up in its head with just one sour and THREE stouts.
Seems like we have been waiting for some time for some fresh stout and they all turn up in time for the most clement weather of the year.

Aaaaaaaaand if that’s all a bit dark then there’s a rebrew of Overtone’s West Coast Pale ‘Interstate’, an Amarillo laced GLUTEN FREE Pale Ale from Weekend Project (500ml of the stuff no less) and a hazy Red IPA from Northern Monk.

Our doors are open, our shelves (and our hearts) are full and we’re here until 7PM.

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05/03/2025

LOTS of new deliveries today, on both sides of the shop. Stay tuned for some of the new stuff, but we thought that we should really mention the return of these all time favourites from Moutard.

We love them, you love them, they’re here for you now.🥂

(hurry, before our colleagues round the corner snaffle them all)

22/02/2025

Some somewhat unexpected sunshine + a somewhat unexpected cider/perry drop = a very nice Saturday thanksverymuch.

3 Mills/Oliver’s collaborations, the latest iteration of Gold Rush, a welcome return for The Last Hurrah (an absolutely beautiful Perry made in 2001. Yes, you read that right) and 2 new bottles from Ross-On-Wye.

All available in the shop and online now.

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21/02/2025

It’s nearly the weekend, so here’s a roundup of some of this week’s arrivals for you!

There’s a couple of local winners, some fun cans containing even more fun liquid, sours both silly and serious, there’s juicy, there’s bitter, there’s Czech lager that’s actually Czech, there’s a big barrel aged Belgian, reader: there’s LOADS.

One of those weeks where we truly believe that there’s something for every single beer lover.

It’s absolutely miserable out there, so come and see us, buy yourself a treat or two and keep cosy over the weekend ahead. 🍻

19/02/2025

👋 This week are back with 4 in their Sweet Shop Sour series. Fizzy Cherries, Peach Rings, White Chocolate Raspberry Snowies & - personal fizzy faves - Flying Saucers are all covered. 🍬🍒🍑❄️🛸

A taste of childhood, strictly for grown ups.

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15/02/2025

We are delighted to be the only Scottish stockist of this beautiful bottle from , a tribute to the Pommeaus of the North West of France straight out of their little corner of Herefordshire.

Not strictly true to style, they refer to this as faux Pommeau, FOMO for short (reader, I laughed).

Already causing somewhat of a stir amongst staff and customers alike, these are in short supply. So, don’t get FOMO, get FOMO.

13/02/2025

How about a bunch of flowers for your beloved? Or - for that matter - for yourself, self love is important too!

Stay tuned for more Valentines inspiration (not that we’re suggesting that you need it, but just in case you do)… ❤️💝❤️‍🔥❣️👀

05/02/2025

It’s that time again, 3 new Vault City for your delight and delectation. A Lemon Ice Tea Table Sour coming in at 3.4%, a Blueberry & Tayberry Session Sour at 4.8% and Chocolate & Honeycomb (remind you of anything?) Imperial STOUT - yes, you read that right, a STOUT - at a quite frankly ridiculous 15%

All sounding pretty tasty this time round, so come get some before they all disappear to staff. 🍻

28/01/2025

Just in case you didn’t spot these in our stories last night, we just got the latest batch of Holy Goats in for your delight and delectation.

Crypt Witch is a barrel aged Flanders Red with sour cherries and honey, Rondo Vines is a beer/wine hybrid, aged in grape skins for that natty funk, Shipwreck Stout - a collaboration with Epochal - is a recreation of a beer found in bottles rescued from a shipwreck in the Clyde(!), and last but by no means least there’s their 180 Shilling Ale, a 12% Barleywine brewed with Newbarns.

In our ever so humble opinion their beers just keep getting better, so treat yourself to one or two seeing as it’s payday.

28/01/2025

(You might think you have seen this post already, but this time the photo actually contains all 7 beers rather than 6. It was our staff night out last night so I may not be working at full capacity… 👀😴)

Happy Birthday to Polly’s, 7 beers for 7 years! In celebration they have done collaborations with some big names and some new faces, there’s:

A passionfruit & lime sour with Pastore, a West Coaster with Duration, an IPA with Spookton, a White IPA with Thornbridge, a DIPA with Sureshot, a TIPA with Pomona Island and an Impy Stout with Lost Cause. Choose your favourite or collect the set, they’re all on the shelf and the website NOW.

27/01/2025

23/01/2025

If you’re needing to stock up on some fresh beer before we close for the day tomorrow then we have LOTS of fresh new options for you. Our Scottish section is in rude health, with the latest Overtone IPA ‘Gimme Some’ and the full complement of Mains’ range.

English beer has also had a nice refresh with 3 new Baron, 3 new Rivington and 4 new Pastore (including a couple of lesser seen styles from them).

Aaaaaaaaand for the dark beer lovers there’s a new collaboration between Kees and Emperors, no prizes for guessing that it’s a big Impy Stout.

For those asking, the dog in our previous PSA isn’t just an image that we nabbed from the ‘net, that’s Ronnie Barker, Oor David’s daft dug enjoying a rather stiff breeze a while back. Just in case you didn’t see that one, we’ll mention once again that we will be closed tomorrow due to the severe weather warnings and back open again on Saturday morning at 10AM.

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23/01/2025

PSA!

Hi all, due to the severe weather warning we will be closed all day TOMORROW for the safety of staff and customers.

We’re here for all of your wine & beer requirements until 7 tonight though, and back open at 10AM on Saturday.

Stay safe and we look forward to seeing you all soon.

22/01/2025

Hiya sweeties!

Today’s sours are brought to you by the letter V: Vault City, Valentine’s Day & Vimto.