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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.

20/06/2025

📦 It's time for the weekly pile!

☀️ For anybody who hasn't buggered off to the beach yet, here's this week's sunshine-compatible bevvy lineup from , , , , , , , , and !

🍻 Most weather-appropriate is probably the absolutely stellar lager trio at the top there. Track's Hallertau Italian Pilsner, AF Arosa and STF's collab make for some high-key crispy bangers. A bright, zippy-but-malty Saaz-hopped Czech amber, tell me you're not in the mood for one of those right now.

🍑 Got some great six point somethings in the haze department too, including Burnt Mill's 𝙏𝘼𝙋𝘼𝙒𝙀𝙍𝘼 '𝟮𝟱, Beak's awesome single-hop Mosaic IPA and Verdant's Nectaron baby 𝙉𝙀𝙊𝙉 𝘾𝙊𝙇𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙎𝙋𝙍𝙀𝘼𝘿𝙄𝙉𝙂.

🥦 Flanking the can pile are two very different, more continentally-inclined bottles: Wilderness' lovely Belgian Tripel 𝙂𝙊𝙊𝘿 𝙋𝙊𝙄𝙉𝙏 (9.1%) and 's 𝙂𝙊𝙍𝙎𝙀 (6.8%), a tart, funky wild ale brewed with wild Cornish gorse. Who'd have thunk!

🌾 It's worth noting that this lineup includes some great gluten free stuff too: A lager, a hazy pale, a west coast IPA and a milk stout. A little bit of everything!

🏚️ Anyway, that's enough for today. I'll be here till 9pm if you need me, wishing I was outdoors with you lot. Peace!

https://shop.hopsandcrafts.co.uk/collections/new-arrivals ✌️🍺

06/06/2025

🛤️ Just a pair of Track IPAs that snuck in today, rounding off the weekend-ready lineup!

📷 𝘼𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙐𝙍𝙀 (7.2%) - The latest in Track's highly accomplished line of gluten free westies. This one has a double dry hop of Idaho 7 and Nelson Sauvin for that dry-but-sticky herbal marmalade vibe. Crispy!

🌟 𝙂𝙍𝙊𝙐𝙉𝘿𝙀𝘿 𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙍𝙎 (6.8%) - A particularly cool DDH NEIPA collab with Vermont-based Foam Brewers, who over the years have rightfully earned their place in the New England beer scene among much-lauded contemporaries like Hill Farmstead and The Alchemist. This one is rammed full with a Track-typical cocktail of both US and NZ hops, with an increased IBU to give it that Foam touch. Can't wait to try this one.

https://shop.hopsandcrafts.co.uk/collections/new-arrivals ✌️🍺

05/06/2025

🌦️ Happy Thursday! Here's some beer.

🗺️ The German and Belgian sections are now fully restocked! In addition we have a nice varied thwack of hoppy pale stuff from , , and , 's latest bit of alc free wizardry, a very luxurious chocolate and pistachio impy from , as well as an collab with Exeter's very own ! I've also included pics of the and drops from the end of last week -- those smoothie sours really are quite something.

🎤 It's the start of today, and our lovely neighbours are hosting some gigs so I'll be staying open later for anybody who fancies a beer or two whilst wandering around. Have a great evening!

https://shop.hopsandcrafts.co.uk/collections/new-arrivals ✌️🍺

30/05/2025

💍 I'm away at a wedding for a few days, so I've left the shop in the very capable hands of Will and Josh for the weekend!

🌟 Loads of bangers await you, including the latest from , , x , , , as well as some special west coast IPAs from Budapest beerslingers , and has only gone and released two smoothie sours at once! (Picture pending).

🏺 On a bittersweet note, we also have two of what may be the last beers from , who recently made the difficult decision to cease brewing operations for the forseeable. I promise to come and visit your lovely pub soon!

🪬 I think that covers everything for the moment. Come down and say hi to the fellas, and have a great weekend!

27/05/2025

Dropping tomorrow! The long-awaited North/South NEIPA trio of haze overlords Verdant and Track, titled 𝙁𝙇𝙐𝙓, is available to grab on the webshop now. Each beer, or "phase" if you will, is brewed with absurd quantities of the same three hops: Nelson Sauvin, Nectaron and NZH-101 respectively, with each hop showcasing in its own beer at an 8:1:1 ratio: Nelson for Phase 1, Nectaron for Phase 2 and NZH for Phase 3.

There aren't very many of these so get one while you can!

https://shop.hopsandcrafts.co.uk/collections/new-arrivals/products/verdant-x-track-flux-triple-pack-saving-10 ✌️🍺

22/05/2025

🌻 Ready for one more bank holiday? Let's go! Twenty-five new liquids for your consideration, and boy are there some goodies in here.... courtesy of Phantom Brew Co (Peacherine DIPA!), Pipelinebrewco, Verdant Brewing Co, Left Handed Giant (birthday collabs!), Sierra Nevada (Torpedos!), Arbor Ales, Pastore, Bluntrock, Brasserie Cantillon (St. Lamvinus!) and Mount St. Bernard's Abbey. Be it single hop DIPA, vegan milk stout, Czech pilsner, Lambic vinegar or just a nice bitter, there's something here that'll tickle your fancy at least a little. Dig in!

Open till 6 today :)

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16/05/2025

Just a couple of extras to fill out this week's offerings!

🐽 First up, Utopian's 𝙋𝙄𝙂 𝙁𝘼𝘾𝙀 2025 (5.2%), a collaboration with Exeter's very own Pig & Pickle Micropub for their 8th anniversary! A seldom-seen Dortmunder Export, a pale lager from my former neck of the woods in the Westphalia region of Germany -- somewhere in between a Pilsner and a Helles in terms of colour and taste, with a distinct little hit of sulphur from the region's water chemistry. Big cheers to Stephen and the P&P gang, keep being the absolute best place for a pint in Heavitree 🤘

🚚 It also bears mentioning that today's delivery of 𝙐𝙉𝙁𝙄𝙇𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙀𝘿 (4.7%) is particularly fresh -- canned literally this morning, and delivered whilst the canning run was still going. Good work to all involved 😄

Next, a pair of hoppy bois from the one and only Rivington:

🍑 𝙋𝘼𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙇 𝙎𝙀𝘼 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙍𝘼𝙉𝙌𝙐𝙄𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙔 (6.8%) - A DDH IPA hopped with Peacharine, Superdelic and Superdelic Cryo for an exceptionally soft, creamy and fruity brew. Doing what they do best!

🏖️ Also in, 𝘽𝙀𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙃𝙊𝙐𝙎𝙀 𝘼𝙁, an alcohol free hoppy pale ale brewed with the AF wizards at We Can Be Friends, hopped with Motueka, Mosaic and Simcoe. and it comes in a 500ml can!

That's all for the moment, you can get back to the sunshine now. Open till 9pm today!

https://shop.hopsandcrafts.co.uk/collections/new-arrivals ✌️🍺

14/05/2025

🏔️ A nice little beeramid of fresh drops from Beak Brewery, Sureshot Brewing, Verdant and Vault City for you. Top picks for today? Hard to decide, but probably Beak's new Strata & Luminosa-hopped DIPA 𝙇𝘼𝙔𝙀𝙍𝙎 (8%), as well as Sureshot's bizarrely named DDH pale 𝙋𝙄𝙎𝘾𝙄𝙉𝙀 (𝙀𝙃𝙀𝙃𝙀, 𝙃𝙊𝙊𝙃𝙊𝙊, 𝙀𝙐𝙂𝙃) (5.5%) -- just bask in the glory of that vaporwave can art -- both collabs with hop suppliers Indie Hops and BarthHaas respectively, brewed with fresh hand-selected batches of that good lupulin magic. Cheers!

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08/05/2025

Big ol' drippedy drop coming through!

🔮 First up, obviously we have the new Verdant IPA, brewed with the almost quaintly classic hop combo Citra and Mosaic, but with a nice whack of Riwaka thrown in to keep things complex and interesting. It's a Verdant hazy, nuff said!

🍓 Next, a bit of a treat to all of you for whom beer simply isn't silly enough: Mortalis Brewing Company from New York is back with a foursome of their incomparable smoothie sours. Thick, sweet, tangy, fruity and just downright fun, these sours have more in common with melted ice lollies than beer as we know it. And one of them is green! Get all 4 for a discount, as per.

Moving on, we have two very different brews from Beak -- and neither of them is a hoppy IPA! 𝙇𝙊𝙐𝙄𝙀 (5.2%) returns from last year as a super refreshing, style-perfect Belgian Witbier, and 𝙋𝘼𝙉𝙉𝘼 is a big ol' smoothie sour full of berries, vanilla and maple syrup (my personal kryptonite) that can easily hold its own against the madness of the Mortalis beers. Can't wait to crack one.

🏝️ Another foursome, this time from one of my favourite Manchester breweries Pomona Island Every time I revisit them I am reminded of just how good their stuff is. Here's a West coast pale, a hazy pale, a DDH IPA and Raspberry and Sabro Sour IPA (I love it when they pair up fruits and hops together). Get in!

⚗️ Next, a pair of beers from craft stalwarts Thornbridge. Both of these beers were brewed on the Burton Union Set, a historical brewing setup from the 19th century that involves gravity-fed wooden fermentation barrels. The West Coast IPA was brewed in collaboration with Burning Sky, and if that wasn't enough, some bloke in the paper said it was the best beer he'd had all week. Worth a go on that alone!

Finally, yet another foursome from yet another craft OG The Kernel, involving yet more historical beer styles such as East India Pale and Imperial Brown Stout, the precursor to the famous Russian Imperial. (I wonder what the Impy Brown would think of the Green Pistachio Ice Cream smoothie sour further up the page. He'd probably just tut and get on with his day.)

https://shop.hopsandcrafts.co.uk/collections/new-arrivals ✌️🍺

01/05/2025

...And here's some more! Nine delicious new brews, with varying levels of summery-ness, courtesy of Yonder Brewing, Overtone, MakeMake, Tartarus Beers and Cloudwater. A proper mix of stuff too, from crispy lagers and refreshing radlers to smoked mushroom and coconut cortado stouts!

Some highlights:

🎸 𝙕𝙀𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙃 (7%) - A big punchy NEIPA containing a wall-of-hops ensemble of Eclipse, El Dorado, Motueka and NZ-grown Cascade. Collaboration with Scottish metalcore band 𝗕𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻, which would lend itself to some analogy between crushing hop flavours and crushing guitar riffs. In the hands of a better writer anyway.

☀️ 𝘾𝙄𝙏𝙍𝘼 𝙐𝙉𝙄𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙎𝙀 (8%) - Fed up with Citra yet? I bloody hope not, because unlike the last beer, this is nothing but straight up worship of the OG superstar hazy hop itself. Brewed with 25g/l of the finest Citra in the Pacific Northwest, plus an extra glug of Hyperboost for good measure. Do not sleep on this one.

👑 𝘽𝘼𝙍𝙍𝙀𝙇 𝘼𝙂𝙀𝘿 𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝘼𝙍𝙏𝙃𝙐𝙍 (13.2%) - An English-style malt monster of a barleywine, brewed with golden syrup and then aged for 25 months in Rioja wine barrels. Sweet, rich, spicy, woody and complex. The ultimate antidote to all this confounded sunny weather.

🍄 𝙄𝘿𝙀𝙆𝘼'𝙎 𝙒𝙄𝙎𝙃 (7%) - In case none of that was weird enough for you, here's a stout that has been run through a tank of smoked sh*take mushrooms to impart a smoky umami flavour that plays surprisingly nicely off the base flavours. Sweet, savoury and smoky all in one unique brew!

Open till 6 today btw :)

https://shop.hopsandcrafts.co.uk/collections/new-arrivals ✌️🍻

30/04/2025

...And here's everything that trundled in over the last week!

🍺 Four funky fruity wild ales from Wilderness Brewery. Hope you like apples!

🍺 4 hazies from the incomparable Pressure Drop and Verdant Brewing Co. Timing's End has never tasted better.

🍺 A really cool west coast style pale from Woodshedding in Somerset, except brewed with English and Bavarian hops. Ultra refreshing.

🍺 A style-perfect Bavarian Helles from Cloudwater. Very nice for the weather!

🍺 More fruit 'n' funky tang from Holy Goat, Mills and Pastore.

🍺 And finally, a good honest best bitter from Hackney-based Five Points, hopped with classic Fuggle hops from Kent. Ahh, can't get more British than that!

Of course there is lots more coming this week too (including a DIPA that I am very excited for), in time for yet another sunny bank holiday weekend. Lucky you!

https://shop.hopsandcrafts.co.uk/collections/new-arrivals ✌️🍻

29/04/2025

Sorry for the radio silence over the last week everyone. Here's what we've been working on 🔥

🍻 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁𝘀 𝟮.𝟬: Now with seating!

I felt a bit greedy hogging up all that space at the front, so after a huge amount of furniture and beer crate Jenga, and utilizing a level of space efficiency previously thought impossible, the window area has been converted to an adorable little microbar!

After a successful tasting and test run of the space last week, we'll be staying open till 9pm on Fridays going forward, and see where we go from there :)

Of course now that there is a space for it, there is ample opportunity for tastings, events, bottle shares, that kind of thing. Some of these will be prearranged and require booking, but you can also hit us up if you fancy a tasting or event of your own. There's certainly a lot of beer get on with!

I've been wanting to put seating in the shop for ages, and it's so nice to finally see it come to fruition. A huge thanks to Molly's Dad who organized the refit basically single-handedly. (I helped too 😊)

Anyway, that's the shop's little early 10th birthday present. Looking forward to seeing how the space evolves and develops as life continues. Hope you come down soon to check it out!

Peace and beer ✌️🍻

Address

18-19 McCoys Arcade Fore Street
Exeter
EX43AN

Opening Hours

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

Telephone

+441392661925

Website

http://www.hopsandcrafts.co.uk/

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