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Plymouth’s Independent Beer Shop & Bar Est 2016• Beer, Cider & Bourbon • Bottles, Cans & Draught • Dogs Welcome Plymouth’s independent beer shop and bar.
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Selling over 300 different beers and ciders from some of the best breweries in the world. Dogs welcome. Closed early January, back open Saturday 17 January

09/09/2026

Nine new Track Brewing Co. In the fridges today.
A bitter, West Coast pale, two IPAs three double IPAs and two gold top double IPAs.
Open 1pm-9pm Tuesday-Saturday this week

08/09/2026

Here's our taps for a full week of Tuesday to Saturday 1pm-9pm. A strong and varied line up to kick the week off. It includes fresh on Fourman Flume IPA, Holy Goat Sabra Cadabra Stout and Ross on Wye Raison D'Être cider.

This Saturday at 7:30pm we have Portuguese beer tasting - IPA and smoothie sours with four beers from Ophiussa from Setúbal. £17.50 to try:
-Wai Hua 7% NZ hopped hazy IPA
-Fakhfakhina 5% smoothie sour based on Egyptian fruit cocktail
-Aurora 5% smoothie sour with Alphonso mango, pineapple and apricot
-Tehtys 5% smoothie sour collaboration with a Brazilian brewery. Mango, banana, raspberry and blackcurrant.
Message to book now.

05/09/2026

A reminder we are closed today. Our SATO x Vessel Beer Festival has now sold out too.

See most of you at the festival in Alma Yard at 2:30pm to 9:30pm.

For those who left it too late to get a ticket, we're back open in the shop on Tuesday

04/09/2026

Here's our Mills Brewing vintage bottle pours line up at Sato X Vessel Beer Festival tomorrow at Alma Yard.

We'll pour these in order, so once the bottles of the first beer run out, we'll move onto the next one. With the final bottle pours being Stand Together.

We'll start pouring these at 4pm giving you time to settle into the kegs and cask we're pouring.

Here's the line up!
Glass blend One 4.4% 2 tokens- Vintage dry hopped sour

Vatted Porter 5.8% 2 tokens - Blend of two dark beers In wine barrels

Picture Pot blend two 6% 2 tokens -Blend of Two sours aged cider & whisky casks

Today blend TWO 5% 2 tokens - A British take on Belgian Gueuze

Spectre Sisters blend TWO 5.8% 2 tokens -Sour aged on in ex bourbon casks

Stand together white 11% 3 tokens - Strong sour aged in Bordeaux white wine barrel

03/09/2026

Beer announcement for our SATO x Vessel Beer Festival this Saturday 5 September.

I've just been over to Alma Yard to tap the two Left Handed Giant Brewing Co. casks we're pouring at the festival. Dark Mild 3.4% and Changing Tides 4.5% Hoppy Spelt Ale

Also we're excited to announce we've teamed up with Wilful Beer and they will be attending the festival with a couple of West Coast hoppy beers.

Our final announcement is two new beers from the wonderful The Brewery of St Mars of the Desert with Herbst 4.2% Lager and Kirschewälder a 4.4% smoked Rotbier.

Tickets are still available but moving towards a sell out. so don't wait on it! Buy in person at SATO or Vessel or online via SATO's intstagram link

More info about tokens. A pour is one third a pint, all the kegs, casks and cider are one or two tokens (Mills vintage bottles are three tokens). We've managed to balance it so that if did you try all the beers, the cost is almost identical to how much those beers would cost in Vessel.

The tokens are available in multiples of five for £10 (£2 each) or individually as £2.50.

The starting line up in full (we have a few other kegs waiting in the wings if you complete some of these):

KEG
Azvex - Lethal Dose IPA 6.80%
Holy Goat - HoneyFang Fruit Sour 8.00%
Holy Goat - Sabra Cadabra Stout 5.30%
Ideal Day - Precious Time West Coast IPA 5.20%
Track - Same Stories IPA 6.50%
Wilful - Amarillo West Coast IPA 4.50%
Wilful - New West Coast IPA 5.60%
St Mars Of The Desert - Herbst Lager 4.2%
St Mars Of The Desert- Kirschewälder Smoked Red Lager 4.4%
Wild Beer - Beyond Modus VI Barrel Aged Sour 8.00%
Northern Monk - Death Coffee Edition Imperial Stout 12.00%
Bluntrock - Kanpai GF Lager 5.00%

CASK
Left Handed Giant - Dark Mild 3.40%
Left Handed Giant - Changing Tides Pale 4.50%

BOTTLE POURS
Ripe - Cormelian 2023 Cider 5.00%
Ripe - Pet Nat 2021 Cider 7.00%
Mills Brewing - A range of vintage sours.

30/08/2026

A reminder we are open today, bank holiday Sunday 3pm-8pm.

A few hour changes this coming month:
- Closed Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 September (Sam is off to Leicester v Argyle)
- Thursday 3 and Friday 4 September open as normal 1pm-9pm, later if there's a crowd.
- Closed Saturday 5 September as we head to Alma Yard for our Sato x Vessel Beer Festival 2:30-9:30. Tickets still available, £10 in advance of the event. Available online via Sato or in person at either venue.
- Closed Tuesday 15 September as Sam is heading to Black Flag Brewery to rebrew our first ever birthday beer! It's one of the events to celebrate our tenth year of opening. The beer will be launched with a Black Flag meet the brewer on Thursday 8 October. More details to be annnounced.

The rest of September is standard 1pm-9pm Tuesday to Saturday.

Events already announced for September:
- Cider Launch - Ross Cider Raison D'Etre 2024 Thursday 3 September- the annual launch of Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry Co flagship cider. On keg and bottle alongised a range of different vintages of Raison in bottles, all available from opening at 1pm.
- Portuguese beer tasting - IPA and smoothie sours Ophiussa Brewing Saturday 12 September 7pm. £17.50. The chance to try a hazy IPA and three smoothie sours from Portugal. Message to book a place.
- Vessel Oktoberfest 2026 Back again for the tenth year running. We're still the only place to have all six official Okotberfest beers and align with the official Munich dates of Saturday 19 September to Saturday 3 October. Harman Bagels are making our pretzels again this year as a perfect pairing to the four German festbiers on tap and twenty German festbier bottles in the fridges. Message if you want to book a table.

One more event to announce soon for later in September. A brewery from San Francisco.

26/08/2026

Belgium Beer Week is in full flow.
We've added some more Belgian bottles to the fridges
Cantillon Gueuze and Kriek small bottles. Two Tripels from Rochefort and St Bernardus and two alcohol free Lindeman fruit beers.

Plus a small US delivery, Allagash Hazy IPA, Deschutes Obsidian Stout and a twist on their IPA with an Old Fashioned IPA

A range of Holy Goat, three sours and an imperial stout.

A reminder we're open until 7pm tonight.

25/08/2026

Here's a few more things pouring at our Sato x Vessel Beer Festival

Track Brewing Co. have been a firm favourite in the shop since we opened in 2016. We'll have one of their hazy IPAs Same Stories 6.5% hopped with Citra and Superdelic.

Cornish favourites Ideal Day Family Brewery will also be on tap with a new west coast IPA Precious Time 5.2%

For cider lovers we're staying in Cornwall with Ripe Cider we will have two different ciders from their orchards as bottle pours.

The final teaser for this announcement is some very special vintage bottle pours. We've been cellaring a range of early releases from wild beer producers Mills Brewing. We will have a range of super rare bottles pouring at the festival.

More beer news to come. Grab your tickets in either Sato or Vessel, £10 per person

24/08/2026

Belgium Beer Week is here!
Hundreds of venues around the world are taking part in this annual celebration.
We have two events to celebrate here. From Tuesday we have Belgium Beer Week - Tap Takeover with seven beers on tap. There's a tasting offer to try all seven.

Then on Friday Cantillon Tasting - Classic Belgian Sours 7:30pm to try six Lambic style sours from Cantillon. Tickets are £23 and it's a great way to try these amazing beers and styles without having to buy a whole bottle. Message to book.

Also our hours are a bit different this week.
Tuesday 1pm-6:30pm
Wednesday 1pm-8pm
Thursday to Saturday 1pm-9pm, later if there's a crowd.
Plus a bonus bank holiday Sunday opening 3pm-8pm

21/08/2026

Our first few beer announcements for Sato x Vessel Beer Festival on Saturday 5 September in Alma Yard.

On keg we have:
Azvex from Liverpool are producing some amazing beers. We've chosen Lethal Dose:Vial 001 6.8% Hazy IPA. It's their most hopped IPA they've produced so far with Nelson, Citra and Nectaron.

Holy Goat from Dundee is one of our favourite sour beer producers in the UK. We will be pouring Honeyfang a 8% golden sour that has 200g/l of Scottish Honeyberries added to it. For stout lovers. We will also be pouring their 5.3% vanilla stout Sabra Cadabra VoI 2, a nod to Black Sabbath in the name, similar to that of our hosts name Sato (an Ozzy song reference).

We're also diving into our cellar for some vintage beers on keg. We will be pouring Northern Monk Death single origin Burundi coffee edition 12% imperial stout from 2018. Plus Wild Beer Beyond Modus VI, a 2019 blend of multiple barrel aged beers to make a 8% Flemish red style sour.

More beer news to come. Grab your tickets in either Sato or Vessel, £10 per person

Address

184 Exeter Street
Plymouth
PL40NQ

Opening Hours

Tuesday	1pm - 9pm
Wednesday	1pm - 9pm
Thursday	1pm - 9pm
Friday	1pm - 9pm
Saturday	1pm - 9pm

Telephone

07796667449

Website

http://www.vesselbeer.co.uk/

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