Wishing you could be experiencing new and exciting beers out at the pub with your friends? Well we can still make it happen! Host your own stay at home Virtual Beer Tasting event with the help of Beer Merchants… It’s easy to arrange and get going. So what are you waiting for? Step 1 Load your chosen beers into your cart. Find something you’ve always wanted your pals to try, or even something none of you have had the opportunity to taste yet. The choice is yours and the stock at Beer Merchants awaits. There’s no limit to what you can choose, if it’s in stock you’ve got it. Step 2 Share the spe ..read more

We love the idea of a discovery club, but far too many of these are packed with short-dated beers bought to a maximum price per unit to keep costs down and are practically impossible to cancel. All that makes us more than a little sad as thats just not how beer should be enjoyed, so we decided to shake things up a bit! We have two options available to cater to all levels of geekery: BEER MERCHANTS FRESH CLUB 8 incredible fresh beers delivered monthly for just £25! Each month, you will receive 8 beers that have been freshly delivered into our warehouse. These are the beers we are currently dri ..read more

Guten Morgan beer lovers! It's no secret that we are big German beer fans here at Beer Merchants towers. As such, we always look forward to this time of year as the Oktoberfest beers arrive and it's time to party Bavarian style! This year we have decided to put together some incredible deals to help toast the season; from Oktoberfest beer packs to mini kegs via a special litre can & stein deal, theres something for everyone. Kicking off with a stone-cold classic, we have bottles of Paulaner Oktoberfest back in stock. One of the original Oktoberfest beers and also one of the most loved. Pa ..read more

We are delighted to have partnered with The Skyline Project this year. A collaborative release bringing together the finest independent craft breweries from two of the world’s great beer cities - London & New York, and encouraging a cultural exchange between them. London and New York are connected by their world-famous, instantly recognisable skylines, yet each city is home to a very different approach to craft beer culture. Craft beer in America is more established and New York breweries specialise in big, bold and boozy examples. Styles traditionally associated with the UK are more ..read more

At Beer Merchants, we pride ourselves with offering the very best produce we can do to our customers and we only ever affiliate ourselves with likeminded people with similarly high standards. When we met Scott from The Luxury Meat Box Company we knew he was a kindred spirit with as high standards for his produce as we have. So it was an easy decision on both parts to come up with a combo offer for our incredible customers to really kick off your Summer in style. We have set up our Ultimate BBQ Beer Case, featuring 10 incredible British craft beers to drink and an 11th to use as part of the be ..read more

When our parent company Cave Direct was founded in 1979, some of the very first beers bought in by Brian Gilhepsy for the shop were made by the Huyghe Brewery. Now 40 years on, Brian's children Louise & Colin run Cave Direct, and Delirium is still one of the flagship products. In 1906, Leon Huyghe purchased a brewery in the beautiful town of Melle in East Flanders (although there had been a brewery on the site since 1654) and quickly began producing beers that gained a popular local following. Things were halted during the First World War however when copper was in huge demand and many bre ..read more

When we first announced the plans for the Beer Merchants Tap in 2017, we dropped the first hints at the barrel-ageing and blending project that would become Good Company Blendery and we have been inundated with questions ever since. With the Tap opening in early 2018 and the space allocated, we were able to cement the plans and start formulating with some of our incredible friends from across the UK.With the 2018/19 coolship season in full swing, we were lucky enough to get some wort delivered from Wild Beer Co, Burning Sky and Harbour direct to Hackney Wick ready to go into barrels and do the ..read more

On Friday 14th & Saturday 15th June, hundreds of awesome beer geeks and party goers descended on The Beer Merchants Tap, our bar, bottleshop & blendery in Hackney Wick. The weekend's festivities were to celebrate 40 years of our parent company - Cave Direct, the UK's leading independent beer importer/distributor and saw some of the finest brewers and breweries from around the world coming together to help us throw the best beery party of the summer! With tutored talks held throughout the weekend by Jean Van Roy of Cantillon, Mark Tranter of Burning Sky, Mike Murphy of Lervig and many m ..read more

On Friday 14th & Saturday 15th June we are throwing a beery Birthday bonanza for our parent company Cave Direct who are turning 40! If you haven't got a ticket yet, you can grab one HERE.Hosted at The Beer Merchants Tap in Hackney Wick, we will have a ton of incredible breweries in attendance such as Cantillon, Lervig, Omnipollo, Burning Sky, Mahrs Brau and many more! But all that great beer needs equally great food to go with it, so we have drafted in some of our favourite street food traders from our food pop-ups to really round everything off.Whilst there are a plethora of excellent bee ..read more

Copenhagen is undoubtedly one of the worlds great beer cities, mainly thanks to the hard work or Mikkel Borg Bjergso, better known as the man behind Mikkeller.On top of their host of great bars, restaurants, bottle shops and brewpubs in the city, Mikkeller also host the annual Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen. This festival brings together hundreds of the worlds best breweries under one roof to showcase their wares. It's a festival we try to hit every year to hang out with many of our friends and of course to make some new ones!Here are our TOP 10 picks from this years festival: OMNIPOLLO ..read more