Top Picks: Our Best Craft Beers
A diverse and seasonal selection of the best craft beers and breweries handpicked by our experts for your drinking pleasure. Top IPAs and stouts, classic and experimental styles, UK and beyond, discover HonestBrew’s essential picks.
Top Picks: Our Best Craft Beers
A diverse and seasonal selection of the best craft beers and breweries handpicked by our experts for your drinking pleasure. Top IPAs and stouts, classic and experimental styles, UK and beyond, discover HonestBrew’s essential picks.
Top Craft Brewery Picks
We’ve filled our online beer bottleshop with a selection of the world’s best breweries. Here are just four of our current favourites. Discover their latest beers and adventure across the craft beer landscape!
The Kernel Brewery
The Kernel are one of the best kept secrets of British craft beer, revered amongst beer lovers and craft connoisseurs around the world. One of several breweries located upon the Bermondsey Beer Mile, their ever-evolving range of pale ales, stouts, saisons and sour beers never fail to disappoint, but rarely make it out of London. Discover these hidden gems wherever you are in the UK.
Cloudwater
Manchester’s Cloudwater have quickly become one of the most celebrated modern craft breweries to emerge in recent years. Focusing on seasonality and freshness, the brewery’s mythical New England-inspired Double IPA (DIPA) ‘V’ series cemented their status as one of British beer’s most exciting new prospects. An array of complex styles, striking artwork and hotly-anticipated collaborations define their releases.
Burning Sky
Sussex’s Burning Sky are renowned for their contemporary approach to traditional farmhouse brewing. Their love of hop-forward pales and beautifully balanced Belgian beer styles (such as saisons, sours and lambic) has resulted in a unique seasonal range that is constantly being refined. The only question is… how much better can their delicious British beer get?
North End
North End Brewing are based on New Zealand’s Kapiti Coast. Established by a brewer, a waiter and a chef, they craft beers that belong equally at the bar and upon the dinner table. Classic British, Belgian and German beer styles are a clear influence resulting in a range that is rich, complex, a little wild and perfect to pair with a variety of dishes.
Wild Beer Co
Drawing inspiration from the surrounding Somerset landscape, Wild Beer Co. incorporate wild yeasts, foraged ingredients and a hefty does of brewing ingenuity into their beer. Challenging, complex and consistently ranking amongst out top British breweries, it’s time you discovered their bountiful range of bottled and canned delights.
Best Craft Brewery Picks
These are four of the best breweries we’re loving right now. Check out their latest beers and discover something new about a region close to you or further afield!

The Kernel Brewery
London
The first presence on the famous Bermondsey Beer Mile, The Kernel are the understated force in London Craft Beer. Churning out an ever-evolving range of incredibly well-regarded beers, The Kernel holds fast as one of the absolute gems in the crown of British craft beer.

Cloudwater
Manchester
The rise, rise and continual rise of Manchester’s Cloudwater has been something to behold. Since launching and bringing their Double IPA (DIPA) ‘V’ series at the tail-end of 2015, we’d argue that they’ve had a big hand in cementing the place of British beer at the pointy end of the international beer scene. Be quick though, their beers hang around for a few weeks at the most!

Burning Sky
West Sussex
Not ones for the bandwagon, Burning Sky know exactly what they’re good at, and they do it damn well. Saison, sour and farmhouse beers are their forte, complemented with thoughtfully created pale ales & IPAs. Barrels, barns and wild yeast all play into their creative and beautifully executed beers.

North End
New Zealand
North End, based on New Zealand’s Kapiti Coast, was formed by a brewer, a waiter and a chef. So it’s no surprise they make incredible food-friendly beer. This means you’ll find a large number of unusual or rarer styles in their arsenal, but they’re all filled with beautiful complex flavours that are perfect pairings for a wide variety of food.

Wild Beer Co
Somerset
A Wild Beer Co does what it says on the bottle. Wild yeasts, foraged ingredients, spontaneous fermentation are all on the menu at Wild Beer Co. At HonestBrew HQ we have so many Wild Beer Co favourite’s it’s almost unfair to name them all, but try some and discover for yourself why they’re secretly one of the best breweries in Britain.