With the pubs and bars in Manchester now shut for the time being, many bars, bottle shops and breweries are now selling beer online.
Here’s a guide to where you can buy beer for delivery in Manchester while the pubs are closed, and some venues offering the chance to pre-pay for your drinks for when they can reopen.
Updated 30/06/2020
City centre
Alphabet Brewery
Offering delivery, £30 minimum spend for free local delivery. Details.
Beatnikz Republic
Delivery available via their online shop. Also running a Crowdfunder to pre-pay for drinks in their bar.
Beermoth
Orders only available from online shop. Delivery Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 12-8pm, £20 minimum spend for free local delivery.
Beer Nouveau
Selling beer for takeaway (including Runaway 5L kegs), Fridays and Saturdays 1-5pm. Details.
Blackjack
Offering delivery within seven miles of Manchester via their online shop.
Brewdog Manchester
Offering delivery via their app. Details.
Bundobust
Offering UK delivery via their new online shop.
Cloudwater Unit 9
Delivery available from Cloudwater’s online shop – with beer on sale from other local breweries including Pomona Island, Squawk, Track, Runaway, Wander Beyond and Mobberley, as well as options from mainland Europe and North America.
They’re offering local delivery to various Manchester postcodes on Thursday-Sunday (info here) and shipping for orders outside those areas.
Crown and Kettle
Offering beer for collection (keg and cask growler fills) at weekends. See Facebook each week for timings.
Grub
Offering delivery and collection for pre-orders on Saturdays and Sundays. Details.
Manchester Union
Offering growler delivery to M postcodes on Fridays. Details. They’re also running a Crowdfunder to pay it forward for cans.
The Marble Arch
Delivery available from Marble’s online shop.
Northern Monk Refectory Manchester
Delivery available from Northern Monk’s online shop.
The Pilcrow
Closed but you can pre-pay for future beer via their Crowdfunder.
Port Street Beer House
Offering beer for collection on Wednesdays-Saturdays between 4pm-7pm on orders pre-ordered via their online shop. Delivery available on Fridays to most M postcodes and SK4.
You can pre-pay for future beer via their Crowdfunder.
Runaway Brewery
Offering mini-kegs for collection by prior arrangement Tuesday-Thursday 10am-4pm. Details. Also selling bottles and mini-kegs via Cloudwater’s webshop and mini-kegs via Beer Nouveau at weekends.
Track Brewery
Delivery available from Track’s online shop.
Wander Beyond
Delivery available via Wander Beyond’s online shop.
Suburbs
The Assembly, Urmston
Offering growler delivery and collection service. Details.
You can pre-pay for future beer via their Crowdfunder.
Artisan Ales, Sale
Offering free local delivery. Details.
The Beer House, Chorlton
Offering delivery within three miles, including 2 pint cask cartons.Details.
Brightside Brewery, Radcliffe.
Offering delivery across Greater Manchester via their webshop. Details.
Carringtons, Chorlton
Offering delivery to Chorlton and Didsbury. Details.
Craft Brewtique, Urmston
Offering free local delivery. Details.
The Epicurean, Didsbury
Offering free local delivery for orders over £40, and shipping further afield via their online shop.
Heaton Hops, Heaton Chapel
Offering free local delivery within three miles. Details.
House of Hops, Swinton
Offering local delivery via their online shop.
Keg, Cask and Bottle, Prestwich
Offering free delivery to M25, M26 and M45 on orders over £20 via their webshop.
Now open for click and collect and takeaway sales Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-6pm and Sundays 12-5pm.
Nordie, Levenshulme
Offering click and collect service on Wednesdays and Fridays. Details.
Northern Type, Eccles
Open for takeaway sales Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-4pm. Free home delivery in Eccles for orders over £25.
Pomona Island
Delivery available via their online shop.
Prairie Schooner, Urmston
Offering local delivery. Details.
Reasons to be Cheerful
Open for takeaway from 9 July. Details.
The Secret Sip, Royton
Offering free delivery within five miles via their online shop.
Shindigger Brewery, Salford
Delivery available within the M60 via their online shop.
Station Hop, Levenshulme
Open for takeaway beers and growler fills only. Details.
Stubborn Mule Brewery, Altrincham
Offering free delivery within three miles of the brewery via their online shop.
Thirst Class, Reddish
Offering free delivery within 10 miles of the brewery. Details.
Tiny’s Tipple, Chorlton
Offering pick up service for pre-orders. Details.
Further afield
Blackedge Brewery, Horwich
Offering delivery of 10L bag in box beers within five miles of the brewery via their online shop.
Cheshire Brewhouse, Congleton
Offering free delivery within 10 miles of the brewery plus nationwide delivery via their online shop.
Donkeystone Brewery, Greenfield, Saddleworth
Offering delivery and collection from drive thru collection point at brewery via their online shop.
Escape Brewery, Bolton
Offering beer in a box deliveries to Horwich, Blackrod, Adlington and Chorley. Details.
Irwell Works, Ramsbottom
Offering free delivery within five miles of the brewery. Details.
Mobberley Brewhouse, Cheshire
Offering free delivery of orders over £25 within 10 miles via their online shop.
Prospect Brewery, Wigan
Offering delivery within five miles of Wigan. Details.
Red Willow, Macclesfield
Offering same day local delivery and next day nationwide delivery via their online shop.
Rivington Brewery, Rivington, Lancashire
Offering delivery to Bolton, Chorley, Preston, Wigan, Leigh, Blackburn and Darwen via their online shop.
Stubborn Mule, Altrincham
Offering free delivery within three miles via their online shop.
For even further afield, see this list from Craft Beer Hour and this map from Art By Volume.
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