With the number of deliveries direct from the microbrewery across home city Edinburgh hitting 200, Barney’s Beer is now rolling out direct postal deliveries across the UK.
The company see this as an opportunity to meet new drinkers: those who had a beer festival trip planned; those unable to get out to the supermarket during lockdown to try new beers; and those who are able to continue supporting small business.
Barney’s Beer was founded in 2010 and its products are now sold in more than 70 pubs, bars, and shops throughout Scotland. This is the first time its range — including Marshmallow Stout, Volcano IPA, and Stone’s Throw Lager — will be available across the UK.
Orders can be placed now through the website. There is free delivery for orders over £50, £5 standard for smaller orders. Beer starts at £2 a bottle.
Andrew ‘Barney’ Barnett (pictured) said: “It’s usually this time of year I think to myself ‘how am I going to brew enough for the festivals?’ so it’s quite a change, and most importantly a way to ensure we still get that beer out to drinkers. My Dad worked for Davenports in the 70s, whose slogan was ‘beer at home means Davenports’, so there’s a symmetry in these strange times.”
One of the beers has previously only left the brewery to travel as far as Summerhall’s on-site pub, the Royal Dick. Stone’s Throw Lager, so called due to the closeness of the pub, will be travelling across the UK, and Barney’s is inviting customers to tweet how far Stone’s Throw has been flung using #stonesthrow.
