Does anyone use Eebria?

Just curious. I check their website about once a month but as you can only get bottles from one brewery (and this is there whole ethos - fresh and direct from the brewer) it doesn’t really pan out. There is never enough variety for me. I don’t want 3 bottles of everything just to make up a box. Also you don’t always get specifics. Partizan are just listed as Pale Ale or IPA for instance.

But that’s me - wondering if other people make use of them?

Just the once, when they first started sending Old Chimneys stuff. Aside from the three Good King Henry Special Reserve bottles I bought I had another 9 beers which I hadn’t had before. That was an exception though and I don’t use them for the same reasons - I don’t want multiple bottles of a beer I’ve not tried and I don’t want to make up a box with stuff I have had when I’d rather find something new.

Used them a few times now - very, very impressed. Had a couple of boxes of Siren gear, Kernel stuff, and, as Niall above, I also got a nice box of GKH. Always very quick delivery and the Siren/Kernel bottles were super fresh. Would love them to do pick-and-mix cases spanning a few different breweries, but have never been disappointed with the service I’ve received.

As above, for the Old Chimneys box. Speedy delivery. No problems. I’ll use them again, probably. I quite like having beer in the house that I’ve rated already. No thinking required!

Same... Once only for good king Henry.
As per kenny - partizan just listed as pale. Most other sites manage to list the hop varieties ok!!
Also... GKH release. I ordered 12 bottles then 30 minutes later i got an email saying - no !!! 6 bottle limit and i received a refund. A touch amateurish i thought.

Thanks for your comments – it is really useful for us to get feedback like this! It’s great reading the compliments on speed and freshness of the beers as this is key to what we want to achieve.

With our marketplace model, the drinks that are listed (and info and prices) are decided by the brewers themselves. Andy at Partizan decided at the start of the year that it was easier for him to maintain a generic listing for the IPA, Pale and Saison, than to keep updating it with each batch. Given your feedback, we spoke to him today and have come up with a way that we can maintain the up to date list in as hassle free a way as possible for him – as a result you will see that we now have the IPA, Pale and Saison varieties all listed and this will be updated each week with the new beers.

The Old Chimneys Good King Henry Special Reserve is one of two beers that we have ever had sales restrictions on (the other was Siren Even More Jesus VIII) – these restrictions are always added at the request of the brewers. With the GKHSR, the listing description did mention the restriction, as did our marketing (where possible), but as it is rare that we have these restrictions the policing of it has to be manual by us emailing customers (we can’t prevent more than 6 bottles being added). We know that this isn’t a perfect solution (the messages can be easily missed), but for a small company the cost of setting up a fully automated solution for very rare cases is very high. For your reference we will be launching the 2012 vintage of the GKHSR this year, and it should go on sale in October.

With mixed cases, because of the shipping from the brewery, this is hard for us to offer a pick and mix service. However we have launched our Discovery Club, which has 12 beers each from a different brewery, each month and tends to include a lot of one-offs / specials (all sent to us from the brewery shortly beforehand, so still extremely fresh).

If you have any more feedback, please do let us know – either on this thread, or by email to feedback@eebria.com.

Also if you have any recommendations of great UK breweries that we don’t sell and you think we might have missed / you would like to be able to access easier, please let us know and we’ll do our best to get them onto the site!

I did a Buxton order as they had quite a wide variety of new beers on the go as well as some old favourites. Worked perfectly from start to finish.

Originally posted by eebria
With our marketplace model, the drinks that are listed (and info and prices) are decided by the brewers themselves.

Originally posted by chriso

Still, it would be nice if there was some way to pick up all the new bottled beers from Kernel, Partizan etc etc without hauling round Bermondsey, or wherever, each & every Saturday and then having to sniff them out from shops with no up to date stock lists all over London if you miss a Saturday. Which is inevtable because nobody is going to be able to (or want to) do a brewery run every week.

We are looking into setting up brewery hubs, for situations like Bermondsey where there are a lot of breweries in close proximity. We don’t have a date yet for when this will be live, but hopefully it will be in the not too distant future.

I can understand that the Discovery Club (and general marketplace concept) won’t necessarily appeal to big Ratebeer raters due to the unknown aspect. We do our best to ensure the Discovery Club beer lists have a good range of styles and breweries and include the latest specials from EeBria breweries.

For example our last box contained the following recent specials: Pressure Drop Nanban Kanpai, Siren Biere de Gouttiere, Celt Experience 614 Annees (Shapeshifter Series), Partizan Iced Tea Saison, By The Horns Samba King, Buxton Far Skyline and Bad Seed Lemongrass and Thyme Saison. If you are tempted to try the next one out, I can give you £10 off the first box with code RatebeerTEN, which will hopefully make it worth a try?

Good form, Eebria. Always nice to see a business getting involved on the RateBeer Forum.

I too have had a good experience with Eebria, though I (like so many other degenerate raters) will likely only use the service from time to time.

If I were a more ’normal’ beer drinker, I would probably use Eebria more than other online shops because it seems to have an edge when it comes to freshness.