Meer over Craft beers
Which style are you looking for?
By taste direction, as in the Beer School:
- Hoppy & Bitter: IPA, including hazy, West Coast, session, double and triple IPA, and pale ale.
- Dark & Creamy: stout, including imperial, pastry and milk stout, as well as porter, barleywine and brown ale.
- Smooth & Rounded: blond, tripel, dubbel, quadrupel, bock, doppelbock, amber and lager.
- Fresh & Fruity: sour, smoothie sour, witbier, weizen and saison.
- Low Alcohol: alcohol-free and low-alcohol.
Beers aged in barrels are under barrel aged, beers from Trappist abbeys under Trappist. How each style should taste is explained in the Beer School.
What you'll find at Hoptimaal
Breweries with many beers in stock right now: Brasserie du Bas-Canada, Badlands, Messorem, BreWskey, Third Moon and Fine Balance from Canada, Ārpus from Latvia, FrauGruber from Germany, Factory Brewing from Finland and Barreled Souls from the United States. From the Netherlands: Frontaal, Brouwerij Kees, Rock City and VAT'33; the last two are, like us, from Amersfoort.
Choose from beers under €5 or big bottles to share. In the top 10 you can see which beers customers buy most often right now, per style and per country. Prefer a box? Build your own beer box of 6, 12 or 24 beers, or pick a ready-made Discovery Box per taste direction. Not sure which direction to go? Try the Taste Finder.
Storing and serving
Store craft beer cool, dark and upright, so the yeast settles at the bottom. Light causes the skunky smell in beer, and cans let no light through. Drink hoppy beers as fresh as possible; strong beer (generally from 8%), sour beer and smoked beer are, according to CraftBeer.com, well suited to ageing. Don't serve most craft beers ice cold, because cold dampens aroma and flavour. A good starting point is 7–10 °C for pale ale and IPA and 10–13 °C for stout and barleywine. And drink from a glass: much of what you taste is aroma.
Frequently asked questions
When will my order be shipped?
If you order on a working day before 3 pm, we ship your order the same day. We also ship abroad; shipping within the Netherlands is free from €75.
Can I have craft beer delivered to someone else?
Yes. At checkout, enter the recipient's address as the delivery address. Our beers are only for people aged 18 or older, and that applies to the recipient too. You'll find ideas in the gift guide, and with a gift card the recipient chooses for themselves.
Do you have a beer subscription?
Yes, the Beer Club. Every month we fill a box: 8 beers for €39.95 per month plus €5 shipping in the Netherlands, or Premium with about 12 beers. You can also give the Beer Club as a gift for 3, 6 or 12 months (Netherlands only).
Order before 3 pm and we ship the same day. Shipping within the Netherlands is free from €75. Prefer not to order online? Besides the webshop, we have a shop at Leeghwater 5 in Amersfoort (Vathorst).
