7 Fresh New Craft Beers To Try This Week

Oli Meade

The big news this week is Zagavor are in!

Zaravor brews are rare around these parts and are much sought after, so this week we discuss one of their big hop belters, plus a Zagavor pastry sour that’s right up there with the best.

Before all that though, I want to recommend you try something a bit different…

1. Augustiner – Edelstoff

Our huge new range of German and Czech beers are authentic, well-priced, soaring in popularity… and we have 33 new different types just in to choose from!

You might already have your eye on one or two these surging sorts but, if not, Augustiner is a good starting point – Edelstoff is a treat for everyone who appreciates good beer.

Clean, crisp and with subtle carbonation, it’s lovely and refreshing… but then herbal, earthy notes and sweet malts ensure this is packed full of flavour. Great stuff.

2. Zagovor – Overhype: Proper Hops DIPA

Over in hop town, the BIG news this week is Zagovor are in!!

This is one of the best craft outlets – if not THE best – in Russia!

Their mega beers are hard to get hold of, and they’re the stuff of legend in beer circles.

Among the four (yeah, FOUR!) NEIPAs we’ve snagged for your drinking pleasure is Zagovor’s Overhype. This is (ready?) a Triple Dry Hopped New England Double IPA… which is quite possibly the hoppiest beer ever made in Russia!

(And by the way… Zagovor’s Super tropical Prozess NEIPA is also exactly what I’m looking or in a NEIPA dialled up to eleven. Immense!) 

3. DEYA/Burning Sky – Man Is The Most Secret Animal On Earth

Meanwhile DEYA’s latest drop is also laden with hoppy magnificence that’s impossible to resist. 

DEYA’s Man Is The Most Secret Animal On Earth Pale looks a bit like Steady Rolling Man and that isn’t a coincidence, because this cask style tropical can of deliciousness is cut from the same cloth… which I think is all anyone needs to say. 

Get one in – quick!

4. Maltgarden – Where Do We Begin Pale

There’s also new Whiplash which I’ve been loving this week, but I can’t not mention the new hop haul from Maltgarden, which continues to get beer fans drooling.

Just like DEYA, Maltgarden have gone all-out tropical fruit juice in the new Maltgarden Where Do We Begin Pale.

Is there too much of a tropical focus out there at the moment? Absolutely not – this is effin beautiful.

5. Zagovor – Chillwave In A Big City Sour

Zagovor is now in… I get happier every time I say it!

Especially as their sours reach the same quality heights as their NEIPAs.

Filled with mango, guava, strawberry, passion fruit puree and lactose, Zagovor’s Jungle In A Big City Sour proves as much.

But for me, Zagovor’s Chillwave In A Big City Sour is an even better beer – mainly because, as well as mango, passionfruit, guava, pineapple and lactose, this has coconut and marshmallows going on for a bit of sweetness!

6. Vault City Brewing – Dragonfruit Kiwi Strawberry Lychee

What next? Brew York? Amundsen? Beak? Neon Raptor?

Sour fans are spoilt for choice this week, but it’s still impossible not to look into Vault City’s Dragonfruit Kiwi Strawberry Lychee Sour – yet another immense fruit smoothie sour from the masters that are Vault!

7. Maltgarden – Window Blinds Down Imperial Stout

Maltgarden’s hop drops may be mega, but their darks are where it all began!

Window Blinds Down Chocolate and Coconut Imperial Stout oozes chocolate – piles of infused cacao nibs and cocoa make sure of that. Then Maltgarden throw untoasted coconut into the mix for another level of flavour. Sweet and desserty, it’s a wicked brew.

Plus…

Everyone loves S43, and Hazy River NEIPA is hop-laden dankalicious. 

S34’s Our Lawyers Made Us Change the Name of This Beer So We Don’t Get Sued is even more fun, and as a black IPA, is hoppy with roasty malts.

Almasty’s Elderflower Saison is definitely a top drop for a sunny bank holiday weekend, as is Yonder’s Raspberry Gose.

Brick’s core range is back in too! Peckham Pale is as popular as ever, and the session IPA is a great shout for daytime drinks.

There’s a few lines new in from Anspach & Hobday too – including The Summertime Lager plus Table Beer and a restock of The Pale Ale.

When you’re rummaging through the more than 750 beers now available, don’t forget to dive into the Neon Raptor section – new Fort Lauderdale Sour IPA is a beauty.

As always, I hope you get to try some of these ace new beers this week.

Cheers!

Oli
(The founder)