8 Fresh New Craft Beers To Try This Week

Although you might expect the recent turn of seasons to come laden with sours, really, this week, it was hoppy beers that stole the show. Check it out… These are the best new beers to try this week.

1. Overtone / Other Half – Lost In The Thick Of It TDH DIPALime, Cake Batter J.R.E.A.M. Sour

Hop City is back! The UK’s best hop-forward festival has its own brews and they are nearly as ace as the fest itself!

Overtone have teamed up with Other Half in the US (!!!) to bring a DIPA called Lost in the Thick of it made with Yakima Chief hops.

Talk about a dream link up of breweries and ingredients. It’s off the chart and limited as heck so don’t snooze!

2. Azvex – Tamagotchi Graveyard DIPA

I love Azvex. From dank and resinous West Coasts like Gravity Chasm with oodles of simcoe to session strength bestselling pales like Electronic Butterfly they are fab.

My jam is up at the IPA level and I loved Shipwrecked Bones crammed with juicy Mosaic, Citra and Amarillo and Tamagotchi Graveyard DIPA with Strata leading the way. Both incredibly light and zippy for their ABVs and a joy to drink.

3. Mash Gang / Tripping Animals – Stank Dank (Low/No Alcohol)

The other Hop City beer I have for you this week is Stank Dank. Mash Gang lead the way on this 0.5% beer.

It says it tries to bring you the soup of a DIPA in a “no-low” brew and, you know what, it’s not far off nailing it.

Perfect when you’re in for a beer but off the booze.

4. Bang The Elephant / gwei-lo – Da Loong Mandarin, ginger, sesame, chocolate & Hong Kong honey Imperial Stout

Bang the Elephant are back and how!

We’re not messing about here with Da Loong and The Monks of Lawrenceburg.

The Da Loong is a crazy concoction of mandarin, ginger, sesame, chocolate and Hong Kong honey… all wrapped up in an imperial stout wrapper. WOW, what a brew! 

The Monks is a BA Belgian Quad and is up there with their last brew like this, Whack!, which was insane.

These guys nail big beers.

5. Track – Language Barrier Imperial Coconut Stout

Track are also in the mix with a return of Language Barrier which takes 12.5% ABV and adds loads of coconut and chocolate to it! 

6. Track – Each Coming Night Coffee, Chocolate & Vanilla Stout

If 12.5% is too much, worry not! Each Coming Night is Track’s session version at just… wait for it… 7.8%. Haha!

This one has added vanilla for a touch more sweetness and smoothness too.

7. Vault City Brewing – Raspberry Rocky Road

Vault sours NEVER fail and always hit their flavour profile…

Raspberry Rocky Road is just this – it’s tart yet sweet and it’s a really well balanced brew.

8. Vault City / Low Key – Tonka White Forest Gateau

I personally love this collab. Tonka White Forest Gateau is like a beautiful cake with the kick of the tonka bean in there.

Shouldn’t work but it’s Vault City so of course it does!

Enjoy hunting and thanks as ever for your legendary support and custom.

Cheers!

Oli, Charlie & Agnes
(The people behind Craft Metropolis)