9 Fresh New Craft Beers We’ve Loved This Week

Oli Meade

DEYA’s first ever Triple IPA, a show-stopping mild from Boxcar and an Iron Brew sour! Are you as excited as I am?

This week’s list is, once again, off the charts. Here are some of the best new beers to try this week.

Hops

1. DEYA – Routines Bite Hard TIPA

£8.75

Kicking things off, there really is only one place to start. DEYA have released their first ever TIPA!

Routines Bite Hard calls in a truck load of punchy Simcoe and Mosaic to create a 500ml, 10% juice monster from a brewery at the very top of their game. Does it need more hop variety? Absolutely not! It’s everything you’d imagine and then some – the first ever DEYA Triple. For us, a must try.

2. Alpha Delta – Talos TIPA

£7.50

Meanwhile Alpha Delta weren’t about to let DEYA’s TIPA go uncontested. This week, they launched Talos TIPA – so thick, so hoppy… this thing is like a soup. A DEYA beater? You’ll have to decide that one yourself…

3. Overtone – Plur DIPA

£5.75

Overtone’s Plur DIPA set social alight this week with a gaggle of excited beer fans singing its praises – and rightly so. I’ve been banging on about Overtone’s genius for months, and it seems like people are finally starting to catch on! This 5-hop monster (Galaxy, Citra, Azacca, Simcoe, Chinook) is a cascading waterfall of tropical fruit gold – epic stuff, get involved!

Darks

4. Boxcar – Double Dark Mild

£5.50

Set the stouts aside for a second: Boxcar’s Double Dark Mild tops our list of the best new dark beers this week! As if the original wasn’t good enough, this is an amped up, tricked out, double-dosage version. More malt! More chocolate! More raisin! And oh-so smooth.

5, 6 & 7. Three Hills – Marshmallow Smor, Cherry Bakewell & Pomerol B.P.A.V.Ks

£7.95

At spots 4, 5 and 6 this week you’ve got three new releases from the B.P.A.V.K series that are as un-ignorable as ever. Which is better?! Three Hills Marshmallow Smor Imperial Stout? Or the Cherry Bakewell Imperial Pastry Version?!?

It’s such a close call but, for experimental outrage I’m gonna go with the Marshmallow Smor. Oh, and there’s a suave and sophisticated red wine version too!

Sours

8. Vault City Brewing – Iron Brew Sour

£7.50

Just when you’re wondering what Vault City have been up to of late, they go ahead and lob an Iron Brew Sour at your face! How is this possible?! What the hell is even in Irn Bru in the first place??! In this boozy version you’ve got a bubblegum-citrus sour that pours as orange as the original. It’s equally mysterious. And equally magnificent.

9. Vault City Brewing – Iron Brew Sour

£6.95

Finally this week is Left Handed Giant’s Blender Fruited Sour IPA Mark 3… a sour that apparently gets better with every iteration! In this one you’ve got Raspberry, Papaya and Vanilla intermingling with fruity and piercing Nelson Sauvin hops, all combining for a sexy sweet treat with serious fruited zing.

Still want more?!

Fair enough. Well, elsewhere this week, you’ll find two new Polly’s hop-bombs on our virtual shelves, starting with a new issue of Polly’s Uncanny Valley IPA. This is, naturally, packed full of all the pineapple, mango, and papaya notes you know and love. Polly’s Magnolia Pale Ale is a more experimental mix of coconut, lime, ripe tangerine and 20kg of Citra hop dose. Both are as thick as ever.

Ārpus Brewing’s Secret Hops IPA is a fun IPA all the way from Latvia. Any idea what they’ve used to hop this? Test your inner nerd. See if you can work it out.

Talking of nerds, check out the epic new wax top range from Nerdbrewing themselves! There are six insane Nerdbrewing darks now online, and I’m torn between Nerdbrewing’s Typecast Imperial Licorice Lemon & Vanilla Stout and Infix Vanilla Macchiato Edition. They come at a fair old price point – but, luckily, you really can’t go wrong.

Talus hops are hops of the moment, and Signature showed us why with their new Nocturne Black IPA this week. A freaky, unintentional 6.66% ABV bundle of gnarled tropical fruit. See what Talus is all about.

There’s also a big Anspach & Hobday drop going on (Ordinary Bitter is a personal favourite), Alpha Delta’s Corymbus Blackcurrant & Blackberry Imperial Sour Ale is a 10% treat and Little Monster are back with their much acclaimed Squash Court DIPA and some epic can art on Back Home IPA – liven up your fridge!

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

Cheers & happy drinking!

Oli
(The founder)