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As we head into autumn and the nights draw in, and sours dial down before darks amp up, what are we supposed to be drinking?

Oh yeah – big, fat, juicy, hop monsters from both our shores and overseas!

The hops dominate once again this week… and here are the very best for your drinking pleasure.

Another Verdant juice bomb, a honeycomb milkshake pale ale & a smokey Oktoberfest Rauchbier for less than £4!

What a week it’s been for new beer releases!

It’s been relatively quiet in terms of quantity on the new beers front this week.

But the quality?

Well, I’m about to bang on about Northern Monk’s new juice-fest, Beak’s first EVER sour and an XPA from Polly’s that’ll make you fall in love with the style.

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 belter, plus a Zagavor pastry sour.

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

Loch Lomond’s 10th birthday collabs!

Garage’s new fruit salad TIPA!

And an Imperial Nitro Coffee Milk Stout from Colorado!

The list just keeps getting better and better!

This week saw the usual epic juicy releases from DEYA, Polly’s, Verdant & the like. So this list is going to be filled with all of them, right?!
Not so!
In actual fact, this week’s best new beers came from far more unexpected places.

This week saw the usual epic juicy releases from DEYA, Polly’s, Verdant & the like. So this list is going to be filled with all of them, right?!
Not so!
In actual fact, this week’s best new beers came from far more unexpected places.

This week, I’m taking a look at a big new Triple IPA from Wisconsin’s The Brewing Projekt, one of the best pilsners I’ve ever, ever had and Beak’s new “near perfect” West Coast IPA. Ready?

As cultural analysts delight in telling us, coronavirus has changed our lives in unexpected ways. Few echelons of society remain untouched. So preposterous as it seems, it’s perhaps worth asking: Has the pandemic changed our taste in beer? Empirically, the question is almost impossible to answer. Anecdotally though, from where I’m sitting in my little […]