Excellent pairing: wealthy cured meats and pies. Nice with daring cheese like an honest blue.
Vault Metropolis Strawberry Sundae, £3.50/440ml, vaultcity.co.uk
A easy and full-bodied strawberry bitter made with Scottish strawberries.
Excellent pairing: mac ’n’ cheese topped with pulled pork for a distinction or to enrich a dessert like eton mess.
Lacada Blue Pool, £18/4 x 440ml cans, store.lacadabrewery.com
All the best way from Northern Eire, this New England IPA is hazy, golden and comfortable, hopped extensively with Galaxy, Citra and Mosaic. Filled with tropical fruit and citrus aroma and flavour.
Excellent pairing: samosas; jerk rooster; a spicy bean burger or a beef burger with a crispy, sharp dressed salad.
Tartarus Erebus Raspberry Chocolate Cake stout, £7.50/330ml, tartarusbeers.co.uk
A wealthy, thick indulgent 14.5% ABV stout brewed with 9 completely different malts together with speciality varieties to provide flavours of darkish chocolate and roast espresso. Raspberries have been additionally added to provide a tart, fruity kick to stability out the sweetness from the additional additions of cocoa nibs and vanilla.
Excellent pairing: Christmas cake, mince pies and tiramisu.
Holy Goat x Fierce Terrorizer, £6.90/375ml, holygoat.beer
Made in Dundee, this advanced barrel-aged blackcurrant bitter is comprised of a mix of fifty% golden bitter beer aged in tank for six months, brewed at Holy Goat, together with 50% rye bitter aged in barrels for greater than two years at Fierce Beer.
Excellent pairing: steak, sport, brie and chocolate.
The Kernel London 1890 Export stout, £3/330ml, retailer.thekernelbrewery.com
Primarily based on a 132-year-old recipe from The Truman Brewery, that is sturdy and roasty with wealthy malty sweetness and a balanced bitterness.
Excellent pairing: fatty and/or robust cheeses particularly stilton or pitchfork cheddar. Spicy meals like a curry or some jerk rooster.
Wilderness Courageous Faces, £15.50/75cl, wildernessbrew.co.uk
Courageous Faces is a 6.7% pale combined fermentation beer, which has been aged and soured in Bordeaux barrels for 18 months. It has an orange peel aroma, flavours of peaches and nectarines, and a dry, funky end.
Excellent pairing: sausage and bean casserole or a pepperoni pizza.
New Bristol Brewery Irish Espresso & Vanilla Ice Cream Affogato stout, £4/440ml, newbristolbrewery.myshopify.com
Swap dessert for this scrumptious stout – decadent with notes of vanilla, espresso and Baileys.
Excellent pairing: pour over a bowl of vanilla ice cream.
Verdant Individuals Cash House Time, £21/6 x 440ml cans, verdantbrewing.co
A sub-4% ABV comfortable and chuggable pale ale that has oodles of Citra and Mosaic hops seeping from all instructions. It drinks method above its meagre ABV and is crammed stuffed with tropical indulgences and citric sharpness.
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