• Hop Pickers’ Harvest (4% ABV) is Anspach & Hobday’s first green hop beer. It is brewed exclusively with freshly-picked Ernest hops, grown at Hukins hop farm in Tenterden, Kent. There are intense, bright, tropical and citrus fruit aromas jumping out of the glass, along with subtle notes of anise and a unique, fresh floral character. Balanced well, with good bitterness.

• Clapton Craft have collaborated with Pretty Decent on Let The Bears Pay The BearTax, a 6.5% ABV NEIPA. There’s Nelson Sauvin in the whirlpool for notes gooseberry and vinous passion fruit alongside Motueka for lemon-lime goodness and oily dankness. Riwaka Hopkief, a concentrated liquid, was then introduced, bringing out funky citrus, papaya, and gummy candy, and there’s a final dry hop of more Motueka, Nelson, plus Simcoe for piney depth.

• Named after a bar dog in Antwerp, Billie’s IPA (5.5% ABV) is new from Newbarns. The French bulldog’s legacy live on through Billie’s Beer Festival, held every November at Billie’s Bier Kafetaria. The IPA is brewed with East Lothian malt and packed full of Strata hops. 

• Hops gathered from the walled garden at Harewood House, West Yorkshire, go into Northern Monk’s Green Hop Pale Ale (5.3% ABV). “By using hops straight off the bine, the beer has a vibrancy and brightness that’s hard to replicate in beers made with preserved hops,” says the brewer. “These English hop varieties have an earthy florality to them, not often found in our beers but always a welcome appearance.”

• Time To Turn is a new 5% ABV pale ale from Eight Arch. It’s full to the brim with Nelson Sauvin, from New Zealand, and Idaho 7, from the USA, giving “tropical vibes for days”.

• Gipsy Hill, part of Sunrise Alliance Beverages, is to move the majority of its brewing operation to Curious Brewery in Kent, part of the same group, due to landlord problems in London. However, some Gipsy Hill beers, in the form of specials and research and development work, will continue to be made in the capital.