• What Seems To Be Your Boggle? Is a new 10% ABV imperial chocolate, cinnamon, and vanilla stout from Pomona Island. Also new from the brewer are Tower of Spite, a 6.2% ABV DDH IPA, hopped with Cryo Simcoe, Cryo Citra, Cryo Mosaic, and Idaho 7 701, and Cheeky, Cheeky, Naughty, Sneaky, an 8.3% ABV DIPA featuring Cryo Mosaic, Cryo Simcoe, Cryo Citra, Vic Secret, and Mosaic HyperBoost.

• Sir Cancelot The Cautious (3.4% ABV) is a new pale ale from Electric Bear. Simcoe, Idaho 7, and Ella hops bring waves of peach iced tea, zesty grapefruit, and just a hint of black pepper spice. A touch of dankness rounds it out.

• The next beer in Northern Monk’s Northern Wild series is actually a beer/cider hybrid. The 4.6% ABV brew has been made using wild yeast from apples and Brett Bruxellensis. Expect funky, tart flavours, and a clear apple character, with a hint of smoke and malt sweetness on the finish. 

• Chester-based Admiral Taverns has chosen Merseyside-based Claire House Children’s Hospice as its 2025 charity partner. To launch their fundraising efforts, Admiral employees, family, friends, and even pets will be walking almost 22km on Saturday, 17th May, to raise money for the hospice.

• Hologram (8.4% ABV) is Track’s latest Gold Top brew. It’s a DIPA hopped with Citra, Citra 702, Nectaron, Nectaron Cryo, Eggers Special, and Riwaka. “Every sip tastes like a soothing mouthful of mango lassi,” says the brewer. “A glazing of your gullet with the syrup from sliced tinned peaches, and the guilty pleasure of pineapple on pizza, whilst the lick of lactose transports you to a summer’s day spent scouring piazzas for soft, Sicilian gelato.”

• The beer that started the UnBarred journey is back, in cask. Benchmark IPA (4.7% ABV) boasts a fragrance of fresh hops and soft fruitiness, alongside a palate of gentle, biscuity malts. It finishes with a crisp dryness that shines a spotlight on the citrus character of Amarillo and Simcoe hops. Expect bursts of tangerine, grapefruit, tropical fruits, and pine.

• Neptune are bringing back a number of old favourites to celebrate their tenth anniversary, and among these is Namaka, a 5% ABV hibiscus and passion fruit wheat beer. Passion fruit leads the way, with light floral notes from hibiscus flowers, finishing with a crisp, thirst-quenching tartness.

• Firebird, a 6.5% ABV IPA, is new from Tartarus. It’s double-dry-hopped with El Dorado, Eclipse, Krush, and Enigma for aromas and flavours of citrus peel, mandarin, tropical fruits, and stonefruits. Also new is Barghest (4.5% ABV) gluten-free DDH pale hopped with Mosaic, Rakau, and Wai-iti.

• Mining for Nectaron (6% ABV) is a new IPA from Wild Horse. Hugely fruit forward with a soft and fluffy mouthfeel, with a touch of bitterness to round it off and enhance the drinkability,” says the brewer.

• Black Country Ales has acquired its 53rd pub site, The Bitter Suite, in Lichfield. The pub will re-open in the summer following a refurbishment.

• Legacy, a dragon fruit IPA (6% ABV), from SALT, pays tribute to British tattoo icon Mike Stockings, sharing its name with his Suffolk studio. The brew is hopped with Mosaic and Talus.

• Newbarns have created their first Italian pilsner. Azzurra (5% ABV) is crisp, with a clean malt base accented by fragrant floral and herbal hop aromas, balanced bitterness, and a dry, refreshing finish. It was born after some of the Newbarns team returned, inspired, from Italy.