FRESH BEER Catch up on the latest UK Craft Beer releases. SUPERMARKET WARS Cloudwater and Vault City beers in your shopping trolley. TWICB BEER TOURS Check out our curated & hosted Craft Beer Tours. TWICB PODCAST Rob is joined by Ben from Rivington Brewing Co. 60 ISSUE SIXTY APRIL 19th 2021 ISSUE 60 - 19 APRIL 2021 Thankfully the sun shone for most of us last week which enabled thirsty punters to enjoy beers again in pub gardens and outside taproom areas. Long may it continue. Plenty of great new Craft Beer releases last week as breweries re- veal their newest wares to coincide with the loosening of lockdown. If you really fancy saying good riddance to lockdown, then join us on one of our new Grand Beer Tours commencing in the second half of 2021, (Covid permitting). TWICB Grand Tours are carefully curated, hosted, long-weekend tours for small groups of Craft Beer fans. Tours are jointly hosted by TWICB and a leading UK Brewery and the Brewery Owner/Head Brewer will join the tour and be company throughout. Tours includes either 3 or 4 B&B nights hotel accommodation, in-destination ground transportation, tutored tasting events and beer launch events. Tours to Copenhagen, Denmark and New England in the US are now available to book. Check out the promotional pages in this Newsletter for more details. CONTENTS Beer Releases Beer Tours Brewer’s Corner Festivals Page 3 Page 19 Page 22 Page 25 TWICB Podcast Online Beer Taproom Directory Podcast Directory Page 28 Page 29 Page 38 Page 46 A big thank you to our current patreon supporters: John Stevens Jamie Ramsey Peter Corrigan Sue Johnson Angela Peterson Alex Postles Nick Flynn Jazz Hundal Charlie Smith Phantom Brewing Co. Dolphin Brewery Bekki Bentley White Berkshire Beer Box Ryan Charlton 2 LATEST UK CRAFT BEER RELEASES 12th– 18th APRIL 2021 Carnival Brewing Co. Tusk – Jermaine Stewart Lager 5.2% Black Lager This is a black lager with a hint of smoked malt, sweet and sour cherry puree. Expect bags of flavour and great mouthfeel. Refreshing sunny drinking. Overtone Brewing Co. It’s All Vic Secret 8% DIPA Single hop triple dry hopped DIPA fully expressing Vic Secret. Thick, juicy and bursting with flavours of pineapple, mango, passionfruit and citrus. Overtone Brewing Co. Explosions In The Cry 11% TIPA Citra, Citra Cryo, El Dorado, El Dorado Cryo, Motueka. It’s a triple. It’s got cryo hops. And it’s thick. Enjoy explosions of tropical, candyfloss and watermelon with hints of lemon and lime. Northern Monk Cheese & Onion Lager 5.4% Lager Collab with Seabrook Crisps. A crisp lager, with a sharp, full-bodied cheese and tangy onion flavour. The nation’s flavour crisp flavour and the nation’s favourite beer, in one can. Northern Monk Prawn Cocktail Gose 6.5% Gose Collab with Seabrook Crisps. A crisp, salty and sour gose packing that much-loved prawn cocktail punch. No prawns were harmed in the making of this beer. Northern Monk OFS035 7.1% Fruited IPA This is all-in hop juice, combining the tropical triple threat of Idaho-7, Bru-1 and Amarillo. With added papaya, guava, and passion fruit later in the brewing process to create a full-flavoured, silky IPA that’s dripping with Brazilian fruit bowl fire. Weighing in at 7.1%, this is a delightful beer/smoothie hybrid. Fierce Beer Very Big Flapjack – Fifth Birthday Edition #1 11% Oat Wine Collab with Brew York. Similar to a Barley wine, but with huge amount of oats in there, giving a smooth, soft body. Add to that some caramelly syrupiness and BOOM - Very Big Flapjack. 3 Fierce Beer Imp. Orange Scream – Fifth Birthday Edition #2 8.5% Imperial Orange Ice Cream Ale Collab with Amundsen. From their original Orange Scream, Fierce have dialled the orange and vanilla up to 11, creating a beer that transports you back to childhood days, sitting on the beach with an orange and vanilla ice lolly. Smooth, decadent, and refreshing. Fierce Beer Very Big Chomp – Fifth Birthday Edition #3 12% Imperial Chocolate & Caramel Stout This is a seriously huge imperial stout that has massively decadent levels of caramel, chocolate, and vanilla. One sip will transport you back to your school tuck shop days. Fierce Beer Lots Of Nelson – Fifth Birthday Edition #4 8.5% Imperial Sour Collab with NZ Beer Collective. This is an imperial sour brewed with grape juice and a lot of NZ's finest; Nelson Sauvin hops. With a light tartness and a full vinous flavour, it packs a really juicy punch. Fierce Beer Bourbon Maple V.B.M – Fifth Birthday Edition #5 12.5% Imperial Stout Brewed with copious amounts of sweet maple syrup that goes toe to toe with the rich vanilla and chocolate stout profiles, this imperial stout then hibernated in bourbon barrels for nine months. Fierce Beer Emergency Haze – Fifth Birthday Edition #6 10% TIPA Collab with Dugges. This super hazy and juicy Triple IPA has been smashed with Azacca, Kashmir, and Bru-1 hops. Big and full-bodied with a sweet tropical hop hit. Track Brewing Co. The Valley Overhead 4.2% Pale Ale A beautiful light Pale Ale, with one of their absolute favourites, Simcoe. Light pine and orange zest, giving you all kinds of goodness. A beer best enjoyed in pints. Track Brewing Co. Down The Line 4.8% Pale Ale This is a straight-up, down the line smashable pale ale. Soft melon from Citra and a slightly grassy, pleasantly herbal quality from Riwaka meld with the light malt base and lower finishing gravity to leave a refreshing, lime peel finish. Track Brewing Co. Time Is Dancing 6% West Coast IPA Bucket loads of bitter orange on the nose with peach, stone fruit and some resinous undertones. Assertively bitter and with a more malt-forward base plus their special technique which leaves a sticky, almost waxy, aromatic coating on the palate. 4 Track Brewing Co. Heavy Rotation 6.5% IPA An IPA malt base with extra pale barley, oats and wheat acts as a pillowy base that lets the hops slide on through. Citra, Taiheke and Bru-1 bring the noise in this beer, punching with orange zest, peach and pineapple and a moderate bitterness that balances out the ripe fruit notes and lets them sing. Track Brewing Co. Don’t Let It Go To Your Head 6.5% IPA Designed to be lighter, more zippy and refreshing you'll find mild bready malt notes accented by Mosaic and Meridian which bring beautifully clean citrus peel aromatics and deliver soft honeydew melon, pear and papaya. The finish is lingering yet soft with a pleasing mouth-coating quality and flavours of orange starbursts. Yonder Brewing & Blending Sundial 4.5% Helles Collab with Donzoko. Refreshing and herbal Helles with foraged nettles. A delicious herbal Helles, brewed with Somerset nettles, a close biological relative to hops, and with a similar herbal flavour to noble varieties. Wander Beyond Brewing Vulpes 15% Imperial Stout From the first sip you're bombarded with intense dark bitter chocolate from the carefully selected combination of malts. You're then hit with the boozy notes you'd expect from a beer of this calibre. But with such an elegant and oily mouthfeel, this big hitter goes down smoothly. Attic Brew Co. Distraction 4.5% Session IPA A full-bodied session IPA with a full suite of fruit flavours, from citrus to melon, stones fruit to coconut. Attic Brew Co. Descent Of Man 9.6% Imperial Stout A straight up no adjunct Imperial Stout, with 9 different malts bringing flavours of black coffee, dark chocolate and treacle. Attic Brew Co. Fig.1 5.4% Mixed Fermentation BA Sour Utilising mixed fermentation and barrel ageing techniques to provide depth and complexity, the "Figure" range shows off a refined, sophisticated side to beer. Fig. 1 has a distinct peach character, with a little toasted orange peel added to the mix. Dry, crisp and oaky with a restrained sourness. 5 5 years of premium canning 100s of happy customers 10,000,000+ cans produced Adaptive solutions for beer, hard seltzer, cocktails & much more. Product design services available. Find out more at www.themthatcan.com [email protected] THE UK’S LEADING SUPPLIER OF MOBILE CANNING Attic Brew Co. Fig.2 5.6% Mixed Fermentation BA Sour Utilising mixed fermentation and barrel ageing techniques to provide depth and complexity, the "Figure" range shows off a refined, sophisticated side to beer. Fig. 2 has notes of passion fruit and caramelised pineapple. Crisp and sparkling with plenty of oak flavour from the barrel gives this a distinguished dry white wine character. Vibrant Forest Brewery Out Of Exile 4.9% Pale Ale A wonderful juicy 4.9% tasty pale made with an abundance of Sabro and Ekuanot hops giving huge coconut, citrus and tropical fruit flavours and aromas. Vibrant Forest Brewery The Great Below 10% Doppelbock For this limited release they have aged their Imperial Doppelbock, Downward Spiral, in first generation Rum barrels for 8 months and the results are sublime. Big malt sweetness and a big presence of oak and rum follow with a little chocolate warmth. Brick Brewery West Coast IPA 6.3% IPA A resinous, classic, bitter West Coast-style IPA with a pine, spice and grapefruit profile. Dry-hopped generously at 15g/l with Chinook, Columbus, Cashmere and Summit. Brick Brewery Mango & Apricot Sour 4.7% Fruited Sour A thick, modern sour, fermented with Kveik yeast and their house lactobacillus, fruited with masses of Alphonso mango and Apricot puree. Verdant Brewing Co. Dipper’s Delight 8% DIPA Creamy and decadent with a truly panoramic vista of fruit and pine hop flavours, all courtesy of the superstar hop grouping of Idaho 7, Mosaic and Simcoe.