Craft Metropolis Online Craft Beer Blog

This week saw beer shelves adorned marshmallow sours, Black IPAs and the return of the Polly’s DIPA that brought Polly’s widespread acclaim.
However, this week, this list can only start with one very special stout. Strap in!

New Amundsen Desserts In Cans! A new pale ale that rivals Steady Rolling Man! And a banging Yuzu sour from an unsuspecting brewery that always punches above its weight. Ready?

Brew York’s new Tonka milk stout, an experimental Triple IPA from Vocation and a Polly’s Imperial Sour! The brew train continues!

DEYA’s first ever Triple IPA, a show-stopping mild from Boxcar and an Iron Brew sour! Are you as excited as I am?
This week’s list is, once again, off the charts!

Verdant Putty, a Burnt Mill / Finback collab and Gipsy Hill’s first ever pastry stout. Hold on to your beard because this week’s new beers list is a corker!

Here’s my round up of the best new beer releases this week.

Buxton’s Coward, a DEYA bitter and a new passion fruit weisse from sour kings Pastore. It can only be one thing! That’s right. It’s my round up of the best new beers out there this week. Darks 1. Buxton / Omnipollo – Coward 2021 Imperial Pastry Stout Buxton’s Coward 2021 is finally here! This epic stout has […]

Sour beers used to sit solely in the expert realm of the Belgian specialist or the hardcore beer nerd. But these days, sour beers are bursting into the mainstream more and more – especially as sour beers are no longer just for summer. So with that in mind, in this post we look at some […]

Five years ago, when my online craft beer club (as it then was) first sprang into existence, Craft Metropolis stocked only beers from specialist, London-based craft breweries. It gave the club a new slant on an existing concept. It allowed us to operate as a tiny business in a market dominated by one or two […]

In craft beer circles, every year that unfolds eventually becomes the year of something or other. Certain yeasts, for example. Or certain varieties of hops. More often than not, certain beer styles take the annual ‘year of’ crown – like back in 2018, when everyone seemed excited about brut IPA. I’ve reported before that every […]