Jetty Road XPA

Slotting in between their Pale and IPA (with Steady Street forming the lowest ABV end of their core range hop quartet), Jetty Road's XPA is more than a filler as it offers a very different character to the beers by which it's bookended. Indeed, with head brewer Blake Bowden enjoying beers with a little more hoppy bite than some of those he's put into the brewery's lineup, he regards this as his pale ale.

The hop character leans towards to the citrus – from soft mandarin to pithy grapefruit – while it's noticeably drier and leaner and delivers a bigger, piney bitterness than its stablemates too.

James Smith