Best Summer Beers To Try 2025

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Five Summer beers – three colourful cans and two bottles lined up

Looking for the best summer beers to drink in the park or at home? Check out our favourite winter beers, sour beers, British beers, lagers, IPAs and our guide to craft beers. For cocktail lovers, we also have our best beer cocktails. Are you the designated driver? You can still enjoy beers this summer with our round-up of non-alcoholic beers.

Now discover our best picnic food ideas to enjoy with your beer, or browse our picks of the best summer cookbooks to buy for fresh recipe inspiration.

Best summer beers to try

St Austell Brewery Anthem session pale ale

Available from Tesco (£4.50/4 x 440ml)

Session beers are in hot demand and this release from Cornish brewery St Austell is a great choice for pale ale drinkers. Using four different British-grown hops, it’s flavourful and fruity, with assertive but well-balanced hoppiness.

Available from:
Tesco (£4.50/4 x 440ml)

Vault City Triple Fruited Mango Sour Beer

Available from The Whisky Exchange (£3.50/44cl)

A can and a full glass of Vault triple fruited mango sour beer

A fresh, juicy sour, crammed with mango flavours and aromas, gentle tanginess and a slightly saline edge.

Available from:
The Whisky Exchange (£3.50/44cl)

Brewgooder Fonio Session IPA

Available from Waitrose (£6.65)

This fruity, crisp IPA is a collab from purpose-led brewery Brewgooder and NYC brew legend Brooklyn, made using fonio – a West African heritage grain sourced from smallholder farms in the region. Sales go towards clean water initiatives and further investment in growers.

Available from:
Waitrose (£6.65)

Sober Brummie

Available from Birmingham Brewing Company (£2.85/330ml)

We were really impressed with this award-winning 0.5% pale ale. Triple hopped, it's absolutely rammed with bold citrus and piney flavours that makes for one of the best non-alcoholic beers we've tried.

Available from:
Birmingham Brewing Company (£2.85/330ml)

People’s Captain Legend APA

Available from People's Captain (£20.99/8 pack)

A classic American pale ale with a piney, citrus kick, this is great served with spicy summery food like tacos or kebabs. A percentage of each beer sold also goes to the People's Captain Foundation to support mental health initiatives.

Available from:
People's Captain (£20.99/8 pack)