Beers keep coming thick and fast from Thornbridge. With the brewers’ imaginations working overtime, it’s hard to keep track of their latest releases.

What you can be sure of, however, is that whatever turns up next is going to be interesting and accomplished. These two beers, released over the summer, are no exception.

The first is a Bavarian-style wheat beer. They call it Versa in a play on ‘weiss’ (pronounced ‘vice’), the German word for this type of beer.

This is not a British take on the style: it is actually a very close homage to the original and if you were served this in Munich biergarten you’d assume that it had been brewed not many miles away.

The hallmarks of the weissbier style are a hazy golden colour, a big rocky foam head and an aroma of bubblegum, clove and vanilla. Versa ticks all these boxes with no trouble.

It also matches the taste profile, being full of banana, clove, bubblegum and tart apple notes, along with a slightly salty/savoury character up front. All these weissbier elements continue into the finish, which is dry and becomes gradually bitter.

What marks Versa out from many other examples of the style is perhaps the fact that is not quite as sweet, but otherwise this hits the spot as an effervescent, tasty, quenching drink for a hot day.

The second beer, Kill Your Darlings, also pays tribute to a classic continental beer style. Forget the somewhat abstract name – a reference to the work of urban artist Kid Acne – this is a Vienna-style lager, suitably red in colour and enjoying five weeks’ cold maturation.

Quite how the original Vienna reds would have tasted is anyone’s guess, as the style faded quickly over the 19th- and 20th-centuries and, while interpretations survived in Mexico of all places (thanks to Austria’s short-term colonization of the country), all genuine Vienna-brewed versions were lost.

Modern interpretations vary from brew to brew, but Thornbridge has majored on a solid, treacle-like malt base that has hints of chocolate.

Fresh, grassy hop notes float over the top and, together with the beneficial effects of long lagering, ensure a crisp cleanness to the finished brew.

Tangy, grassy hops linger long in the dry, ultimately bitter finish.

There are some very fine lagers being produced in Britain today. Kill Your Darlings now joins the gang.