The Buckinghamshire brewery has invested in the new tanks to enable the production of more of the beers in its ‘Animal’ range.

In addition, it has taken delivery of several oak casks for its forthcoming barrel-ageing programme.

Russ Taylor, co-founder at XT, said the investment in new tanks would allow the brewery to brew more keg beers and continue to diversify with new recipes.

Two such examples are two new collaboration, its Donkey 4.8% WitBier and its Pukeko 4.6% Espresso Pale Ale.

The former is an Anglo/Italian WitBier that is made with the innovative Italian Brewery BBBirra – based on the Bosaland farm in Sardinia.

Taylor explained: “ They make artisanal beers using locally sourced ingredients. Their head brewer Carl joined the team at XT and brought several of the speciality ingredients for the Wit beer.

“The pale cloudy wheat beer has a spiced edge and hints of orange from Sardinian orange peel. The beer is named for the 15 donkeys Carl has on his farm and who eat all his spent brewers grains.”

For Pukeko, it has joined forces with premium coffee micro-roastery in the historic Jericho neighbourhood of Oxford – Jericho Coffee Traders.

Taylor added: “Aided by the extensive coffee know-how of James and Lizzie, we have created a coffee infused pale ale: Animal ‘Pukeko’ named for their little delivery truck and New Zealand heritage. A unique flavour hit of coffee and topped off with a dash of New Zealand hops.”

Elsewhere, XT will soon be releasing XT-IPA, its debut in cans. The 4.2% American hopped beer will be available in 330ml cans from June.