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Top tastings 2009 ABV: 8.1% De Molen Bloed, Zweet en Tranen Menno Olivier’s De Molen (“the mill”) brewery is in a 17th century windmill called De Ardkuif beside the Oude Rijn river bang in the middle of the Groene Hart, the rural “green heart” within the urban cordon of the Netherlands’ major cities. From this [...] Top Tastings 2009 A shorter version of this piece originally appeared in BEER May 2009 as one of several milds for May. ABV: 4.4% Hobsons Postman's Knock May is the month to celebrate beers which in the words of the promotional materials for CAMRA’s endangered beer styles campaign are “smooth and suave, tall, dark [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 10% Hair of the Dog Adam
Hair of the Dog, founded in 1993 by Alan Sprints, is now known as one of the most adventurous and consistently high-hitting breweries in the craft brewing heartland of the Pacific Northwest. They clearly started as they meant to go on — this massive [...] Top Tastings 2009, Beer Sellers: Landbierparadies, Nürnberg ABV: 5% Grasser Hupperdorfer Bier Vollbier, “full beer”, is a tax category that accounts for the vast majority of German beers and rarely appears on labels, except in Franconia where it’s become specialised to full-bodied standard strength lagers that come out a deeper shade of blond. This [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 9 per cent Glazen Toren Saison d'Erpe-Mere You’d expect something special from the “glass tower”, a relatively young micro tucked away in the hilly country of the so-called “Flemish Ardennes” — it was co-founded by beer writer and leading Belgian beer expert Jef Van den Steen, editor of De Zytholoog, [...] Note this post has been superceded. It has been left here for archival reasons. Read a more complete and up-to-date post about this beer. Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 8% Note: tasting notes on further vintages can be found after the main article. Fuller's Vintage Ale 1999 My favourite beer event of 2009 [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 8% De Dolle Brouwers Cosmos Porter This experimental brew divides opinion. I’ve spoken to several people who have hated it, and even its brewer, Kris Herteleer, seemed in two minds about it when serving it to the public at the 2009 Zythos beer festival in Sint-Niklaas, but it was voted [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 9% Dogfish Head 90 minute Imperial IPA From a modest British session India Pale Ale (see previous posting) to an all-cylinders-firing modern North American twist on the style. Dogfish Head started in 1995 as the first brewpub in Delaware, in Reheboth Beach, in its day the smallest brewery in the United States. Success [...] Top Tastings 2009. ABV: 4.5% This tiny brewery was set up in 1992 in the Concertina Band Club at Mexborough, near Doncaster, essentially to brew beer for the club, though occasionally its beers seep out to beer festivals, especially since Roger Protz featured this particular beer in his 300 Beers To Try Before You [...] |
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