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Originally published in What’s Brewing February 2005 Origin: Fremantle, Western Australia ABV: 5.2 per cent Buy from Sainsbury, Waitrose, Oddbins, specialist suppliers Little Creatures Pale Ale Aside from Coopers of Adelaide with their unique sparkling ales, Australia is a disappointing country beer-wise, awash with the sort of cheap and nasty lager that most […] Originally published in What’s Brewing January 2005 Origin: Knightwick, Worcestershire, England ABV: 6 per cent Buy from Brewery (tel 01886 821235, www.temevalley.co.uk ), specialist suppliers Teme Valley Hearth Warmer A few hundred years ago it wouldn’t have been uncommon for local breweries to keep their own patch of humulus lupus, but times have […] Originally published in What’s Brewing December 2004 Origin: Vorchdorf, Upper Austria ABV: 14 per cent Buy from Specialist suppliers Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier Samichlaus, an ideal sipping beer for the festive season, used to be the world’s strongest regularly brewed beer, and still claims to be its strongest lager. The name is Swiss […] Originally published in What’s Brewing November 2004 Note this beer may no longer be available in a bottle conditioned version. Origin: West Lydford, Somerset, England ABV: 7 per cent Buy from Specialist suppliers, regional Tesco Cottage Norman's Conquest Back in the mid-1990s this superb Somerset ale seemed poised to lead the bottled beer […] Originally published in What’s Brewing October 2004 Origin: Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England ABV: 4.5 per cent Buy from Specialist suppliers, brewery’s pubs, regional Tesco Burton Bridge Burton Porter There is a certain irony in a great porter coming from Burton upon Trent. Porter originated in 18th century London and became the first […] Originally published in What’s Brewing September 2004 Origin: St Austell, Cornwall, England ABV: 4.8 per cent Buy from Supermarkets, brewery’s pubs, mail order Website www.staustellbrewery.co.uk St Austell Clouded Yellow Clouded Yellow from St Austell, Cornwall’s only surviving traditional family brewery, must have one of Britain’s most evocative beer names. The clouded yellow is […] Originally published in What’s Brewing August 2004 Origin: Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium ABV: 5 per cent Buy from Specialist stockists Website www.cantillon.be Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus The lambic beers of the area in and around Brussels are the result of the ancient technique of “spontaneous” fermentation. Lambic brewers simply leave the wort exposed to […] Originally published in What’s Brewing July 2004 Origin: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany ABV: 4.8 per cent Buy from Specialist stockists Website www.frueh.de Früh Kölsch Kölsch is one of those delightfully idiosyncratic wrinkles of regional popular culture that makes life worth living: a beer that’s become part of the identity of a city. It might […] Originally published in What’s Brewing June 2004 Note this beer is no longer available in a bottle conditioned version, only in cask or filtered versions. Origin: Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England ABV: 6 per cent Freeminer Trafalgar India Pale Ale Freeminer Brewery, established in 1992 in the Royal Forest of Dean, is the source of […] |
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