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Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 4% Bryncelyn began as a tiny brewery in the cellar of the Wern Fawr Inn at Ystalyfera in 1999 and steadily built up a reputation as one of Wales’ best small cask ale breweries — it’s since expanded to new premises in industrial workshops at Ystradgynlais. The name means Holly [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 6.5% Binche / Belgoo Luppoo Historically, hop character hasn’t figured highly on the list of all the many and varied features of Belgian beers, which are better known for their richly malty, sweetish, sour and spicy flavours. According to lambic brewer Frank Boon, in the pre-war period high hop rates [...] Top Tastings 2009. A shorter version was originally published in BEER November 2009 as part of a piece about strong ales for winter.
Amager Imperial Stout ABV: 10.1% No roundup of winter brews would be complete without a real imperial stout, and one of the very best I’ve tasted comes from under the flight path of [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 12% AleSmith Speedway Stout AleSmith brewery, based in the naval city of San Diego in southern California, emerged like many US craft breweries from the home brewing movement and has established itself as one of the most appreciated producers of big, strong “extreme” beers, with a range of specialities, [...] Originally published in BEER June 2006 as part of a piece about beers in Asda supermarkets ABV: 5 per cent St Austell Smuggler's Ale I’ve been drinking a lot of St Austell beers recently: a trip deep into the brewery’s territory to research a pub walk coincided with receiving samples of [...] Originally published in BEER May 2006 Note this brewery has since closed. For more milds see previous post. ABV: 4.2 per cent Fenland / Isle of Ely Smokestack Lightning Fenland opened in Chatteris in 1998 and moved to the Isle of Ely in 2004 after a change [...] Originally published in BEER May 2006 ABV: 3.6 per cent Iceni Honey Mild and Thetford Forest Mild A few years back, each May arrived with a tough challenge for your humble reviewer: finding a new bottle conditioned mild to write about. But in the [...] Originally published in BEER April 2006 ABV 4.5 and 7.5 per cent Hogs Back Wobble in a Bottle I’ve long regarded Hogs Back as one of Britain’s most outstanding bottled beer producers, so I was delighted to hear of its success at this year’s CAMRA Champion Winter [...] Originally published in BEER March 2006 See previous post for more Welsh beers. Note Cwrw Castell has since been discontinued. ABV 3.8 and 5.6 per cent Conwy Cwrw Castell At the opposite, northern end of Wales is another relatively new micro that takes [...] |
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