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Fox Nina’s Mild

First published in BEER May 2008 as part of a piece about Norfolk milds. More Norfolk milds in previous post.

ABV: 3.9 per cent
Origin: Heacham
Website: www.foxbrewery.co.uk  

Fox Nina's Mild

A more traditional example of vertical integration [than with Uncle Stuart's in the previous post] can be found at Heacham, a village on the Wash in northwest Norfolk [...]

Uncle Stuart’s Pack Lane Mild

First published in BEER May 2008 as part of a piece about Norfolk milds. More Norfolk milds in previous post.

ABV: 4 per cent
Origin: Lingwood
Website www.littlebeershop.co.uk

Uncle Stuart's Pack Lane Mild

Uncle Stuart’s on the outskirts of Norwich is one of a small but growing number of small breweries that are finding an alternative route to market with [...]

Tipples The Hanged Monk

First published in BEER May 2008 as part of a piece about Norfolk milds.
Beer sellers: Beers of Europe

ABV: 3.8 per cent
Origin: Acle
Website www.tipplesbrewery.com

Tipples The Hanged Monk

The English region most associated with mild is, of course, the West Midlands, still home to a good few classics in cask. But if you’re planning to celebrate the style [...]

Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet

First published in BEER April 2008 as part of a piece on beer in Sainsbury’s. More Sainsbury’s beers in previous post.

ABV: 8 per cent
Origin: Buggenhout, East Flanders, Belgium
Website www.bestbelgianspecialbeers.be

Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet

Flemish independent Bosteels, still in the hands of the same family that founded it in 1791, is best known for Pauwel Kwak – or rather [...]

Meantime Pale Ale, London Porter and India Pale Ale

First published in BEER April 2008 as part of a piece on beer in Sainsbury’s.

ABV:  4.7, 6.5 and 7.5 per cent
Origin: Charlton, London, England
Website www.meantimebrewing.com

Meantime Pale Ale

When Heriot-Watt and Weihenstephan-trained brewer Alastair Hook set up on his own in an industrial unit a stone’s throw from the Thames Barrier in 2000, he chose to follow [...]

Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter

First published in BEER March 2008 as part of a piece about Welsh beers. For more Welsh beers see previous post.

ABV:  4.2 per cent
Origin: Upper Cwmbran, Torfaen
Website www.cwmbranbrewery.co.uk

Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter

When Martin Lewis and Keith Gullick first created this cottage brewery fed from a mountain spring under the shadow of Mynydd Maen in 1996, they [...]

Ffos y Ffin Cothi Gold and Paxton's Pride

First published in BEER March 2008 as part of a piece about Welsh beers. For more Welsh beers see previous post.

ABV:  3.9 and 5.5 per cent
Origin: Capel Dewi, Sir Gaerfyrddin
Website www.ffosyffinbrewery.co.uk

Bragdy Ffos y Ffin

Dairy farmer Glyn Lenton took over Ffos y Ffin farm outside Capel Dewi in rural Carmathenshire in 1990. Some years later he [...]

Otley O-Garden and O8

First published in BEER March 2008 as part of a piece about Welsh beers.
Beer sellers: Meadow Farm Shop

ABV:  4.8 and 8 per cent
Origin: Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Website www.otleybrewing.co.uk

Otley O-Garden

Last month’s BEER previewed CAMRA’s Members’ Weekend in Cardiff by featuring Welsh beer and breweries, with my colleague Brian Glover reporting Wales is “fermenting furiously again, with [...]

O’Hanlon’s Tesco Finest Bottle Conditioned Ale

O'Hanlon's Brewing Company Ltd

First published in BEER February 2008.

ABV:  5 per cent
Origin: Whimple, Devon
Website www.ohanlons.co.uk

[Note this beer may since have been discontinued.]

In the interests of variety and even-handedness I aim to avoid featuring the same brewer on this page more than once a year. Over the past few months I’ve made a rare and well-deserved [...]

Little Valley Withens IPA

First published in BEER February 2008.

ABV:  3.9 per cent
Origin: Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
Website www.littlevalleybrewery.co.uk

Little Valley Withens IPA

As most readers will know, India Pale Ales were originally high gravity, generously hopped export products that later evolved into the more session-friendly draught interpretations still supplied by the likes of Caledonian and Greene King. It’s the original style [...]


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