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First published in BEER February 2008. ABV: 3.8 and 5.5 per cent Allendale Brewery beers The small and remote riverside town of Allendale, just shy of Hadrian’s Wall, is home to one of England’s most youthful breweries. For brewer and co-founder Tom Hick it’s his first job since leaving college: he went from a zoology [...] First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts. For more imperial stouts see previous post. ABV: 11 per cent Rogue XS Imperial Stout Founded in 1988, Rogue are now a mainstay of the craft brewing hotbed of the Pacific Northwest and among the handful of small US brewers [...] First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts. For more imperial stouts see previous post. ABV: 10.5 per cent Dark Star Imperial Stout Dark Star originated at the Evening Star brewpub in Brighton in 1991. Ten years later the brewery, which now owns three pubs, moved to a [...] First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts. For more imperial stouts see previous post. ABV: 10 per cent BrewDog Paradox James Watt and Martin Dickie opened Grampian-based Brewdog only a year ago but they’ve already caused a stir with their original and distinctive brews, and a youthful [...] First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts. ABV: 9% De Dolle Brouwers Special Extra Export Stout Imperial Stout was a souped-up 19th century development of London porter that found favour in Tsarist. A century later the sole surviving original brand from Barclay Perkins ended up in the dubious [...] De Smaak van Echt 2010 Following the success of a similar initiative last year, four Dutch independent family brewers have worked together again to launch De Smaak van Echt 2010 (The Real Taste), a gift pack featuring four new and exclusive one-off beers, all warm fermented and unpasteurised. Alfa of Schinnen, Limburg, has contributed Alfa Echt 2010 (5.5%), [...] Brouwerij Florindia A number of new brewing enterprises have launched in the Netherlands in the past year, reports PINT Nieuws, journal of Dutch beer consumers’ organisation PINT. Launched in April 2009, Brouwerij Florindia is the brainchild of Mikael Kok, formerly a home brewer whose commercial ambitions developed brewing beer as gifts for clients of his international IT business. [...] First published in BEER December 2007 as part of a piece about strong beers for the festive season. For more strong festive beers see previous post. ABV: 9 per cent Abbaye des Rocs Spéciale Noël Belgium excels at producing strong bottle conditioned ales for laying down, including seasonal specials that are well worth keeping [...] |
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