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Greene King Visitor Centre entrance: disused copper Brewery visits are some beer writers’ bread and butter but I confess I’ve been on very few. Certainly, visiting Greene King, now probably the UK’s biggest brewer that isn’t a multinational, wasn’t high on my to-do list. But then I was in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, […] Top Tastings 2010 (Strong Suffolk) ABV: 6%, 6.5% and 6% Origin: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Website: www.greeneking.co.uk Greene King Suffolk Springer These three beers offer currently the only options for public access to Greene King’s legendary Old 5X, Britain’s only surviving wood aged beer made on a commercial scale. GK have long […] First published in BEER August 2008. One of the pleasures of good weather is al fresco dining, but discerning beer drinkers needn’t feel they have to reach for the bottles of bubbly or, even worse, haul a slab of the amber nectar for from the fridge. Bottle conditioned beers can be subtle, sophisticated and robustly […] A shorter version of this review was first published in BEER August 2008 as part of a piece about beers for summer outdoor drinking. For more summer beers, see previous post. ABV: 4.2% Origin: Downton, Wiltshire, England Website: www.hopback.co.uk Hop Back Brewery From this Wiltshire micro’s well distributed portfolio of bottle conditioned beers […] A shorter version of this review was first published in BEER August 2008 as part of a piece about beers for summer outdoor drinking. ABV: 4% Origin: Tyndyrn, Sir Fynwy, Cymru Website: www.meadowfarm.org.uk, www.kingstonebrewery.co.uk Kingstone Gold Originally established in 2005 at Kinsons Farm, Gwenffrwd (Whitebrook) nearby, this small brewery moved two years later […] First published in BEER July 2008 as part of a piece on beers recently converted to bottle conditioning. For more similar beers see previous post. Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 4.8 per cent Origin: Hook Norton, Oxfordshire Website www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk Hook Norton Double Stout A steam-driven Victorian […] First published in BEER July 2008 as part of a piece on beers recently converted to bottle conditioning. Young’s Bitter also included in Top Tastings 2008. ABV: 4.5 and 4.8 per cent Origin: Bedford, Bedfordshire Website www.wellsandyoungs.co.uk Wells and Young's Young's Bitter When you consider how perilously close British bottle conditioned beer was […] Top Tastings 2010 (Verdi Black Jack) ABV: 5%, 8.2% and 8% Origin: Roncole Verdi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Website: www.birrificiodelducato.com Italy, as I’ve mentioned here before, is currently one of the beer world’s innovation hotspots, with an emerging craft brewing movement fusing native respect for fine food and drink with a creative energy partly inspired by US […] First published in BEER June 2008 as part of a piece about wheat beers. Read more about wheat beers in previous post. ABV: 3.1 and 5.4 per cent Origin: Kulmbach, Franconia (Bavaria), Germany Website www.kulmbacher.de Kulmbacher Kapuziner Weißbier Leicht Kulmbacher Kapuziner Weißbier mit feiner Hefe Bavaria is, of course, one of […] |
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