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This beer featured in BEER November 2009 in a piece about strong ales for winter. ABV: 10% Pitfield's 1896 XXXX Stock Ale Pitfield Brewery is one of the pioneers of the British microbrewing revival, originally set up in 1981 in Pitfield Street, Hoxton, in the days long before the area became associated with edgy [...] First published in BEER August 2009. Jeff Evans, The Good Bottled Beer Guide, 7th edition The Great British Beer Festival sees the launch of the 7th edition of CAMRA’s Good Bottled Beer Guide, the swelling dimensions of which bear eloquent testimony to the resurgence of UK Real Ale in a Bottle. With each edition editor Jeff Evans [...] Featured as a selection from the new Good Bottled Beer Guide in BEER August 2009. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 4.8% Old Chimneys Brewery Former Greene King, Vaux and Broughton brewer Dr Alan Thomson has consistently produced small runs of innovative beers from his Suffolk micro and Old Amber is no [...] Featured as a selection from the new Good Bottled Beer Guide in BEER August 2009. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 6% Acorn Gorlovka Imperial Stout Acorn brewery has its origins in the old Barnsley Brewery, well known for its Barnsley Bitter. When this went into liquidation, eventually merging with Blackpool Brewery, [...] Featured in BEER August 2009 as a selection from the latest Good Bottled Beer Guide. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 4.4% Outstanding Brewery The immodestly named Outstanding Brewery in Bury, Greater Manchester, was launched only in 2008, although the involvement of one of Britain’s leading suppliers of microbrewing kit, David Porter, shows [...] Featured in BEER August 2009 as a selection from the latest Good Bottled Beer Guide. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 4.3% Spire 80 Shilling Ale Founded in 2006 by former Scots Guards musician David McLaren, and named for Chesterfield’s landmark twisted spire, this brewery has developed an interesting range of real ales in [...] This beer featured in BEER August 2009 as a selection from the new Good Bottled Beer Guide. ABV: 7% Hopshackle This is one of several beers I encountered during 2009 from Nigel Wright’s excellent Hopshackle Brewery: see my review of Historic Porter for more background. Double Momentum, an IPA so called as it is [...] |
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