Writing this piece was one of the things that inspired me to launch this website. My mate Chris, who edits the Stereo Jealousy music blog, habitually starts the year by selecting the best albums and singles of the previous one. Seeing his 2008 list inspired me to look back over my tasting notes, for a year that [...]
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Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5.1% Trunk Vierzehnheiligen Nothelfer Bier I tried this wonderful unpasteurised Dunkel fresh from its cask at the Pigs Ear festival. The brewery, in a rural setting behind a basilica in a Franconian village named for “the fourteen saints”, has a distant monastic tradition [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 4.3% Stewart Edinburgh No 3 Premium Scottish Ale I was recently enthusing to a Scottish friend and fellow beer enthusiast about the recent improvements in the Scottish brewing scene, to a somewhat arch and cynical response. “Aye, there are more brewers, it’s [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5.5% Sainte Hélène La Djean d'Mady Founded in 1999 by home brewer Eddy Pourtois, who named it after a street he walked down when working as a postman, Ste-Hélène, originally in Virton, has contributed to the emerging excitement of the microbrewing [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook, January 2009. ABV: 10% Southern Tier hoppe extra pale ale ‘Southern Tier’ is the informal geographical term for the southwest counties of New York state, and was also the name chosen by Phineas DeMink & Allen “Skip” Yahn when they set up [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was published on facebook January 2009. ABV: 7.7% Southampton Cuvée des Fleurs The Southampton Publick House, Don and Charlie Sullivan’s acclaimed brewpub in the town of the same name at the eastern end of Long Island, has been open since 1996, and some of its [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 2.5% "De Regenboog brews Mesopotamian beer: Archaeologists find recipe in Syrian song from 1800BC." An interesting attempt to recreate an authentic ancient beer made in collaboration with the brewing school of Leuven university (KUL), this one-off was brewed on [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 6% Brasserie Oc'Ale One of the surprises in store at specialist French beer shop Cave à Bulles in Paris is that craft brewing in France has now spread far beyond its historic home in the North, even to the warmer climes of the Midi. [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 4.5% Nethergate Augustinian Brewer Ian Hornsey, a former microbiologist, has been turning out excellent beers on a commercial scale since 1986, and has worked from his current site since 2005. He’s particularly renowned for reviving the use of herbs in brewing and contributing to [...] |
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