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Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2008. ABV: 11% Molen de Arkduif, where Brouwerij de Molen is based. Photo: PH Louw, from Wikimedia Commons. Available from a huge claret cask at the Great British Beer Festival, this limited edition imperial porter is from one of Europe’s most innovative and consistently interesting [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2008. ABV: 7.5% Nøgne-Ø Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast As the name of this beer suggests, Danish-based but itinerant cult brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergsø is well aware of the enthusiast market and unsurprisingly the denizens of ratebeer.com and the like have taken very well [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 4.7% Mexicana Potro This beer, which claims to be a porter, split our tasting team down the middle when it popped up at the Tesco Drinks Awards judging in 2008. Although a blind tasting, the stylish and distinctive blue bottle was a giveaway. [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 9.9% Ithaca Beer Co Celebrating 10 Years According to the bottle, “too many malts to list” and “an excess of American hops” went into this rather special beer, which I bought bottle conditioned in a 750ml bottle from Bierkraft [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5.5% 't Hofbrouwerijke hofblues Hobby brewer Jef Goetelein dipped his toes into commercial brewing as a hirer of other brewers’ kit. In 2005, frustrated with this arrangement, he set up on his own “little farmyard brewery”, although still on a very small [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5.1% Hoepfner Kräusen Krug Hoepfner is an undersung family-owned independent founded in 1798 in Liedolsheim. It relocated to Karlsruhe in 1849 to take advantage of natural ice caves for lagering, and now claims to be one of the oldest established businesses [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5.3% Grolsch Premium Weizen They may have been bought up SAB-Miller but Grolsch are certainly keeping up the quality with this relatively new Bavarian-style wheat beer, which raised eyebrows by beating several German producers in blind tastings at the 2007 World Beer [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 13% Goose Island Bourbon County Stout Originally brewed to celebrate this outstanding brewery’s 1000th batch of beer in 1992, this became the USA’s first cask matured beer and started a cult phenomenon among enthusiasts. The first batches were matured in ex-Jim [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5% Brouwerij Girardin For the style this is easy drinking but top quality from one of the most respected lambic breweries, a cherry-red beer with a creamy, woody and tannic aroma rich and oily with natural cherry skin perfume. A spicily [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 4.7% Duvel Moortgat Vedett Extra White Previously Duvel Moortgat’s wheat beer offering was Steendonk, produced in partnership with Palm, but the partnership ended this year and this beer, DM’s very own replacement, came as a pleasantly good surprise. It’s cloudy and [...] |
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