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Beer gets on the bike at Denver Convention Center. As a veteran of the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) visiting the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) for the first time, you’re inevitably drawn to make comparisons. And the one that comes spontaneously to my mind is that the GABF is, well, sexier. Although […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 8.2% Origin: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA Website: http://www.troegs.com Tröegs Troegenator Doublebock Beer Most of the more celebrated American craft brews are warm fermented ales, but here’s an East Coast microbrewer making a very convincing fist of an original European extreme lager style, the Doppelbock. The […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 9% Origin: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Website: http://www.sweetwaterbrew.com SweetWater Dank Tank Magnum IP Imperial Pilsner If the beers I tried from below the Mason-Dixon Line at the GABF are anything to go by, the craft breweries of the Deep South are quickly catching up with […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 5.7% Origin: Lahaina, Hawaii, USA Website: http://www.mauibrewingco.com Maui CoCoNut PorTeR I’ d been wanting to try this celebrated speciality beer since I met its brewer, the charming Garrett W Marrero, at the Rake in London earlier this year, when he was over to brew a cask version […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 9.75% Origin: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA Website: www.foothillsbrewing.com Foothills Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout If this beer is anything to go by, craft brewing in the US has gone south with a vengeance. A small production brewpub with a penchant for cask ale and a nifty line in […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 7.5% Origin: Tampa, Florida, USA Website: www.cigarcitybrewing.com Cigar City Humidor Series As the crowds poured into the Colorado Convention Centre on the opening night of the Great American Beer Festival, the queues soon began to form at some predictable locations, such as Lost Abbey […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 8.5% Origin: Kansas City, Missouri, USA Website: www.boulevard.com Boulevard Smokestack Series Saison Brett Boulevard, founded by John Macdonald on Kansas City’s historic Southwest Boulevard in 1989, now claims to be the biggest speciality brewer in the Mid-West and the second largest brewer of any type in Missouri. […] First published in Beers of the World February 2008 San Francisco is a vibrant and cosmopolitan place with a reputation for both alternative lifestyles and fine food and drink, and a major tourist destination located in the heart of the one of the world’s most innovative and exciting beer regions. So it’s curious that city […] Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7.7% Origin: Escondido, California, USA Website: www.stonebrew.com Stone Ruination IPA. With lots of hops. Stone is one of the most prominent and successful of new generation Californian micros, thanks to the quality of its beers and to a risky and slightly macho but ultimately rather […] Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7.7% Origin: Santa Rosa, California, USA Website: www.russianriverbrewing.com Russian River Damnation Golden Ale This was the first Belgian-inspired bottle conditioned beer I tried from one of California’s leading micros, a strong golden ale broadly in the style of Duvel that’s claimed three GABF medals so […] |
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