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William Worthington Red Shield European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011 ABV: 4.2% Origin: Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England Website: www.molsoncoors.co.uk Legendary former Bass brewer Steve Wellington, who still presides over the microbrewery at what is now the Coors Visitor Centre in Burton though is set to retire this summer, developed this […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.4% Origin: Plzeň, Plzeňský kraj, Czech Republic Website: www.prazdroj.cz Plzeňský Prazdroj's head brewer Václav Berka serves up his Kvasnicový at the European Beer Bloggers Conference, London, May 2011. Pic: Reuben Gray, www.taleofale.com The second word in the name of this famous Bohemian brewery […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011 ABV: 8.15% Origin: Stabio, Ticino, Switzerland Website: www.badattitude.ch Birrificio Ticinese Bad Attitude Two Penny Porter Yes, another brewer with a bad attitude, this time explicity proclaimed, and hailing from well-behaved Switzerland, though from the Italian speaking region, within a stone’s throw of the Italian border. […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011 ABV: 8.2% Origin: Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland Website: http://www.innisandgunn.com/ Innis & Gunn Oak Aged Beer Scotland’s Innis & Gunn specialises in oak ageing beer — “like no other beer”, they’ve been known to claim rather inaccurately, although their take on the process is unusual. It came about when […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.5% Origin: Nynäshamn, Södermanland, Sweden Website: www.nyab.se Nynäshamns Bedarö Bitter One of the highlights of the Beer Bloggers Conference was a Night of Many Beers hosted by Camden Town brewery, most of which I spent hovering by the table of Swedish and Italian […] European Beer Bloggers Conference, London, May 2011 What low horizons we Europeans sometimes have. When I first got an email inviting me to the first ever European Beer Bloggers Conference, my first thought was that it must be a joke or a scam. Not that I thought European beer bloggers were unworthy of […] Banner for the Toer de Geuze 2011 on display at 3 Fonteinen. Snobbery aside, there are some potentially defensible grounds on which to build a case that making wine is a higher field of human endeavour than making beer. Winemakers squeeze the maximum complexity and variety from the minimum of means. From New […] Toer de Geuze 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 6% Origin: Lembeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.boon.be Traditional lambic crocks and samples at Boon, Lembeek On very rare occasions I taste a beer that’s so extraordinary it sends my rating system off the scale, and this, sampled direct from one of the gigantic oak […] Toer de Geuze 2011 ABV: 5% Origin: Gooik, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.decam.be De Cam brewery and museum, Gooik De Cam is a blender rather than a brewery, buying in lambics from Boom, Girardin and Lindemans, so I’ve no idea where this beer was actually brewed, but it was matured for at least one […] |
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