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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
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"A necessity if you're a beer geek travelling to London town" - Beer Advocate
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"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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London Beer Tastings 2011. For more background on the brewery, see previous post.
ABV: 6.8%, 7.1% and 5.5% Origin: Bermondsey, London SE1, England Website: www.thekernelbrewery.com
Kernel Pale Ale
Besides its old fashioned dark beers, Kernel brews contemporary beers fresh with the flavours of new world hops. These too are of exceptional quality, […]
London Beer Tastings 2011. Export Stout was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.
ABV: 7.8% and 5.6% Origin: Bermondsey, London SE1, England Website: www.thekernelbrewery.com
Evin O'Riordan of The Kernel brewery, London SE1
Evin O’Riordan, founder and head brewer […]
Top Tastings 2009 / CAMRA North London Tasting 2010 / London beer tastings 2011 / Top Tastings 2011 (2001 vintage)
ABV: 8.5% Origin: Chiswick, London W6, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk
A run of Fuller's Vintage Ale poses for the camera, Hock Cellar, Fuller's Brewery, London W6, October 2011
Until the recent resurgence that […]
London Beer Tastings 2011. This beer was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.
ABV: 5.3% Origin: Chiswick, London W5, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk
Fuller's Bengal Lancer
Bengal Lancer was launched in 2009 as Fuller’s contribution to the growing range […]
London beer tastings 2011 For more background on the brewery see Camden Town Hells Lager
ABV: 4.5% and 5% Origin: Kentish Town, London NW5, England Website: www.camdentownbrewery.com
Tap handles line up at Camden Town Brewery. Pic: Mark Dredge.
Although the marvellously juicy and refreshing Hells Lager is to me Camden Town’s greatest achievement […]
London beer tastings 2011. For more Brodie’s beers and more background to the brewery, see previous post.
ABV: 3.1%, 3.9% and 5.7% Origin: Leyton, London E10, England Website: brodiesbeers.co.uk
Brodie's Citra
Like the brewery’s Amarilla, Citra is a popular, refreshing and approachable beer featuring an especially fragrant new US hop. A cask […]
London beer tastings 2011. For more Brodie’s beers , see previous post. For background to these tastings see the review of Amarilla. This beer featured in BEER August 2011 as part of a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London. Read about more bottled London beers.
ABV: 3.8%, 4.3% and 10% Origin: Leyton, London […]
National Homebrew Competition, Bristol 2011
National Homebrew Competition 2011: the view from the judging sheet. Pic: Phil Lowry of beermerchants.com.
Home brewing still struggles with a bad reputation in the UK. Folk memories of Boots kits bought principally on the promise of only a few pence for a pint “just like you drink […]
First published in Beers of the World June 2009
Westholme Stores, Goring-on-Thames — not your average local Londis.
Beer writing is full of unexpected pleasures – such as finding oneself in a pretty English village interviewing the owner of one of the best-stocked beer retailers in the region over a plate of homemade […]
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Cask This pioneering new book explains what makes cask beer so special, and explores its past, present and future. Order now from CAMRA Books. Read more here.
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