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Top Tastings 2011 (bottled Cuvée d’Oscar) ABV: 6.5% and 7.5% Craig Allan Cuvée d'Oscar (brewed at Proef) These beers are produced in Belgian Flanders by a Scottish brewer based in Picardy, northern France, and are decidedly international at heart. Craig Allan trained in Edinburgh but found the British brewing scene hidebound by tradition. [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 7.2% Redwillow Ageless Double IPA Recent years have seen the emergence of a number of new, small British breweries that place themselves firmly in the international craft beer movement rather than the native real ale tradition. I hesitate to use the label “craft beer” as in my view even [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 8.5% Brasserie du Pays Flamand Anosteké Brune Imperial Smout In November 2011 I was in Lille for a few days, checking out among other things the excellent beer range at the Abbaye des Saveurs shop in Vieux-Lille which will shortly feature in a Beer Sellers piece here. It was an [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 7.3% Fuller's head brewer John Keeling with Marble Old Manchester. "Old and from Manchester." Pic: Fuller's Collaboration beers are especially popular among the new generation of craft brewers, often across national boundaries, and have produced some fascinating results. But here’s one that crosses the generations, bringing together one of Britain’s [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 5% Moonlight Death & Taxes Black Beer The name refers to the old proverb about certainty, attributed among many others to Benjamin Franklin. And it’s a quality that I’ve come to associate over the past few years with Moonlight beers – the certainty that the beer I’m about to [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.9% Julio Moncada at the London Brewers Showcase, October 2011 2011 was an extraordinary year for brewing in London. When I sent the final text of London’s Best Beer, Bars and Pubs off to CAMRA Books in early March, I felt the capital had done well to nurture six new [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 3.7% Mighty Oak Oscar Wilde This beer won Champion Beer of Britain (CBoB) at the Great British Beer Festival in August 2011, much to the consternation of some craft beer aficianados who saw this as further evidence of CAMRA conservatism and fustiness – with all those exciting new high gravity [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 10.1% The Kernel Brewery Beers from the Kernel, surely London’s second world class brewery, loomed large in my drinking in 2011. I admit I was a bit late in catching up on them – my first encounter was in January when I visited the brewery as research for my London [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 13% Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout I’ve been a fan of Chicago’s Goose Island beers ever since receiving some review samples of their pale ales when they were first imported to the UK (see Goose Island Honker’s Ale), and their pioneering wood matured beer Bourbon County Stout is [...] |
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