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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: 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: 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 [...] Box Steam Funnel Blower Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.5% Family-owned Box Steam, founded in 2004 near Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s celebrated Great Western Railway tunnel under Box Hill in rural Wiltshire, is a brewery well worth keeping an eye on. I bumped into them in Bristol at a regional heat of [...] London Beer Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.5%, 4.7% (5% in bottle) and 4.2% Sambrook's Junction The departure of Young’s from London in 2006 helped draw Duncan Sambrook’s attention to the lack of [...] London Beer Tastings 2011 ABV: 3% and 6.1% Redemption Trinity Redemption, launched early in 2010, now seems like something of a veteran among the new wave of London brewers. Impressive from the start, it’s rapidly settled down into a consistently performing and reliable source of decent beer, pitched somewhere in between the avowedly [...] London Beer Tastings 2011. For more background on the brewery, see previous post. ABV: 6.8%, 7.1% and 5.5% 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, matching the standards set by the US brewers [...] |
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