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ABV: 7.7% Thornbridge Halcyon Green Hopped IPA. Pic: Mark Dredge, www.pencilandspoon.com Peak District-based Thornbridge continues to demonstrate its world class credentials with its latest batch of special bottles. This limited edition of Halcyon, already an impressive India Pale Ale, was brewed during last year’s hop harvest and dosed with “massive amounts of freshly [...] Featured as a strong ale for winter in BEER November 2009. For more strong beers see previous post. ABV: 9% Thornbridge Bracia. Pic by Andy of beerreviews.co.uk, used by permission. Rising star of British craft breweries Thornbridge have an impressive range of unusual beers but perhaps this is the most remarkable one they’ve produced [...] Featured in BEER August 2009 as a selection from the latest Good Bottled Beer Guide. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 4.3% Spire 80 Shilling Ale Founded in 2006 by former Scots Guards musician David McLaren, and named for Chesterfield’s landmark twisted spire, this brewery has developed an interesting range of real ales in [...] This beer featured in BEER August 2009 as a selection from the new Good Bottled Beer Guide. ABV: 7% Hopshackle This is one of several beers I encountered during 2009 from Nigel Wright’s excellent Hopshackle Brewery: see my review of Historic Porter for more background. Double Momentum, an IPA so called as it is [...] First published in BEER June 2007 as part of a piece about Threshers off licence chain’s Local Ale scheme. For more Threshers Local Ales see previous post. ABV: 6.5 per cent Alcazar Bombay Castle IPA Brewing at the Fox and Crown pub since 1999, Alcazar takes its name from a Moorish-Spanish word meaning “the [...] A shorter version of this review was first published in BEER February 2010 as part of a piece about beers to taste with chocolate. For more beers tasted with chocolate, see previous post. ABV: 5% Hoggleys Solstice Stout More intense still [compared to the Elmtree mild reviewed in the previous post] is Hoggleys Solstice [...] First published in BEER October 2006 as part of a page marking the publication of the latest Good Bottled Beer Guide. For more beers featured on this page, see previous post. Jaipur was also featured in BEER August 2008 as part of a piece about beers for summer outdoor drinking and in the Beer Sellers piece on Westholme [...] Pré-ZBF Festival 2010 ABV: 8.8% Thornbridge Hall Thornbridge are emerging as a world class new brewery, offering a solid range of excellent everyday beers but also knowing how to push at the boundaries of style while still retaining good taste and balance. Witness the popularity of these wood-aged imperial stouts at [...] ABV: 4% Originally published in BEER May 2007. For more bottled milds see previous post. CAMRA North London tasting 2010 Hoggleys Mill Lane Mild Meanwhile if Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby (see previous post) remains impossible to obtain, there are an increasing number of other good bottle conditioned milds to console yourself with, including this one [...] |
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