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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 [...] An extended review of a beer featured as a new real ale in a bottle on the bottled beer review page in the February 2011 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is additionally available in selected newsagents. ABV: 5.1% and 7.7% Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 4.5% Nethergate Augustinian Brewer Ian Hornsey, a former microbiologist, has been turning out excellent beers on a commercial scale since 1986, and has worked from his current site since 2005. He’s particularly renowned for reviving the use of herbs in brewing and contributing to [...] Featured as a selection from the new Good Bottled Beer Guide in BEER August 2009. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 4.8% Old Chimneys Brewery Former Greene King, Vaux and Broughton brewer Dr Alan Thomson has consistently produced small runs of innovative beers from his Suffolk micro and Old Amber is no [...] Top Tastings 2010 (Strong Suffolk) ABV: 6%, 6.5% and 6% Greene King Suffolk Springer These three beers offer currently the only options for public access to Greene King’s legendary Old 5X, Britain’s only surviving wood aged beer made on a commercial scale. GK have long followed a policy of selling the beer, [...] First published in BEER July 2008 as part of a piece on beers recently converted to bottle conditioning. Young’s Bitter also included in Top Tastings 2008. ABV: 4.5 and 4.8 per cent Wells and Young's Young's Bitter When you consider how perilously close British bottle conditioned beer was to extinction a couple of decades or [...] First published in BEER May 2008 as part of a piece about Norfolk milds. More Norfolk milds in previous post. ABV: 3.9 per cent Fox Nina's Mild A more traditional example of vertical integration [than with Uncle Stuart's in the previous post] can be found at Heacham, a village on the Wash in northwest Norfolk [...] |
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