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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: 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 [...] 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 [...] London Beer Tastings 2011. ABV: 7.8% and 5.6% Evin O'Riordan of The Kernel brewery, London SE1 Evin O’Riordan, founder and head brewer at the Kernel brewery in Bermondsey, is not [...] London Beer Tastings 2011. ABV: 5.3% Fuller's Bengal Lancer Bengal Lancer was launched in 2009 as Fuller’s contribution to the growing range of India Pale Ales, as well as the [...] London beer tastings 2011 ABV: 4.5% and 5% 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 so far, their other regular beers, though straightforward, [...] 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% 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 sample I tasted at the (sadly no longer [...] |
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