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Brodie’s Passion, Red and Superior London Porter (strong version)

London beer tastings 2011.
For more Brodie’s beers , see previous post. For background to these tastings see the review of Amarilla.
This beer  featured in BEER August 2011 as part of a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London. Read about more bottled London beers.

ABV: 3.8%, 4.3% and 10%
Origin: Leyton, London E10, England
Website: brodiesbeers.co.uk

King William IV [...]

Brodie’s Amarilla, Black IPA and Californian

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Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve No 3

Great British Beer Festival 2011
London beer tastings 2011

ABV: 9%
Origin: London W4, England
Website: www.fullers.co.uk

Brewer's Reserve No 3 maturing in whisky barrels in a spare corner of the Fuller's brewery, London W4, January 2011

I make no apologies for choosing a release of Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve as one of my GBBF beer picks for the second year running [...]

Meantime Raspberry Grand Cru

ABV: 6.5%
Origin: London SE7, England
Website: www.meantimebrewing.com

Meantime Raspberry Grand Cru

This is an expanded review of a beer that featured as a fruit beer on the bottled beer review page in the August 2010 issue of

BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is also available in selected [...]

Fuller’s Brewers’s Reserve No 2

Great British Beer Festival 2010

ABV: 7.7%
Origin: London W4, England
Website: www.fullers.co.uk

Fuller's Brewer's Reserve No 2 Limited Edition Oak Aged Ale

The Brewer’s Reserve series is Fuller’s head brewer John Keeling’s limited edition of wood aged beers, starting with a Glenmorangie whisky cask version in 2008. The second edition uses the same beer recipe but matured for a year [...]

Camden Town Helles

Great British Beer Festival 2010
London Beer Tastings 2011: Revised October 2011.
Hells Lager was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.

ABV: 4.8%
Origin: London NW5, England
Website: http://www.camdentownbrewery.com/

Camden Town Brewery

Australian-born Jasper Cuppaidge owns the Horseshoe pub in Hampstead, and in 2006 installed a tiny [...]

Brodie's Summer Stout

Great British Beer Festival 2010

ABV: 2.8%
Origin: London E10, England
Website: www.brodiesbeers.co.uk

Brodie’s, the in house brewery at the William IV pub in east London, continues to impress with an imaginative range of beers including plenty of the dark stff. Served from cask stillage at the British Guild of Beer Writers’ pre-GBBF reception at Brew Wharf in Borough, this [...]

Pitfield's 1896 XXXX Stock Ale

This beer featured in BEER November 2009 in a piece about strong ales for winter. 

ABV: 10%
Origin: North Weald, Essex, England
Website: www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk

Pitfield's 1896 XXXX Stock Ale

Pitfield Brewery is one of the pioneers of the British microbrewing revival, originally set up in 1981 in Pitfield Street, Hoxton, in the days long before the area became associated with edgy [...]

Meantime Pale Ale, London Porter and India Pale Ale

First published in BEER April 2008 as part of a piece on beer in Sainsbury’s.

ABV:  4.7, 6.5 and 7.5 per cent
Origin: Charlton, London, England
Website www.meantimebrewing.com

Meantime Pale Ale

When Heriot-Watt and Weihenstephan-trained brewer Alastair Hook set up on his own in an industrial unit a stone’s throw from the Thames Barrier in 2000, he chose to follow [...]

Sambrook's Wandle

London Beer Tastings 2011, London Drinker Beer Festival March 2010

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 Rulles JeanChris Numéro 1.

ABV: 4.2%
Origin: London SW11, England
Website: www.sambrooksbrewery.co.uk

Sambrook's Wandle

JeanChris No 1(reviewed in the previous post) [...]


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