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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 2008. A shorter version was first published on facebook January 2009. ABV: 3.9% Beckstones Black Gun Dog Freddy Mild Ale When this won gold in its class and silver overall at the 2008 Champion Beer of Britain you could hear people muttering “who?”. But it was well-deserved for this tiny brewery housed in a [...] Featured as a selection from the new Good Bottled Beer Guide in BEER August 2009. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 6% Acorn Gorlovka Imperial Stout Acorn brewery has its origins in the old Barnsley Brewery, well known for its Barnsley Bitter. When this went into liquidation, eventually merging with Blackpool Brewery, [...] Featured in BEER August 2009 as a selection from the latest Good Bottled Beer Guide. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 4.4% Outstanding Brewery The immodestly named Outstanding Brewery in Bury, Greater Manchester, was launched only in 2008, although the involvement of one of Britain’s leading suppliers of microbrewing kit, David Porter, shows [...] First published in BEER September 2007. Since then the brewery has taken over Cumbrian Legendary Ales at Hawkshead and relocated brewing to this site. ABV: 4.3 per cent Loweswater Grasmoor Dark Ale Another local CAMRA award-winning small pub brewery [in addition to Farmer's Ales, responsible for Golden Boar, reviewed in the previous post] is Loweswater, in the hamlet [...] 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: 5.2 per cent Three B's Shuttle Ale Based on an industrial estate at the edge of Blackburn, Three Bs was founded in 2001 by former home [...] |
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