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London Beer Tastings 2011. For more background on the brewery, see previous post.
ABV: 6.8%, 7.1% and 5.5%
Origin: Bermondsey, London SE1, England
Website: www.thekernelbrewery.com
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.
Export Stout was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.
ABV: 7.8% and 5.6%
Origin: Bermondsey, London SE1, England
Website: www.thekernelbrewery.com
Evin O'Riordan of The Kernel brewery, London SE1
Evin O’Riordan, founder and head brewer at the Kernel brewery in Bermondsey, is not [...]
Top Tastings 2009 / CAMRA North London Tasting 2010 / London beer tastings 2011 / Top Tastings 2011 (2001 vintage)
ABV: 8.5%
Origin: Chiswick, London W6, England
Website: www.fullers.co.uk
A run of Fuller's Vintage Ale poses for the camera, Hock Cellar, Fuller's Brewery, London W6, October 2011
Until the recent resurgence that took everyone by surprise, craft brewing in London [...]
London Beer Tastings 2011.
This beer was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.
ABV: 5.3%
Origin: Chiswick, London W5, England
Website: www.fullers.co.uk
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
For more background on the brewery see Camden Town Hells Lager
ABV: 4.5% and 5%
Origin: Kentish Town, London NW5, England
Website: www.camdentownbrewery.com
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%
Origin: Leyton, London E10, England
Website: brodiesbeers.co.uk
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 [...]
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 [...]
Beer sellers: Westholme Store
ABV: 4.2%
Origin: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England
Website: www.applefordbrewery.co.uk
Appleford Brewery Co
Based on a farm in rural Oxfordshire at Brightwell-cum-Sotwell near Wallingford, Appleford was founded in 2006 by Andrew Torrance, formerly an accountant at the Morland brewery which was bought and closed by Greene King. Beers tend to be sold locally.
The bottle conditioned version of the [...]
Beer sellers: Westholme Store
ABV: 5%
Origin: Melmerby, North Yorkshire, England
Website: www.hambletonales.co.uk
Hambleton Nightmare Stout
Nick Stafford’s Hambleton brewery is one of the most technically accomplished of British micros — and its founder is one of the more prominent characters on the beer scene. As commercial director of small brewers’ organisation SIBA, among other achievements he established the Direct [...]
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Biercultuur met Des de Moor.
Promotie van een internationale biercultuur die bieren van kwaliteit, voortreffelijkheid en streekkarakter erkent en viert, die met zorg en passie zijn gebrouwen.
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