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First published November 2007 as part of a piece about beers stocked by Booths supermarkets. ABV: 6.8 per cent Sharp's Chalky's Bite If you’re a speciality bottled beer enthusiast, the chances are you’ll have heard of Booths Supermarkets even if you live a long way outside its Lancashire heartland. Under enthusiastic and knowledgeable beer [...] ABV: 4% Teignworthy Reel Ale This beer featured as a British Real Ale in a Bottle on the bottled beer review page in the May 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 newsagents. For more [...] Great British Beer Festival Real Ale in a Bottle Bar 2006 ABV: 4.5% RCH Old Slug Porter Dark Ale RCH, a veteran among British micros of bottle conditioned ales, originated behind the Royal Clarence Hotel at Burnham-on-Sea in 1983, thus its acronymic title, but moved to a former cider mill in Weston a decade [...] Great British Beer Festival Real Ale in a Bottle Bar 2006 ABV: 5.5% St Austell Proper Job This Cornish interpretation of an old-fashioned IPA is a little light in alcohol to be true to the style, but very approachable and tasty. Dedicated to the 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment, who fought in Indian Mutiny, it’s made [...] Great British Beer Festival Real Ale in a Bottle Bar 2006; also featured as an ale to win lager drinkers in BEER February 2009. NOTE: This beer was originally briefly reviewed under an earlier name, Double Champion. ABV: 4% O'Hanlon's Goldblade This is one of several bottle conditioned offerings from this excellent micro in [...] ABV: 6% and 7% Originally published in BEER, February 2007 CAMRA North London tasting February 2010 (IPA only) Downton Chimera Dark Delight and India Pale Ale As sharp-eyed readers will have noticed, this page has for some time carried an open invitation for beer suggestions by email, all of which are gratefully received. Both breweries [...] ABV: 4.8% Originally published in BEER October 2007 O'Hanlon's Original Port Stout Lovers of the darker side of brewing had cause to smile at the results of this year’s Champion Beer of Britain competition – not only did a dark mild emerge as supreme champion among the cask beers, but three of the four [...] ABV: 5% A shorter version was originally published in BEER November 2008. For more smoky beers see previous post. See also Top Tastings 2008. CAMRA North London tasting February 2010 St Austell Admiral's Ale For a more subtle whiff of the bonfire (than Heller Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Weizen – see above), alongside generous and [...] ABV: 5.3% Originally published in BEER May 2007. For more bottled milds see previous post Teignworthy Martha's Mild Tucker’s Maltings of Newton Abbot is one of Britain’s few surviving specialist maltings. The building is now a major tourist attraction as well as a working maltings, and hosts both its own beer shop and [...] ABV: 4.2% CAMRA North London tasting February 2010 Hop Back Crop Circle Hop Back have grown into one of the major British craft brewers with an innovative but cannily targeted range of speciality ales led by the trendsetting Summer Lightning, and a strategy that pursues the takeout trade through reliable bottle conditioned supplies to [...] |
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