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Beer sellers: Westholme Store ABV: 5% 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 [...] Great British Beer Festival 2011 ABV: 4.5% Little Valley Organic Hebden's Wheat My day of sampling British cask beers at this year’s Great British Beer Festival turned out to be rather lacklustre, but one pleasant surprise was this tasty organic Belgian-style wheat beer from the South Pennines. The brewery also produces a [...] Timothy Taylor Landlord Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 4.1% Established in 1858, Timothy Taylor had long enjoyed the respect of discerning beer drinkers as one of the best of the surviving regional independents when in 2003 a certain musician by the name of Madonna Ciccone told TV interviewer Jonathan Ross she regularly enjoyed a [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 9% Samuel Smith Yorkshire Stingo An extended review of a beer featured as a strong and special beer on the bottled beer review page in the November 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is additionally available in selected [...] First published in BEER February 2008. ABV: 3.9 per cent Little Valley Withens IPA As most readers will know, India Pale Ales were originally high gravity, generously hopped export products that later evolved into the more session-friendly draught interpretations still supplied by the likes of Caledonian and Greene King. It’s the original style [...] National Winter Ales Festival 2010 ABV: 6.5% E&S Elland 1872 Porter 2010′s overall Champion Beer of Britain is a previous runner-up, the highly deserving Elland 1872 porter, based on a recipe from the eponymous year. The brewery, in the small Calderdale town of Elland, originates from a merger of the Barge & Barrel brewpub and [...] National Winter Ales Festival 2010 ABV: 4.8% Leeds Midnight Bell Midnight Bell is a fine and rich dark mild named in honour of its brewery’s showcase pub in Leeds’ round foundry development. The brewery, opened in 2007, is currently the only independent in the city, with some well-made, imaginative and stylishly presented lines. Roast [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 5.6% Theakston Old Peculier Theakston Old Peculier is a stalwart icon of British real ale. Back in the 1970s it was the sort of beer enthusiasts discussed in hushed and reverential tones, with a pedigree dating back to the 1890s, appreciated not only for its quality but for its [...] Top Tastings 2009. ABV: 4.5% This tiny brewery was set up in 1992 in the Concertina Band Club at Mexborough, near Doncaster, essentially to brew beer for the club, though occasionally its beers seep out to beer festivals, especially since Roger Protz featured this particular beer in his 300 Beers To Try Before You [...] Originally published in BEER April 2006 ABV: 4 and 4.2 per cent Cropton Two Pints From Jacobite Ale [see previous post] to a brewery offering a beer called King Billy might once have seemed a jump too far, but anyone who appreciates great beer [...] |
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