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Arbor Ales Brigstow Bitter. Pic: Wonker – Creative Commons Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 4.3% Origin: Bristol, England Website: arborales.co.uk Bristol is one of Britain’s more exciting beer cities at the moment, with some outstanding pubs, a small but growing cluster of decent small breweries and a flourishing homebrew scene. Besides Bath Ales, actually […] Adnams Southwold Bitter in minicasks. Pic: Adnams. Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 3.7% Origin: Southwold, Suffolk, England Website: adnams.co.uk I’ve long regarded Adnams Southwold Bitter as one of the benchmark examples of a traditional English cask bitter, an outstanding demonstration of the genius of the best old estabished British breweries for achieving depth and […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 ABV: 7% Origin: Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland Website: www.williamsbrosbrew.com Williams Brothers Brewery Alloa is the largest town in Clackmannanshire, central Scotland – once the smallest Scottish county in the days when the country still had them. A hundred years ago the town ranked alongside Burton upon Trent, Edinburgh, London […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 ABV: 7.4%, 9.2% and 10.5% Origin: Huddersfield, Kirklees, England Website: www.magicrockbrewing.com Welcome to the beer circus: poster at Magic Rock brewery, Huddersfield. The last few years have seen not just the relentless growth of microbrewing in the UK but also the emergence of new approaches that challenge the […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 6.8% Origin: Manchester, England Website: www.marblebeers.co.uk Marble/Emelisse Earl Grey IPA. Pic: The Ormskirk Baron, www.theormskirkbaron.com. A serious looking 750ml bottle from Manchester’s marvellous Marble brewery can usually be relied upon to contain something at least interesting, but they’ve excelled themselves with Marble Earl […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 ABV: 6.1% Origin: Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England Website: www.roosters.co.uk Roosters Brewery Long before many of the current crop of in-yer-face British “craft” brewers had even reached legal drinking age, Roosters Brewery was challenging a market drenched in traditional brown bitters with the complex and distinctive aromas and flavours […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 ABV: 3.8% and 4.4% Origin: Leeds, England Website: www.leedsbrewery.co.uk Leeds Pale The closure and demolition of an historic brewery is always a loss in economic and heritage terms and, depending on how embedded it was in the life of its surroundings, a potential loss to local culture too. […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 Top Tastings 2012 (Siberia) ABV: 3.5% and 5.9% Origin: Ilkley, Bradford, England Website: www.ilkleybrewery.co.uk Ilkley Mary Jane It’s a generational thing, not a Yorkshire thing. When I heard that the Ilkley brewery’s flagship cask ale goes by the name of Mary Jane, it made perfect sense. The […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 10% Origin: Bedford, Bedfordshire, England Website: www.wellsandyoungs.co.uk Wells & Young's Courage Imperial Russian Stout 2011 Excitement rippled through the beer world in Autumn 2011 as one of Britain’s most historic beer brands made an unexpected return from the dead. Courage Imperial Russian Stout can trace its lineage back to […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 7.2% Origin: Macclesfield, Cheshire East, England Website: redwillowbrewery.com 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 […] |
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