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Great British Beer Festival 2011 ABV: 10.2% De Molen Hot & Spicy in its Bordeaux cask at the Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court, London August 2011 The big wooden barrels full of weird and wonderful beers that De Molen’s Menno Olivier brings to the Belgian/Dutch/Italian bar at the Great British Beer Festival every [...] Beer sellers: De Bierkoning ABV: 5% Scheldebrouwerij 't Schoenlappertje Scheldebrouwerij is that rare thing, a microbrewery that moved countries. Founded by home brewers Kees van Loenhout and Peter van der Eijnden in 1994, it was originally in Zeeuwse-Vlaanderen, a detached southern exclave of the Dutch province of Zeeland with [...] Beer sellers: De Bierkoning ABV: 5.8% De Molen 1914 Porter Another of the impressive range of porters and stouts to have emerged from under the “ark dove” windmill in Bodegraven, this limited edition beer was produced in 2008 by brewer Menno Olivier and beer historian Ron Pattinson, based on a Whitbread recipe from 1914 [...] Beer sellers: De Bierkoning ABV: 7% 't IJ Speciale Vlo Amsterdams Biobier From one of the Netherlands’ best established and most consistently good micros, this is a decidedly local beer, commissioned from ’t IJ on Amsterdam’s Funenkade by the Bierkoning beer shop by the Dam, not more than two kilometres away. The name Vlo [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 10% De Molen Hel en Verdoemenis 666 World renowned Dutch craft brewer Menno Olivier brews phenomenal beers in numerous styles, but perhaps his strongest suit is his imperial stouts, of which there are several, as well as variants within variants. ‘Hell and Damnation’ is one of them, featuring brown malts in [...] Beer sellers: Beers of Europe ABV: 6.5% Koningshoeven La Trappe Dubbel The only official Trappist brewery outside Belgium is operated by the secular Bavaria brewery in partnership with the brothers of the Abdij Onze Lieve Vrouw van Koningshoeven near Tilburg — for more background see the review of La Trappe Blonde. These days the monastery [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2008. ABV: 11% Molen de Arkduif, where Brouwerij de Molen is based. Photo: PH Louw, from Wikimedia Commons. Available from a huge claret cask at the Great British Beer Festival, this limited edition imperial porter is from one of Europe’s most innovative and consistently interesting [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5.3% Grolsch Premium Weizen They may have been bought up SAB-Miller but Grolsch are certainly keeping up the quality with this relatively new Bavarian-style wheat beer, which raised eyebrows by beating several German producers in blind tastings at the 2007 World Beer [...] Great British Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 3.5% Revelation Cat Whole Milk Mild This is a beer deserving of the description ‘eclectic’: a cross between two traditional and somewhat neglected English beer styles, mild and milk stout, commissioned by an Italian and brewed by a Dutchman. The idea was dreamed up by beer guru Alex [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 6% St Christoffel Christoffel Blond Another of the Netherlands’ most outstanding beers, this is the flagship brew of St Christoffel, founded by Leo Brand, scion of the Brand brewing dynasty, in the Dutch traditional brewing heartland [...] |
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