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Moonlight Death & Taxes

Top Tastings 2011

ABV: 5%
Origin: Santa Rosa, California, USA
Website: www.moonlightbrewing.com

Moonlight Death & Taxes Black Beer

The name refers to the old proverb about certainty, attributed among many others to Benjamin Franklin. And it’s a quality that I’ve come to associate over the past few years with Moonlight beers – the certainty that the beer I’m about to [...]

Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee Stout 2010

Top Tastings 2011

ABV: 13%
Origin: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Website: www.gooseisland.com

Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout

I’ve been a fan of Chicago’s Goose Island beers ever since receiving some review samples of their pale ales when they were first imported to the UK (see Goose Island Honker’s Ale), and their pioneering wood matured beer Bourbon County Stout is [...]

Bruery Saison Rue

Top Tastings 2011

ABV: 8.5%
Origin: Placentia, California, USA
Website: www.thebruery.com

The Bruery Saison Rue

The Bruery gets its name from a pun on the family name of founder Patrick Rue, and was first employed to designate his home brewing kit during his days as a law student. It was ported over when, having decided a career in brewing might [...]

Full Sail Session Lager

Top Tastings 2011

ABV: 5.1%
Origin: Hood River, Oregon, USA
Website: www.fullsailbrewing.com

Full Sail Session Lager

While beer geeks are bedazzled by the extremities of American brewing, it’s important to remember that the pheonomenal growth of the craft beer sector in the USA is mainly based not on hop bombs and wood aged weirdness but on much more everyday brews [...]

Bend Hop-Head Imperial India Pale Ale

Top Tastings 2011

ABV: 9%
Origin: Bend, Oregon, USA
Website: www.bendbrewingco.com

Bend Hop-Head Imperial India Pale Ale

My trip to one of the US’s top craft beer cities, Portland, Oregon, in Autumn 2011 could easily have accounted for half my Top Tastings of the year, but to spread things out a bit I’ve limited myself to a few outstanding and [...]

Victory Prima Pils

Beer sellers: Bierkraft

ABV: 5.3%
Origin: Downington, Pennsylvania, USA
Website: www.victorybeer.com

Victory Prima Pils

Victory founders Bill Covaleski and Ron Barchet are two old school friends that became home brewers and later moved into brewing professionally at pioneer craft brewers like the Baltimore Brewing Company and Old Dominion. Both trained in Germany — Ron at world renowned Weihenstephan –  so [...]

Keegan Mother’s Milk

Beer sellers: Bierkraft

ABV: 6% (not officially declared)
Origin: Kingston, New York, USA
Website: www.keeganales.com

Keegan Mother's Milk

Located in a building from the early 1800s in the former capital of New York state, the Keegan Ales plant previously enjoyed a life as the Woodstock brewery. This closed in 2001 and was simply abandoned in situ, and in 2003 Tommy [...]

Devils Backbone Barclay’s London Dark Lager

Great British Beer Festival 2011

ABV: 5.8%
Origin: Roseland, Virginia, USA
Website: www.dbbrewingcompany.com

Devils Backbone Brewing Company

Many people assume UK lager is a relatively recent phenomenon, dating from the 1960s when the emerging big brewing groups first made a concerted effort to market a handful of rather undistinguished national brands. In fact British attempts to brew and sell cold [...]

Left Hand Milk Stout

Beer sellers: Cerveteca

ABV: 6%
Origin: Longmont, Colorado, USA
Website: www.lefthandbrewing.com

Left Hand Milk Stout

A typical US craft brewing success story in one of North America’s fine beer heartlands, Colorado, Left Hand first brewed commercially in 1994, on the initiative of home brewer Dick Doore and his old friend Eric Wallace. Its original name was Indian Peaks after a [...]

Port Hop-15

Top Tastings 2010

ABV: 10%
Origin: San Marcos, California, USA
Website: www.portbrewing.com

Port Hop-15

I was delighted to discover bomber bottles of this classic US imperial India pale ale on sale in outstanding London beer seller Kris Wines. The name refers to its origin as a celebration ale for the 15th anniversary of the brewery’s original location at the Pizza Port restaurant in [...]


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