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ABV: 4.5, 6.4 and 7.2% ThirstBear Brewing Company and Spanish Cuisine, San Francisco Northern California’s Bay Area is indisputably the birthplace of the modern US craft brewing movement, whether you date it from Fritz Maytag buying and reviving San Francisco’s historic Anchor brewery in 1965 or Jack McAuliffe founding the first US [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 5% 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 [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 8.5% 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 [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 10% 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 [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 9.2% Green Flash Le Freak Founded in 2002 by former pub owners Mike and Lisa Hinkley near San Diego, joined shortly afterwards by head brewer Chuck Silva, Green Flash has established itself as a favoured source of innovative and sometimes extreme beers with the West Coast’s characteristically liberal use of [...] Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7.7% Stone Ruination IPA. With lots of hops. Stone is one of the most prominent and successful of new generation Californian micros, thanks to the quality of its beers and to a risky and slightly macho but ultimately rather savvy marketing policy that makes a virtue of [...] Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7.7% Russian River Damnation Golden Ale This was the first Belgian-inspired bottle conditioned beer I tried from one of California’s leading micros, a strong golden ale broadly in the style of Duvel that’s claimed three GABF medals so far. My sample came from Batch 028, [...] Beer sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 6.7% Port The Lost Abbey Red Barn Ale This is one of Port’s Lost Abbey range of Belgian-style ales, though it began life as a plain Port beer, SPF45. Red Barn pays tribute to a rustic saison, though with an emphasis on spicing: ginger, orange [...] Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 9% North Coast Old Rasputin Imperial Russian Stout “Сердечный друг не родится вдруг,” reads the Russian inscription on the label of this multi-award winning Imperial Stout named after the notorious associate of the last Russian tsarina — “A dear friend is not to be found [...] Beer sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7% Bear Republic Racer 5 India Pale Ale The fame of Northern California’s Sonoma County is now second only to neighbouring Napa among wine lovers, but the area round Healdsburg was once hop growing country, a fact which father and son Richard R & Richard G Norgrove [...] |
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