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Beer sellers: Bierkraft ABV: 6% (not officially declared) 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 [...] Great British Beer Festival 2011 ABV: 5.8% 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 [...] Beer sellers: Cerveteca ABV: 6% 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 [...] 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 [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 5.8% The Duck-Rabbit Schwarzbier (black lager) Only a philosopher could think to call a brewery Duck-Rabbit, after the ambiguous drawing seen as either a duck or a rabbit discussed in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophische Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations, 1953). And sure enough founder Paul Philippon was an academic and Wittgenstein specialist [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 5.3% Dry Dock Brewing Kevin DeLange already owned a small homebrew store when in 2005 he decided to add a microbrewery with its own tiny taproom. Such was the success of this move that in 2009 the taproom and brewery relocated to a bigger space a few doors down on [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 10.5% Avery Maharaja Imperial India Pale Ale Regularly topping polls of the world’s best beers, this super-hopped pale ale comes from a Colorado brewery founded by home brewer Adam Avery in 1993, since much expanded and greatly admired for its cutting edge repertoire of extreme hop beers and barrel aged [...] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 8.2% Tröegs Troegenator Doublebock Beer Most of the more celebrated American craft brews are warm fermented ales, but here’s an East Coast microbrewer making a very convincing fist of an original European extreme lager style, the Doppelbock. The name of the brewery exemplifies the delightfully dilettantish multiculturalism [...] |
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