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Knee Deep Simtra Triple India Pale Ale Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 11.3% Origin: Lincoln, California, USA Website: kneedeepbrewing.com I asked the staff of small but outstanding specialist drinks shop Healthy Spirits, in San Francisco’s Duboce Triangle, for a recommendation of a new West Coast IPA to try and was pointed to this example […] Jester King Le Petit Prince Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 2.9% Origin: Austin, Texas, USA Website: jesterkingbrewery.com It seems US craft beer drinkers, probably with some relief, are starting to realise there’s life below 5.5%. Session beer is one of the current buzz terms across the Atlantic, as brewers start to take up the […] FiftyFifty Eclipse Imperial Stout 2011, white wax version Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 9.5% Origin: Truckee, California, USA Website: www.fiftyfiftybrewing.com Craft brewers, particularly in the United States, are increasingly recognising the potential for “event beers” and limited editions in capturing the growing market of beer connoisseurs prepared to pay over the odds for something […] Deschutes / Hair of the Dog Conflux No 1 — Collage Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 11.6% Origin: Bend, Oregon, USA Website: www.deschutesbrewery.com, www.hairofthedog.com Two of the best known and highest achieving craft breweries in the general vicinity of Portland, Oregon, got together to produce this long anticipated collaboration beer. Over two years in […] Anchor Brewing Company, Mariposa Street, San Francisco, California 94107 Top Tastings 2012 (Porter) ABV: 6%, 5.6% and 5% Origin: San Francisco, California, USA Website: www.anchorbrewing.com Despite numerous visits to San Francisco in recent years I hadn’t yet got round to visiting the famous Anchor brewery – arguably the motherlode of the current craft […] ABV: 4.5, 6.4 and 7.2% Origin: San Francisco, California, USA Website: http://thirstybear.com 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 […] Beer sellers: Beermongers ABV: 5.4% Origin: Pacific City, Oregon, USA Website: http://pelicanbrewery.com Pelican Kiwanda Cream Ale US craft brewers, particularly West Coast ones, are known to beer fans in Europe primarily as producers of extreme beers – hyper-hopped, ultra gravity, wild fermented monsters that have preferably spent two years maturing in a bourbon […] Beer sellers: Beermongers ABV: 7.5% Origin: Hood River, Oregon, USA Website: http://farmhousebeer.com Logsdon Organic Farmhouse Brewery Dave Logsdon has more than an average brewer’s interest in yeast – he was a founder of renowned yeast culture supplier Wyeast, as well as being the original brewer at what’s now one of Oregon’s most successful […] Beer sellers: Beermongers ABV: 6.1% Origin: Ashland, Oregon, USA Website: www.calderabrewing.com Caldera IPA Of all the taboos that craft brewers in the United States have systematically busted, the notion of craft beer in a can is arguably one of the most challenging. It certainly was to me. I listened with some incredulity when […] |
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