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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 […] 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 […] 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, […] Top Tastings 2011, Beer sellers: The Beermongers 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 […] Top Tastings 2011, Beer sellers: The Beermongers 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 […] 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 — […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] |
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