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Sharp’s Massive Ale

Featured in BEER November 2009 as a strong ale for winter drinking. For more beers in this piece, see previous post.

ABV: 10%
Origin: Rock, Cornwall
Website: www.sharpsbrewery.co.uk

Sharp's Brewery

Massive Ale is one of Sharp’s brewer Stuart Howe’s bottled specialities, an exciting sideline with a distinct Belgian influence for one of the more successful new cask producers. It’s a big [...]

Otley O-Garden and O8

First published in BEER March 2008 as part of a piece about Welsh beers.
Beer sellers: Meadow Farm Shop

ABV:  4.8 and 8 per cent
Origin: Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Website www.otleybrewing.co.uk

Otley O-Garden

Last month’s BEER previewed CAMRA’s Members’ Weekend in Cardiff by featuring Welsh beer and breweries, with my colleague Brian Glover reporting Wales is “fermenting furiously again, with [...]

JW Lees Harvest Ale

First published in BEER December 2007 as part of a piece about strong beers for the festive season. For more strong festive beers see previous post.

ABV:  11.5 per cent
Origin: Middleton Junction, Manchester, England
Website www.jwlees.co.uk

JW Lees Harvest Ale

The term “vintage”, which strictly speaking refers to the grape harvest, is often misapplied to beer – unlike wine, [...]

O’Hanlon’s Thomas Hardy’s Ale

First published in BEER December 2007 as part of a piece about strong beers for the festive season.

ABV:  11.7 per cent
Origin: Whimple, Devon, England
Website www.ohanlons.co.uk 

O'Hanlon's Thomas Hardy's Ale

When it comes to the festive season, I’m something of a bah humbug type by nature, but one of the things I do look forward to is [...]

Chiltern Bodgers Barley Wine

First published in BEER December 2006 as part of a page about strong beers. See previous post for more strong beers.

ABV: 8.5 per cent
Origin: Terrick, Buckinghamshire, England
Website: www.chilternbrewery.co.uk

Chiltern Bodgers Barley Wine

Launched in 1980 and still run by the Jenkinson family, the Chiltern Brewery near Aylesbury is a rare survivor from the first wave of new [...]

Traquair House Ale 1000th Brew 2001

Top Tastings 2009

ABV: 10%
Origin: Innerleithen, Scottish Borders, Scotland
Website: www.traquair.co.uk

Traquair House by James McIntosh Patrick, National Galleries of Scotland

Traquair House is the oldest inhabited stately home in Scotland and a new wave craft brewer ahead of its time. In 1965, several years before the launch of CAMRA, the rediscovery of Britain’s diverse brewing heritage and the subsequent rise [...]

Thornbridge Alliance Strong Ale Reserve 2007

Top Tastings 2009

ABV: 11%
Origin: Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire, England
Website: www.thornbridgebrewery.co.uk

Thornbridge is currently one of the most exciting and innovative breweries in Britain, complimenting a range of high quality cask ales with a selection of bottled specialities including fine India Pale Ales and Imperial Stouts and the unclassifiable dark honey beer Bracia. It arose from a collaboration with Sheffield’s Kelham [...]

Orkney Dark Island Reserve

Beer sellers: Scottish Real Ale Shop
Top Tastings 2009 (bottled 2007), Top Tastings 2011 (draught 2010)

ABV: 10%
Origin: Quoyloo, Orkney, Scotland
Website: www.orkneybrewery.co.uk

Orkney Dark Island Reserve

One of Britain’s northernmost breweries and one of Scotland’s strong collection of distinctive micros, Orkney was founded in a derelict schoolhouse by an Englishman in 1988. It later formed a partnership with the [...]

Woodforde's Headcracker

Originally published in What’s Brewing April 2003

Origin: Woodbastwick, Norfolk, England
ABV: 7 per cent
Buy from Specialist stockists, direct from the brewery (tel 01603 722218, www.woodfordes.co.uk)

Woodfordes Headcracker

East Anglia provides rich pickings for lovers of good speciality ales: the current Good Beer Guide lists 15 independent brewers in Suffolk and 11 in Norfolk, including a good number of [...]


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