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Great British Beer Festival 2011 ABV: 4.5% Little Valley Organic Hebden's Wheat My day of sampling British cask beers at this year’s Great British Beer Festival turned out to be rather lacklustre, but one pleasant surprise was this tasty organic Belgian-style wheat beer from the South Pennines. The brewery also produces a [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 4.7% Duvel Moortgat Vedett Extra White Previously Duvel Moortgat’s wheat beer offering was Steendonk, produced in partnership with Palm, but the partnership ended this year and this beer, DM’s very own replacement, came as a pleasantly good surprise. It’s cloudy and [...] First published November 2007 as part of a piece about beers stocked by Booths supermarkets. ABV: 6.8 per cent Sharp's Chalky's Bite If you’re a speciality bottled beer enthusiast, the chances are you’ll have heard of Booths Supermarkets even if you live a long way outside its Lancashire heartland. Under enthusiastic and knowledgeable beer [...] Great British Beer Festival Real Ale in a Bottle Bar 2006; also featured as an ale to win lager drinkers in BEER February 2009. NOTE: This beer was originally briefly reviewed under an earlier name, Double Champion. ABV: 4% O'Hanlon's Goldblade This is one of several bottle conditioned offerings from this excellent micro in [...] ABV: 4.2% CAMRA North London tasting February 2010 Hop Back Crop Circle Hop Back have grown into one of the major British craft brewers with an innovative but cannily targeted range of speciality ales led by the trendsetting Summer Lightning, and a strategy that pursues the takeout trade through reliable bottle conditioned supplies to [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing September 2004 Origin: St Austell, Cornwall, England St Austell Clouded Yellow Clouded Yellow from St Austell, Cornwall’s only surviving traditional family brewery, must have one of Britain’s most evocative beer names. The clouded yellow is a butterfly, Colias Croceus, originating “in Europe and [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing September 2002 Origin: Hoegaarden, Brabant, Belgium Hoegaarden Wit Unfiltered ‘white’ beers were once the local speciality of the northeast corner of Brabant. Brewers here used unmalted wheat, giving a very fruity, phenolic and distinctively wheaty flavour, and spiced their beers with coriander and curaçao orange peel, as [...] |
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