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Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.9% Julio Moncada at the London Brewers Showcase, October 2011 2011 was an extraordinary year for brewing in London. When I sent the final text of London’s Best Beer, Bars and Pubs off to CAMRA Books in early March, I felt the capital had done well to nurture six new [...] London Beer Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.5%, 4.7% (5% in bottle) and 4.2% Sambrook's Junction The departure of Young’s from London in 2006 helped draw Duncan Sambrook’s attention to the lack of [...] London beer tastings 2011. For more Brodie’s beers and more background to the brewery, see previous post. ABV: 3.1%, 3.9% and 5.7% Brodie's Citra Like the brewery’s Amarilla, Citra is a popular, refreshing and approachable beer featuring an especially fragrant new US hop. A cask sample I tasted at the (sadly no longer [...] Beer sellers: Westholme Store ABV: 4.2% Appleford Brewery Co Based on a farm in rural Oxfordshire at Brightwell-cum-Sotwell near Wallingford, Appleford was founded in 2006 by Andrew Torrance, formerly an accountant at the Morland brewery which was bought and closed by Greene King. Beers tend to be sold locally. The bottle conditioned version of the [...] Beer sellers: Meadow Farm Shop ABV: 4.5%, 4.8% and 58% Kingstone Classic Bitter I tasted several bottle conditioned Kingstone beers during a visit to the adjoining Meadow Farm Shop in the breathtakingly beautiful Wye Valley for a Beers of the World piece in 2008. There’s more background to the brewery in my review of Kingstone [...] Timothy Taylor Landlord Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 4.1% Established in 1858, Timothy Taylor had long enjoyed the respect of discerning beer drinkers as one of the best of the surviving regional independents when in 2003 a certain musician by the name of Madonna Ciccone told TV interviewer Jonathan Ross she regularly enjoyed a [...] ABV: 4% This is an expanded review of a beer that featured as a fruit beer on the bottled beer review page in the August 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is also available in selected newsagents. Tryst Blàthan Hops [...] Great British Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 3.7% Rebellion IPA Rebellion, founded in 1993 and now a decently sized and highly respected micro, has kept the flag flying for brewing in the Thamesside town of Marlow since Whitbread closed the historic Wethereds brewery –its founders originally hoped it could be incorporated in the redevelopment of [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was first published on facebook January 2009. ABV: 4.4% Brains Top Notch Old established Cardiff family brewer Brains offers several cask classics such as SA and Brains Dark but this is a relatively new addition to the range that deserves better exposure. Originally a festival special selected following a [...] Featured in BEER August 2009 as a selection from the latest Good Bottled Beer Guide. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 4.4% Outstanding Brewery The immodestly named Outstanding Brewery in Bury, Greater Manchester, was launched only in 2008, although the involvement of one of Britain’s leading suppliers of microbrewing kit, David Porter, shows [...] |
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