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Great British Beer Festival 2011 ABV: 5.8% 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 British attempts to brew and sell cold [...] Beer sellers: Zlý Časy / Pivkupectví ABV: 4.2% Chodovar Zámecké Černé Incorporating ancient cellars cut into granite and completely dominating its small village home west of Plzeň, the Chodovar brewery traces its written records back to 1634, though much of today’s structure is the result of an 1862 rebuild. It’s host to [...] Beer sellers: Beers of Europe ABV: 4.7% Budějovický Budvar tmavý ležák / Dark Lager Alongside Plzeňský Prazdroj (Pilsner Urquell), Budvar was already a famous Czech name in international beer circles before the Velvet Revolution, thanks in part to the international currency of the term Budweiser — meaning ‘from Budweis’, the [...] Beer sellers: Landbierparadies, Nürnberg. ABV: 5.5% Brauerei Blauer Löwe Another of those Franconian brewpubs with a long, long history, Blauer Löwe (Blue Lion) opened in 1633 as one of several breweries in Höchstadt to replace the old town brewery, destroyed during the Swedish invasion of Bavaria in the Thirty Years War, only two [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5.1% Trunk Vierzehnheiligen Nothelfer Bier I tried this wonderful unpasteurised Dunkel fresh from its cask at the Pigs Ear festival. The brewery, in a rural setting behind a basilica in a Franconian village named for “the fourteen saints”, has a distant monastic tradition [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 4.9% West For four decades cask ale has been the focus of the British beer consumer movement, and the technical specifications for its production and dispense have become embedded in the ideology of beer appreciation as if they’re judgements of value and quality, with “lager” as their polar opposites. This was [...] |
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