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Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 7.3% Fuller's head brewer John Keeling with Marble Old Manchester. "Old and from Manchester." Pic: Fuller's Collaboration beers are especially popular among the new generation of craft brewers, often across national boundaries, and have produced some fascinating results. But here’s one that crosses the generations, bringing together one of Britain’s [...] Great British Beer Festival 2011 ABV: 9% Brewer's Reserve No 3 maturing in whisky barrels in a spare corner of the Fuller's brewery, London W4, January 2011 I make no apologies for choosing a release of Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve as one of my GBBF beer picks for the second year running [...] Beer sellers: Cerveteca ABV: 7.5% Coopers Extra Strong Vintage Ale The historic Coopers brewery near Adelaide is known as the hypertraditional custodian of the unique style of Sparkling Ale, as well as several other old established beers. But in 1998 head brewer Tim Cooper decided to create something new, coming up with this [...] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011 ABV: 8.2% Innis & Gunn Oak Aged Beer Scotland’s Innis & Gunn specialises in oak ageing beer – “like no other beer”, they’ve been known to claim rather inaccurately, although their take on the process is unusual. It came about when Dougal Sharp, then brewer at Caledonian, was asked to create [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 9% Samuel Smith Yorkshire Stingo An extended review of a beer featured as a strong and special beer on the bottled beer review page in the November 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is additionally available in selected [...] Great British Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 7.7% Fuller's Brewer's Reserve No 2 Limited Edition Oak Aged Ale The Brewer’s Reserve series is Fuller’s head brewer John Keeling’s limited edition of wood aged beers, starting with a Glenmorangie whisky cask version in 2008. The second edition uses the same beer recipe but matured for a year [...] First published in BEER March 2008 as part of a piece about Welsh beers. For more Welsh beers see previous post. ABV: 3.9 and 5.5 per cent Bragdy Ffos y Ffin Dairy farmer Glyn Lenton took over Ffos y Ffin farm outside Capel Dewi in rural Carmathenshire in 1990. Some years later he [...] First published in BEER November 2007 as part of a piece about beers from Booths supermarkets. More Booths beers in previous post. ABV: 7.2 per cent Wychwood Brakspear Triple Like Young’s, Brakspear is another revered Thames-side name now achieving good results at a new location. Most readers will be familiar with the story of how [...] ABV: 9% A shorter version was originally published in BEER November 2008. For more smoky beers see previous post. Durham Brewery Also amber (like St Austell Admiral’s Ale — see previous post) but considerably stronger is Durham Bede’s Chalice (9 per cent) one of several fine strong ales perfect for winter drinking from a [...] Note this post has been superceded. It has been left here for archival reasons. Read a more complete and up-to-date post about this beer. Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 8% Note: tasting notes on further vintages can be found after the main article. Fuller's Vintage Ale 1999 My favourite beer event of 2009 [...] |
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