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Originally published in BEER April 2006 ABV 4.5 and 7.5 per cent Hogs Back Wobble in a Bottle I’ve long regarded Hogs Back as one of Britain’s most outstanding bottled beer producers, so I was delighted to hear of its success at this year’s CAMRA Champion Winter [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing June 2005 Origin: Faversham, Kent, England Shepherd Neame 1698 Shepherd Neame helped pioneer the new generation of real ale in a bottle back in the mid-1990s, when a gorgeous version of Spitfire, now the brewery’s biggest seller in cask, found its way onto supermarket shelves. I regarded bottled [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing January 2005 Origin: Knightwick, Worcestershire, England Teme Valley Hearth Warmer A few hundred years ago it wouldn’t have been uncommon for local breweries to keep their own patch of humulus lupus, but times have changed. When it was founded behind the [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing April 2004. Origin: Wandsworth, London, England (now transferred to Wells and Youngs, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England) Youngs Special London Ale Youngs’ historic brewery site in the heart of Wandsworth, currently slated for possible redevelopment, produces some highly distinctive bottled beers. Most of these — for example luscious Double [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing January 2003 Origin: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Greene King Morland Hen's Tooth Back in 2000 Greene King, now one of Britain’s biggest independent brewers, acquired and closed the old-established family brewery, Morland of Abingdon. Among the brands it acquired was a bottle-conditioned strong pale ale, Hen’s [...] Originally publsihed in What’s Brewing December 2002 Origin: West Hewish, Somerset, England RCH Ale Mary The revival of spiced beer brewing in Britain is one of the most interesting developments of recent years. Opening the spice cupboard for the first time in centuries has set [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing July 2002 Origin: Chiswick, London, England, UK Fuller's 1845 Alongside its renowned cask conditioned ales, the Griffin brewery for years offered only pasteurised beers in bottle. Then to celebrate the 150th birthday in 1995 Fuller’s brewers looked for inspiration to the brewing practices of [...] |
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