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Beer sellers: Abbaye des Saveurs ABV: 6% Artésienne St Glinglin Limited Edition Single Hop Amarillo You’ll look in vain for the delightfully assonant St Glinglin (pronounced like ‘san-glan-glan’ but with French nasalised vowels) in the Dictionary of Saints. When a French speaker says something will happen on St Glinglin’s day, it’s [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 3.8% Fyne Ales Jarl Cask golden ales are now as ubiquitous in Britain as traditional bitter, and most, it’s sad to say, make for relatively bland, if refreshing, drinking. One of the ways some of them are marking themselves out is by leaning towards the US style of [...] London Beer Tastings 2011 ABV: 3% and 6.1% Redemption Trinity Redemption, launched early in 2010, now seems like something of a veteran among the new wave of London brewers. Impressive from the start, it’s rapidly settled down into a consistently performing and reliable source of decent beer, pitched somewhere in between the avowedly [...] London beer tastings 2011 ABV: 4.5% and 5% Tap handles line up at Camden Town Brewery. Pic: Mark Dredge. Although the marvellously juicy and refreshing Hells Lager is to me Camden Town’s greatest achievement so far, their other regular beers, though straightforward, [...] 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: Scottish Real Ale Shop ABV: 6% Highland (Swannay) Orkney Blast One of Britain’s most northerly breweries and one of its more ambitious, the Highland Brewing Company’s Swannay Brewery was established by Rob Hill, formerly with the Orkney Brewery, originally as a beer firm that contracted out to English breweries. Since 2006, however, [...] Tri Martolod Blonde Artisanale Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 4.6% One of a cluster of small breweries in Celtic Brittany, Tri Martolod — or ‘Three Sailors’, a reference to a Breton folk song — was founded in 1999 in the fashionable seaside resort of Benoded, operating as a cooperative. Prizes at [...] William Worthington Red Shield European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011 ABV: 4.2% Legendary former Bass brewer Steve Wellington, who still presides over the microbrewery at what is now the Coors Visitor Centre in Burton though is set to retire this summer, developed this bottle conditioned ”blond Burton ale” as a contemporary, more easy drinking, [...] |
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