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Beer sellers: Meadow Farm Shop ABV: 3.7% and 4.3% Jolly Brewer Taid's Garden Beside the better known likes of BrewDog, Dark Star and Thornbridge in the first rank of innovative and top quality British microbreweries are a handful of names that, despite limited production and distribution, deserve to be much more widely known and celebrated than [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 4.3%
The Hepworth version featured in a piece on ales with which to convert lager drinkers, first published in BEER February 2009. This version may no longer be in production. ABV: 4.5% High & Mighty Beer Company While licensing of international lager brands is all too [...] A shorter version of this review was first published in BEER August 2008 as part of a piece about beers for summer outdoor drinking. ABV: 4% Kingstone Gold Originally established in 2005 at Kinsons Farm, Gwenffrwd (Whitebrook) nearby, this small brewery moved two years later to an idyllic site on the wooded slopes of the [...] First published in BEER February 2008. ABV: 3.9 per cent Little Valley Withens IPA As most readers will know, India Pale Ales were originally high gravity, generously hopped export products that later evolved into the more session-friendly draught interpretations still supplied by the likes of Caledonian and Greene King. It’s the original style [...] First published in BEER November 2007 as part of a piece about beers from Booths supermarkets. More Booths beers in previous post. ABV: 5 per cent Wells & Young's Young's Champion Live Golden Ale Like many people I was sad to see Young’s quit Wandsworth but I’ve been impressed with the subsequent flavour matching [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 5.8% Coopers Sparkling Ale The survival of the Coopers brewery with its unique style of Adelaide sparkling ale amidst a tide of amber nectar you wouldn’t give a XXXX for, as recently as 2007 fighting off a hostile bid [...] London Drinker Beer Festival March 2010 ABV: 5% Crouch Vale Amarillo Beer blogger Mark Dredge, of Pencil & Spoon fame, pointed me in the direction of this fine hoppy golden ale at the London Drinker beer festival. From one of Britain’s oldest and most respected new generation micros (founded in 1981), it [...] Zythos Bierfestival 2010 ABV: 5.5% De Dochter van de Korenaar Noblesse De Dochter van de Korenaar — the Ear of Grain’s Daughter — is one of the remote outposts of Belgian brewing, in boundary boggling Baarle-Hertog, a tiny and irregularly shaped enclave of Belgium — less than 8km² divided over 24 seperate pieces of land, [...] Rake Welsh Beer Festival February 2010 ABV: 4.4% The Blorenge. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jemwilliams/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 I must confess I’d not heard of this brewery, one of a number of new Welsh micros, and chose the beer from the cask selection at the Rake festival largely on the grounds of its relatively low [...] |
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