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First published in BEER August 2007. 30th Great British Beer Festival 2007 Earl's Court London CAMRA The Great British Beer Festival is not only a huge celebration of indigenous real ale but also regularly presents one of the best showcases for international beer you could hope to find. The imported beer bars, collectively known as Bières sans [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 5.7% The South African beer market is unsurprisingly almost exclusively dominated by homegrown global brewer SABMiller, but there is a scattering of micros and brewpubs, and the one that’s gained the most prominence internationally is Shongweni. [...] 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 [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 5% Asahi Premium Black Kuronama The Japanese beer market exhibits a taste for dark lagers inherited no doubt from the German brewers who helped set up the country’s brewing industry in the late 19th century. Even so, this black [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 10.6% Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout The Brooklyn brewery, with its world famous and well travelled head brewer Garrett Oliver, needs little introduction — originally established to revive the pre-Prohibition style of quality lager as a contract brewery in [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 5% Girardin Framboise This traditional lambic brewery in the heart of the Pajottenland, founded in 1882, is especially famed for its unfiltered black label gueuze. Its fruit beers are filtered but far from the artificially sweetened products of some [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 3.5% Dupont Biolégère Dupont, founded in 1844, is the highest regarded of the traditional farmhouse saison breweries of Hainaut though its talents stretch far beyond the traditional parameters of this sturdy, rustic style. There are several organic beers, including this [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 8% Café-brouwerij Loterbol One of a batch of newer microbreweries gradually bringing new techniques and flavours to the Belgian beer scene, Loterbol describes itself as a brewpub — café-brouwerij — though in fact the pub is open [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 6% St Christoffel Christoffel Blond Another of the Netherlands’ most outstanding beers, this is the flagship brew of St Christoffel, founded by Leo Brand, scion of the Brand brewing dynasty, in the Dutch traditional brewing heartland [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. Top Tastings 2008. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 7% Van Vollenhoven poster Van Vollenhoven’s Extra Stout is arguably one of the best beers currently produced in the Netherlands, and it’s also a piece of genuine brewing heritage that links back to pre-war industrial [...] |
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