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Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 9% North Coast Old Rasputin Imperial Russian Stout “Сердечный друг не родится вдруг,” reads the Russian inscription on the label of this multi-award winning Imperial Stout named after the notorious associate of the last Russian tsarina — “A dear friend is not to be found [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 13% Goose Island Bourbon County Stout Originally brewed to celebrate this outstanding brewery’s 1000th batch of beer in 1992, this became the USA’s first cask matured beer and started a cult phenomenon among enthusiasts. The first batches were matured in ex-Jim [...] Featured as a selection from the new Good Bottled Beer Guide in BEER August 2009. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 6% Acorn Gorlovka Imperial Stout Acorn brewery has its origins in the old Barnsley Brewery, well known for its Barnsley Bitter. When this went into liquidation, eventually merging with Blackpool Brewery, [...] Top Tastings 2010 (Verdi Black Jack) ABV: 5%, 8.2% and 8% Italy, as I’ve mentioned here before, is currently one of the beer world’s innovation hotspots, with an emerging craft brewing movement fusing native respect for fine food and drink with a creative energy partly inspired by US brewing, and similarly unhindered by [...] First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts. For more imperial stouts see previous post. ABV: 11 per cent Rogue XS Imperial Stout Founded in 1988, Rogue are now a mainstay of the craft brewing hotbed of the Pacific Northwest and among the handful of small US brewers [...] First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts. For more imperial stouts see previous post. ABV: 10.5 per cent Dark Star Imperial Stout Dark Star originated at the Evening Star brewpub in Brighton in 1991. Ten years later the brewery, which now owns three pubs, moved to a [...] First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts. ABV: 9% De Dolle Brouwers Special Extra Export Stout Imperial Stout was a souped-up 19th century development of London porter that found favour in Tsarist. A century later the sole surviving original brand from Barclay Perkins ended up in the dubious [...] 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 [...] London Drinker and Brodie’s Bunny Basher Beer Festivals March 2010 ABV: 12.1% Catherine II The Great (Екатерина II Великая, 1729-96), Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias, by D G Levitsky c1770 The Brodies only revived brewing at the King William IV in Leyton a year and a half ago but already they’re producing [...] First published in BEER December 2006 as part of a page about strong beers. ABV: 8.7 and 11 per cent Old Chimneys Redshank Strong Old Ale With the nights drawing in, the weather – at least in theory – getting colder and the festive season approaching, I’m turning this month to the strong [...] |
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