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Des de Moor
Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
Accredited Beer Sommelier
Writer of "Probably the best book about beer in London" - Londonist
"A necessity if you're a beer geek travelling to London town" - Beer Advocate
"A joy to read" - Roger Protz
"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
Des de Moor

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Dolle Brouwers Special Extra Export Stout

First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts.

ABV: 9% Origin: Esen, West-Vlaanderen Website: www.dedollebrouwers.be

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 […]

Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post.

ABV: 10.6% Origin: Brooklyn, New York, USA Website: www.brooklynbrewery.com

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 […]

Brodie's Romanov Empress Stout

London Drinker and Brodie’s Bunny Basher Beer Festivals March 2010

ABV: 12.1% Origin: London E10, England Website: www.brodiesbeers.co.uk

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 […]

Old Chimneys Redshank Strong Old Ale and Good King Henry Special Reserve

First published in BEER December 2006 as part of a page about strong beers.

ABV: 8.7 and 11 per cent Origin: Market Weston, Suffolk, England Website: http://www.oldchimneysbrewery.com/

Old Chimneys Redshank Strong Old Ale

With the nights drawing in, the weather – at least in theory – getting colder and the festive season […]

Thornbridge Jaipur and Saint Petersburg

First published in BEER October 2006 as part of a page marking the publication of the latest Good Bottled Beer Guide. For more beers featured on this page, see previous post.

Jaipur was also featured in BEER August 2008 as part of a piece about beers for summer outdoor drinking and in the Beer Sellers […]

Thornbridge St Petersburg Whisky Reserve 2006

Pré-ZBF Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 (Highland)

ABV: 8.8% Origin: Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire, England Website: www.thornbridgebrewery.co.uk

Thornbridge Hall

Thornbridge are emerging as a world class new brewery, offering a solid range of excellent everyday beers but also knowing how to push at the boundaries of style while still retaining good taste and balance. Witness […]

Amager Imperial Stout

Top Tastings 2009.

A shorter version was originally published in BEER November 2009 as part of a piece about strong ales for winter.

Amager Imperial Stout

ABV: 10.1% Origin: Kastrup, Hovedstaden, Denmark Website: www.amagerbryghus.dk

No roundup of winter brews would be complete without a real imperial stout, and one of the very best […]

AleSmith Speedway Stout

Top Tastings 2009

ABV: 12% Origin: San Diego, California, USA Website: www.alesmith.com

AleSmith Speedway Stout

AleSmith brewery, based in the naval city of San Diego in southern California, emerged like many US craft breweries from the home brewing movement and has established itself as one of the most appreciated producers of big, strong […]

John Smith Courage Imperial Russian Stout (Imperial Stouts Part 7)

Originally published in BEER December 2003.

NOTE This review concludes what was originally published as a single longer article. See previous posts for an introduction to Imperial stouts and some other reviews. Scroll down for a 2012 update.

See all parts of this article: http://desdemoor.co.uk/?tag=imperial-stouts-beer-2003

Origin: Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England ABV: 10%

Harveys Imperial Extra Double Stout (Imperial Stouts Part 6)

Originally published in BEER December 2003.

NOTE This review forms part of what was originally published as a single longer article. See previous posts for an introduction to Imperial stouts and some other reviews. See the next post to read the final review.

See all parts of this article: http://desdemoor.co.uk/?tag=imperial-stouts-beer-2003

Origin: Lewes, East Sussex, […]