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Top Tastings 2011, Beer sellers: The Beermongers ABV: 9% Bend Hop-Head Imperial India Pale Ale My trip to one of the US’s top craft beer cities, Portland, Oregon, in Autumn 2011 could easily have accounted for half my Top Tastings of the year, but to spread things out a bit I’ve limited myself to [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 10% Port Hop-15 I was delighted to discover bomber bottles of this classic US imperial India pale ale on sale in outstanding London beer seller Kris Wines. The name refers to its origin as a celebration ale for the 15th anniversary of the brewery’s original location at the Pizza Port restaurant in [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 9.2% Green Flash Le Freak Founded in 2002 by former pub owners Mike and Lisa Hinkley near San Diego, joined shortly afterwards by head brewer Chuck Silva, Green Flash has established itself as a favoured source of innovative and sometimes extreme beers with the West Coast’s characteristically liberal use of [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 10.5% Avery Maharaja Imperial India Pale Ale Regularly topping polls of the world’s best beers, this super-hopped pale ale comes from a Colorado brewery founded by home brewer Adam Avery in 1993, since much expanded and greatly admired for its cutting edge repertoire of extreme hop beers and barrel aged [...] Top Tastings 2010 (JJJ IPA) ABV: 7.5% and 9.5% An extended review of a beeer featured as a strong and special beer on the bottled beer review page in the November 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is additionally available [...] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 9% SweetWater Dank Tank Magnum IP Imperial Pilsner If the beers I tried from below the Mason-Dixon Line at the GABF are anything to go by, the craft breweries of the Deep South are quickly catching up with their northern colleagues — although the Dixie credentials [...] Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7.7% Stone Ruination IPA. With lots of hops. Stone is one of the most prominent and successful of new generation Californian micros, thanks to the quality of its beers and to a risky and slightly macho but ultimately rather savvy marketing policy that makes a virtue of [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 9% Dogfish Head 90 minute Imperial IPA From a modest British session India Pale Ale (see previous posting) to an all-cylinders-firing modern North American twist on the style. Dogfish Head started in 1995 as the first brewpub in Delaware, in Reheboth Beach, in its day the smallest brewery in the United States. Success [...] |
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