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Top Tastings 2011 (bottled Cuvée d’Oscar) ABV: 6.5% and 7.5% Craig Allan Cuvée d'Oscar (brewed at Proef) These beers are produced in Belgian Flanders by a Scottish brewer based in Picardy, northern France, and are decidedly international at heart. Craig Allan trained in Edinburgh but found the British brewing scene hidebound by tradition. [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 7.2% Redwillow Ageless Double IPA Recent years have seen the emergence of a number of new, small British breweries that place themselves firmly in the international craft beer movement rather than the native real ale tradition. I hesitate to use the label “craft beer” as in my view even [...] London Beer Tastings 2011. For more background on the brewery, see previous post. ABV: 6.8%, 7.1% and 5.5% Kernel Pale Ale Besides its old fashioned dark beers, Kernel brews contemporary beers fresh with the flavours of new world hops. These too are of exceptional quality, matching the standards set by the US brewers [...] London Beer Tastings 2011. ABV: 5.3% Fuller's Bengal Lancer Bengal Lancer was launched in 2009 as Fuller’s contribution to the growing range of India Pale Ales, as well as the [...] Beer sellers: Meadow Farm Shop ABV: 4.5%, 4.8% and 58% Kingstone Classic Bitter I tasted several bottle conditioned Kingstone beers during a visit to the adjoining Meadow Farm Shop in the breathtakingly beautiful Wye Valley for a Beers of the World piece in 2008. There’s more background to the brewery in my review of Kingstone [...] Beer sellers: Zlý Časy / Pivkupectví ABV: 6.2% One of a small but growing number of innovative new microbreweries challenging the dominance of straightforward pale and dark lagers in the Czech Republic, Pivovar Matuška was founded only in 2009 but has already caused ripples internationally with its eclectic range of [...] ABV: 7.7% Thornbridge Halcyon Green Hopped IPA. Pic: Mark Dredge, www.pencilandspoon.com Peak District-based Thornbridge continues to demonstrate its world class credentials with its latest batch of special bottles. This limited edition of Halcyon, already an impressive India Pale Ale, was brewed during last year’s hop harvest and dosed with “massive amounts of freshly [...] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 7.5% Cigar City Humidor Series As the crowds poured into the Colorado Convention Centre on the opening night of the Great American Beer Festival, the queues soon began to form at some predictable locations, such as Lost Abbey and Russian River. But I also noted a long [...] Beer sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7% Bear Republic Racer 5 India Pale Ale The fame of Northern California’s Sonoma County is now second only to neighbouring Napa among wine lovers, but the area round Healdsburg was once hop growing country, a fact which father and son Richard R & Richard G Norgrove [...] This beer featured in BEER August 2009 as a selection from the new Good Bottled Beer Guide. ABV: 7% Hopshackle This is one of several beers I encountered during 2009 from Nigel Wright’s excellent Hopshackle Brewery: see my review of Historic Porter for more background. Double Momentum, an IPA so called as it is [...] |
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