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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 [...] First published in BEER April 2008 as part of a piece on beer in Sainsbury’s. ABV: 4.7, 6.5 and 7.5 per cent Meantime Pale Ale When Heriot-Watt and Weihenstephan-trained brewer Alastair Hook set up on his own in an industrial unit a stone’s throw from the Thames Barrier in 2000, he chose to follow [...] 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. [...] First published in BEER June 2007 as part of a piece about Threshers off licence chain’s Local Ale scheme. For more Threshers Local Ales see previous post. ABV: 6.5 per cent Alcazar Bombay Castle IPA Brewing at the Fox and Crown pub since 1999, Alcazar takes its name from a Moorish-Spanish word meaning “the [...] British Real Ale in a Bottle May 2010 ABV: 5% Westerham National Trust Viceroy India Pale Ale This beer featured as a British Real Ale in a Bottle on the bottled beer review page in the May 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it [...] 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 piece on Westholme [...] Great British Beer Festival Real Ale in a Bottle Bar 2006 ABV: 5.5% St Austell Proper Job This Cornish interpretation of an old-fashioned IPA is a little light in alcohol to be true to the style, but very approachable and tasty. Dedicated to the 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment, who fought in Indian Mutiny, it’s made [...] Great British Beer Festival Real Ale in a Bottle Bar 2006 ABV: 7.5% Burton Bridge Empire Pale Ale This is one of the better British revivalist interpretations of the India Pale Ale style, from its spiritual homeland of Burton, brewed with Pipkin pale malt, invert sugar and Challenger and Styrian Goldings hops to [...] ABV: 6% and 7% Originally published in BEER, February 2007 CAMRA North London tasting February 2010 (IPA only) Downton Chimera Dark Delight and India Pale Ale As sharp-eyed readers will have noticed, this page has for some time carried an open invitation for beer suggestions by email, all of which are gratefully received. Both breweries [...] Originally published in BEER January 2007 ABV: 3.8 and 4.2 per cent Tryst Brockville Dark Hogmanay is imminent as this issue leaves the press, with Burns Night soon to follow, so it’s the time of year for this column to look north of the border. In previous years I’ve bemoaned [...] |
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