|
|||||
|
 |
Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 3.7% Mighty Oak Oscar Wilde This beer won Champion Beer of Britain (CBoB) at the Great British Beer Festival in August 2011, much to the consternation of some craft beer aficianados who saw this as further evidence of CAMRA conservatism and fustiness – with all those exciting new high gravity [...] London Beer Tastings 2011 ABV: 3% and 6.1% Redemption Trinity Redemption, launched early in 2010, now seems like something of a veteran among the new wave of London brewers. Impressive from the start, it’s rapidly settled down into a consistently performing and reliable source of decent beer, pitched somewhere in between the avowedly [...] Beer sellers: Meadow Farm Shop ABV: 3.7% and 4.3% Jolly Brewer Taid's Garden Beside the better known likes of BrewDog, Dark Star and Thornbridge in the first rank of innovative and top quality British microbreweries are a handful of names that, despite limited production and distribution, deserve to be much more widely known and celebrated than [...] Great British Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 3.5% Revelation Cat Whole Milk Mild This is a beer deserving of the description ‘eclectic’: a cross between two traditional and somewhat neglected English beer styles, mild and milk stout, commissioned by an Italian and brewed by a Dutchman. The idea was dreamed up by beer guru Alex [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was first published on facebook January 2009. ABV: 2.7% BrewDog Founded in 2007 by iconoclasts James Watt and Martin Dickie, the latter formerly of Thornbridge, BrewDog has rapidly become one of Britain’s most exciting breweries. It’s also caused some controversy particulary through its pursuit of massive gravities using [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was first published on facebook January 2009. ABV: 3.9% Beckstones Black Gun Dog Freddy Mild Ale When this won gold in its class and silver overall at the 2008 Champion Beer of Britain you could hear people muttering “who?”. But it was well-deserved for this tiny brewery housed in a [...] First published in BEER May 2008 as part of a piece about Norfolk milds. More Norfolk milds in previous post. ABV: 3.9 per cent Fox Nina's Mild A more traditional example of vertical integration [than with Uncle Stuart's in the previous post] can be found at Heacham, a village on the Wash in northwest Norfolk [...] First published in BEER May 2008 as part of a piece about Norfolk milds. More Norfolk milds in previous post. ABV: 4 per cent Uncle Stuart's Pack Lane Mild Uncle Stuart’s on the outskirts of Norwich is one of a small but growing number of small breweries that are finding an alternative route to market with [...] First published in BEER May 2008 as part of a piece about Norfolk milds. ABV: 3.8 per cent Tipples The Hanged Monk The English region most associated with mild is, of course, the West Midlands, still home to a good few classics in cask. But if you’re planning to celebrate the style [...] |
 |
|||
|
Copyright © 2012 Des de Moor - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
