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London beer tastings 2011. For more Brodie’s beers and more background to the brewery, see previous post. ABV: 3.1%, 3.9% and 5.7% Brodie's Citra Like the brewery’s Amarilla, Citra is a popular, refreshing and approachable beer featuring an especially fragrant new US hop. A cask sample I tasted at the (sadly no longer [...] 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 [...] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 9% George Gale Prize Old Ale 2007 Gale’s Prize Old Ale is a real slice of British brewing heritage. Created by a Yorkshireman who worked at the company’s 1860s tower brewery in the early 20th century, it perpetuated an already declining technique in British brewing, the long ageing of strong ales [...] 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 [...] Top Tastings 2010 (Strong Suffolk) ABV: 6%, 6.5% and 6% Greene King Suffolk Springer These three beers offer currently the only options for public access to Greene King’s legendary Old 5X, Britain’s only surviving wood aged beer made on a commercial scale. GK have long followed a policy of selling the beer, [...] First published in BEER December 2006 as part of a page about strong beers. See previous post for more strong beers. ABV: 8.5 per cent Robinson's head brewer Chris Hellin with Old Tom Strong Ale. Photo: Tony Carter. The Unicorn brewery, in the former hat-making town of Stockport on the suburban fringe of Greater [...] First published in BEER December 2006 as part of a page about strong beers. ABV: 8.7 and 11 per cent Old Chimneys Redshank Strong Old Ale With the nights drawing in, the weather – at least in theory – getting colder and the festive season approaching, I’m turning this month to the strong [...] ABV: 8% A shorter version was originally published in BEER November 2008. For more smoky beers see previous post. Harviestoun Ola Dubh Special Reserve For a fine but mellow lightly charred experience I recommend Harviestoun Ola Dubh Special Reserve – not bottle conditioned but currently one of Britain’s most remarkable beers. It’s a version [...] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 5.6% Theakston Old Peculier Theakston Old Peculier is a stalwart icon of British real ale. Back in the 1970s it was the sort of beer enthusiasts discussed in hushed and reverential tones, with a pedigree dating back to the 1890s, appreciated not only for its quality but for its [...] Originally published in What’s Brewing November 2004 Note this beer may no longer be available in a bottle conditioned version. Origin: West Lydford, Somerset, England Cottage Norman's Conquest Back in the mid-1990s this superb Somerset ale seemed poised to lead the bottled beer renaissance. When Cottage Brewery founder Chris Norman and [...] |
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