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Box Steam Funnel Blower
Top Tastings 2011
Southwest porters and strong beers
ABV: 4.5%
Origin: Colerne, Wiltshire, England
Website: www.boxsteambrewery.com
Family-owned Box Steam, founded in 2004 near Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s celebrated Great Western Railway tunnel under Box Hill in rural Wiltshire, is a brewery well worth keeping an eye on. I bumped into them in Bristol at a regional heat of [...]
London Beer Tastings 2011
Junction was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.
ABV: 4.5%, 4.7% (5% in bottle) and 4.2%
Origin: Battersea, London SW11, England
Website: www.sambrooksbrewery.co.uk
Sambrook's Junction
The departure of Young’s from London in 2006 helped draw Duncan Sambrook’s attention to the lack of [...]
London Beer Tastings 2011.
Export Stout was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.
ABV: 7.8% and 5.6%
Origin: Bermondsey, London SE1, England
Website: www.thekernelbrewery.com
Evin O'Riordan of The Kernel brewery, London SE1
Evin O’Riordan, founder and head brewer at the Kernel brewery in Bermondsey, is not [...]
London beer tastings 2011.
For more Brodie’s beers , see previous post. For background to these tastings see the review of Amarilla.
This beer featured in BEER August 2011 as part of a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London. Read about more bottled London beers.
ABV: 3.8%, 4.3% and 10%
Origin: Leyton, London E10, England
Website: brodiesbeers.co.uk
King William IV [...]
European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011
ABV: 8.15%
Origin: Stabio, Ticino, Switzerland
Website: www.badattitude.ch
Birrificio Ticinese Bad Attitude Two Penny Porter
Yes, another brewer with a bad attitude, this time explicity proclaimed, and hailing from well-behaved Switzerland, though from the Italian speaking region, within a stone’s throw of the Italian border. Brewer Roberto Bianchi creates the beers at the Ticinese brewery, [...]
Beer sellers: De Bierkoning
ABV: 5.8%
Origin: Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Website: www.brouwerijdemolen.nl
De Molen 1914 Porter
Another of the impressive range of porters and stouts to have emerged from under the “ark dove” windmill in Bodegraven, this limited edition beer was produced in 2008 by brewer Menno Olivier and beer historian Ron Pattinson, based on a Whitbread recipe from 1914 [...]
Great American Beer Festival 2010
ABV: 5.7%
Origin: Lahaina, Hawaii, USA
Website: http://www.mauibrewingco.com
Maui CoCoNut PorTeR
I’ d been wanting to try this celebrated speciality beer since I met its brewer, the charming Garrett W Marrero, at the Rake in London earlier this year, when he was over to brew a cask version of it for the Wetherspoons beer festival. [...]
Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009.
ABV: 4.7%
Origin: Penjamo, Guanajuato, México
Website: www.tequilacorralejo.com.mx
Mexicana Potro
This beer, which claims to be a porter, split our tasting team down the middle when it popped up at the Tesco Drinks Awards judging in 2008. Although a blind tasting, the stylish and distinctive blue bottle was a giveaway. [...]
Featured as a selection from the new Good Bottled Beer Guide in BEER August 2009. For more selections see previous post.
ABV: 4.8%
Origin: Market Weston, Suffolk, England
Website: www.oldchimneysbrewery.com
Old Chimneys Brewery
Former Greene King, Vaux and Broughton brewer Dr Alan Thomson has consistently produced small runs of innovative beers from his Suffolk micro and Old Amber is no [...]
Top Tastings 2008. Featured in BEER February 2009 as an ale to win lager drinkers.
ABV: 4.7%
Origin: Cheddar, Somerset, England
Website: www.cheddarales.co.uk
Cheddar Totty Pot
Established in 2006, this small brewery near the tourist hotspot of Cheddar Gorge soon won a reputation for good quality beers, including a bottle conditioned range. Its porter, Totty Pot, was originally a seasonal [...]
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Biercultuur met Des de Moor.
Promotie van een internationale biercultuur die bieren van kwaliteit, voortreffelijkheid en streekkarakter erkent en viert, die met zorg en passie zijn gebrouwen.
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