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Box Steam Funnel Blower

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 [...]

Sambrook’s Junction, Powerhouse Porter and Pale Ale

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 [...]

Kernel Export Stout London 1890 and London Porter

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 [...]

Brodie’s Passion, Red and Superior London Porter (strong version)

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 [...]

Ticinese Bad Attitude Two Penny Porter

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, [...]

Molen 1914 Porter

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 [...]

Maui CoCoNut PorTeR

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.  [...]

Mexicana Potro

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. [...]

Old Chimneys Amber Porter 1785-1827

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 [...]

Cheddar Totty Pot

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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