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ABV: 4.5, 6.4 and 7.2% ThirstBear Brewing Company and Spanish Cuisine, San Francisco Northern California’s Bay Area is indisputably the birthplace of the modern US craft brewing movement, whether you date it from Fritz Maytag buying and reviving San Francisco’s historic Anchor brewery in 1965 or Jack McAuliffe founding the first US [...] Beer sellers: Beermongers ABV: 7.5% Logsdon Organic Farmhouse Brewery Dave Logsdon has more than an average brewer’s interest in yeast – he was a founder of renowned yeast culture supplier Wyeast, as well as being the original brewer at what’s now one of Oregon’s most successful craft breweries, Full Sail. So it’s perhaps [...] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 8.5% The Bruery Saison Rue The Bruery gets its name from a pun on the family name of founder Patrick Rue, and was first employed to designate his home brewing kit during his days as a law student. It was ported over when, having decided a career in brewing might [...] Beer sellers: Beermania ABV: 8% Blaugies La Moneuse Though the centre of gravity of Belgian speciality brewing is skewed towards the Dutch-speaking north, some of the most interesting and rustic Belgian beers come from small rural breweries in the French-speaking south of the country. Consider Blaugies, a brewery in a garage in the village of [...] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 8.5% Boulevard Smokestack Series Saison Brett Boulevard, founded by John Macdonald on Kansas City’s historic Southwest Boulevard in 1989, now claims to be the biggest speciality brewer in the Mid-West and the second largest brewer of any type in Missouri. Impressively, though, it’s built this success on [...] Beer sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 6.7% Port The Lost Abbey Red Barn Ale This is one of Port’s Lost Abbey range of Belgian-style ales, though it began life as a plain Port beer, SPF45. Red Barn pays tribute to a rustic saison, though with an emphasis on spicing: ginger, orange [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was published on facebook January 2009. ABV: 7.7% Southampton Cuvée des Fleurs The Southampton Publick House, Don and Charlie Sullivan’s acclaimed brewpub in the town of the same name at the eastern end of Long Island, has been open since 1996, and some of its [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook, January 2009. ABV: 5.8% Birrificio del Ducato Nuova Mattina (New Morning) I first encountered this unusual saison-style Italian craft brew, ”dry herbed” with ginger, green and red pepper, coriander and chamomile, on draught at the Pigs Ear beer festival. Jon, barman at the imported beer bar, [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 3.5% Dupont Biolégère Dupont, founded in 1844, is the highest regarded of the traditional farmhouse saison breweries of Hainaut though its talents stretch far beyond the traditional parameters of this sturdy, rustic style. There are several organic beers, including this [...] A shortened version of this piece appears in the book 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die (May 2010). ABV: 6% Vapeur Saison de Pipaix “Born in 1785 with the brewery”, says the publicity for this idiosyncratic speciality, though in truth its history over the two-and-a-bit centuries since has [...] |
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