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Beer sellers: Westholme Store ABV: 5% Hambleton Nightmare Stout Nick Stafford’s Hambleton brewery is one of the most technically accomplished of British micros — and its founder is one of the more prominent characters on the beer scene. As commercial director of small brewers’ organisation SIBA, among other achievements he established the Direct [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 6% Brasserie Oc'Ale One of the surprises in store at specialist French beer shop Cave à Bulles in Paris is that craft brewing in France has now spread far beyond its historic home in the North, even to the warmer climes of the Midi. [...] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2008. ABV: 7.5% Nøgne-Ø Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast As the name of this beer suggests, Danish-based but itinerant cult brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergsø is well aware of the enthusiast market and unsurprisingly the denizens of ratebeer.com and the like have taken very well [...] Great British Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 2.8% Brodie’s, the in house brewery at the William IV pub in east London, continues to impress with an imaginative range of beers including plenty of the dark stff. Served from cask stillage at the British Guild of Beer Writers’ pre-GBBF reception at Brew Wharf in Borough, this [...] First published in BEER July 2008 as part of a piece on beers recently converted to bottle conditioning. For more similar beers see previous post. ABV: 4.8 per cent Hook Norton Double Stout A steam-driven Victorian tower brewery on the edge of the Cotswolds [...] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. Top Tastings 2008. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 7% Van Vollenhoven poster Van Vollenhoven’s Extra Stout is arguably one of the best beers currently produced in the Netherlands, and it’s also a piece of genuine brewing heritage that links back to pre-war industrial [...] First published in BEER June 2007 as part of a piece about Threshers off licence chain’s Local Ale scheme. ABV: 5.3 per cent Threshers Local Ales: Alcazar Bombay Castle IPA, Mauldon's Black Adder, Three B's Shuttle Ale, Corvedale Dark and Delicious A couple of decades back, home drinkers looking for life beyond Liebfraumilch [...] A shorter version of this review was first published in BEER February 2010 as part of a piece about beers to taste with chocolate. For more beers tasted with chocolate, see previous post. ABV: 5% Hoggleys Solstice Stout More intense still [compared to the Elmtree mild reviewed in the previous post] is Hoggleys Solstice [...] First published in BEER October 2006 as part of a page marking the publication of the latest Good Bottled Beer Guide. For more beers featured on this page, see previous post. ABV: 4.7 and 5.5 per cent Why Not Cavalier Red Eastern England is becoming Britain’s beer heaven and Norfolk in particular boasts [...] ABV: 6% and 7% Originally published in BEER, February 2007 CAMRA North London tasting February 2010 (IPA only) Downton Chimera Dark Delight and India Pale Ale As sharp-eyed readers will have noticed, this page has for some time carried an open invitation for beer suggestions by email, all of which are gratefully received. Both breweries [...] |
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