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Hambleton Nightmare Stout

Beer sellers: Westholme Store

ABV: 5%
Origin: Melmerby, North Yorkshire, England
Website: www.hambletonales.co.uk

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 [...]

Oc’Ale Bière Noire Stout

Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009.

ABV: 6%
Origin: Lafrançaise, Midi-Pyrénées, France

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. [...]

Nøgne-Ø Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast

Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2008.

ABV: 7.5%
Origin: Grimstad, Aust-Agder, Norway
Website: www.mikkeller.dk, www.nogne-o.no

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 [...]

Brodie's Summer Stout

Great British Beer Festival 2010

ABV: 2.8%
Origin: London E10, England
Website: www.brodiesbeers.co.uk

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 [...]

Hook Norton Double Stout

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.
Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009.

ABV: 4.8 per cent
Origin: Hook Norton, Oxfordshire
Website www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk

Hook Norton Double Stout

A steam-driven Victorian tower brewery on the edge of the Cotswolds [...]

Schans Van Vollenhoven & Co's Extra Stout

Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. Top Tastings 2008. For more selections see previous post.
Beer sellers: De Bierkoning

ABV: 7%
Origin: Uithoorn, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Website: www.schansbier.nl

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 [...]

Mauldon's Black Adder

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
Origin: Sudbury, Suffolk, England
Website www.mauldons.co.uk

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 [...]

Hoggleys Solstice Stout

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%
Origin: Litchborough, Northamptonshire, England
Website: www.hoggleys.co.uk

Hoggleys Solstice Stout

More intense still [compared to the Elmtree mild reviewed in the previous post] is Hoggleys Solstice [...]

Why Not Cavalier Red and Chocolate Nutter

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
Origin: Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk, England
Website: www.thewhynotbrewery.co.uk

Why Not Cavalier Red

Eastern England is becoming Britain’s beer heaven and Norfolk in particular boasts [...]

Downton Chimera Dark Delight and India Pale Ale

ABV: 6% and 7%
Origin: Downton, Wiltshire, England
Website: http://www.hampshirebrewery.com/

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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