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Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 8% Origin: Lembeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium Website: www.boon.be Boon Oude Geuze Mariage Parfait In 1977, after a period perfecting the skill of lambic blending at the old De Vit blender and former brewery in Lembeek, Frank Boon became the first person in decades to start a new brewery specialising in […] Beer sellers: Beermania ABV: 6% Origin: Beersel, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.3fonteinen.be 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek Traditional spontaneously fermented lambic beer doesn’t reach the consumer without being subjected to additional processes of maturation, blending and/or steeping with fruit to make it palatable. Though today’s better known lambic breweries generally carry out such processes themselves, […] Top Tastings 2010 (Oldgott Barique) ABV: 5.2% and 12.6% Origin: Praha 1, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic Website: www.umedvidku.cz U Medvidků, Praha 1 The Czech lands gave birth to the world’s most ubiquitous brewing style and the modern day Czech Republic is still one of the great beer nations, so it’s rather […] ABV: 6.5% Origin: Kobbegem, Vlaams-Brabant Website: http://www.mort-subite.be De Keersmaeker Mort Subite Oude Kriek This is an expanded review of a beer that featured as a fruit beer on the bottled beer review page in the August 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 7.5% Origin: Tampa, Florida, USA Website: www.cigarcitybrewing.com Cigar City Humidor Series As the crowds poured into the Colorado Convention Centre on the opening night of the Great American Beer Festival, the queues soon began to form at some predictable locations, such as Lost Abbey […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2008. ABV: 11% Origin: Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands Website: www.brouwerijdemolen.nl Molen de Arkduif, where Brouwerij de Molen is based. Photo: PH Louw, from Wikimedia Commons. Available from a huge claret cask at the Great British Beer Festival, this limited edition imperial porter is from […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 13% Origin: Chicago, Illinois, USA Website: http://www.gooseisland.com Goose Island Bourbon County Stout Originally brewed to celebrate this outstanding brewery’s 1000th batch of beer in 1992, this became the USA’s first cask matured beer and started a cult phenomenon among enthusiasts. […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 5% Origin: Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle, Vlaams Brabant, Vlaanderen Brouwerij Girardin For the style this is easy drinking but top quality from one of the most respected lambic breweries, a cherry-red beer with a creamy, woody and tannic aroma rich and oily with […] Great British Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 7.7% Origin: London W4, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk Fuller's Brewer's Reserve No 2 Limited Edition Oak Aged Ale The Brewer’s Reserve series is Fuller’s head brewer John Keeling’s limited edition of wood aged beers, starting with a Glenmorangie whisky cask version in 2008. The second edition uses the […] |
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