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Originally published in BEER January 2007 ABV: 3.8 and 4.2 per cent Origin: Larbert, Falkirk Buy from: Brewery (tel 01324 554000), specialists Website www.trystbrewery.co.uk Tryst Brockville Dark Hogmanay is imminent as this issue leaves the press, with Burns Night soon to follow, so it’s the time of year for this column to look […] First published in BEER December 2005 Origin: Lochristi, East Flanders, Belgium ABV: 7.5 per cent Dutch autumn bokbier must be one of the most underpublicised beer styles outside its home country: world beer surveys often don’t mention it all, or treat it as a footnote to German Bock. Yet it’s really a style in its […] Originally published in What’s Brewing November 2005 Origin: Burton Upon Trent, Staffordshire, England ABV: 5.6 per cent Buy from supermarkets White Shield Worthington White Shield Worthington White Shield was already a historic beer when CAMRA was founded in 1971. Then, it was one of only five bottle conditioned beers still in commercial production […] Originally published in What’s Brewing July 2005 Origin: Villers-devant-Orval, Luxembourg province, Belgium ABV: 6 per cent Buy from specialist suppliers Website www.orval.be Orval Orval is one of the world’s most unusual and distinctive ales as well as one of its finest. It’s one of the family of Belgian beers brewed under the supervision […] Originally published in What’s Brewing June 2005 Origin: Faversham, Kent, England ABV: 6.5 per cent Buy from supermarkets Website www.shepherd-neame.co.uk Shepherd Neame 1698 Shepherd Neame helped pioneer the new generation of real ale in a bottle back in the mid-1990s, when a gorgeous version of Spitfire, now the brewery’s biggest seller in cask, […] Originally published in What’s Brewing May 2005. This beer has since been discontinued. Origin: St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands ABV: 3.5 per cent Buy from supermarkets R W Randall Cynful It’s been an interesting year for bottled milds. Not only have more real milds appeared in bottle, but an excellent new […] Originally published in What’s Brewing April 2005. Origin: Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany ABV: 5.5 per cent Buy from specialist suppliers More information www.kaltenberg.de Kaltenberg König Ludwig Weissbier The connection between royalty and beer has perhaps never been so deep as in Bavaria, where secular, commercial brewing is a surprisingly recent invention. For most of […] Originally published in What’s Brewing March 2005. Note this brewery has since closed. Origin: Llangefni, Isle of Anglesey, Wales ABV: 4 and 4.5 per cent Buy from local sources, brewery Ynys Môn Medra Only four Welsh breweries offering real ale in a bottle are listed in the current Good Bottled Beer Guide, and […] Originally published in What’s Brewing February 2005 Origin: Fremantle, Western Australia ABV: 5.2 per cent Buy from Sainsbury, Waitrose, Oddbins, specialist suppliers Little Creatures Pale Ale Aside from Coopers of Adelaide with their unique sparkling ales, Australia is a disappointing country beer-wise, awash with the sort of cheap and nasty lager that most […] Originally published in What’s Brewing January 2005 Origin: Knightwick, Worcestershire, England ABV: 6 per cent Buy from Brewery (tel 01886 821235, www.temevalley.co.uk ), specialist suppliers Teme Valley Hearth Warmer A few hundred years ago it wouldn’t have been uncommon for local breweries to keep their own patch of humulus lupus, but times have […] |
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