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Des de Moor
Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
Accredited Beer Sommelier
Writer of "Probably the best book about beer in London" - Londonist
"A necessity if you're a beer geek travelling to London town" - Beer Advocate
"A joy to read" - Roger Protz
"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
Des de Moor

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St Austell Admiral’s Ale

ABV: 5% Origin: St Austell, Cornwall, England Website: www.staustellbrewery.co.uk

A shorter version was originally published in BEER November 2008. For more smoky beers see previous post. See also Top Tastings 2008.

CAMRA North London tasting February 2010

St Austell Admiral's Ale

For a more subtle whiff of the bonfire (than Heller Aecht Schlenkerla […]

Heller Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Weizen

ABV: 5.2% Origin: Bamberg, Franken (Bayern), Germany Website: www.schlenkerla.de

A shorter version was originally published in BEER November 2008.

Heller Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Weizen

Global warming may have turned late autumn into a balmy season that fools trees into staying up past their bedtime, but according to my childhood programming the cold begins […]

Teignworthy Martha's Mild

ABV: 5.3% Origin: Newton Abbot, Devon, England Website: www.tuckersonline.co.uk

Originally published in BEER May 2007. For more bottled milds see previous post

Teignworthy Martha's Mild

Tucker’s Maltings of Newton Abbot is one of Britain’s few surviving specialist maltings. The building is now a major tourist attraction as well as a working maltings, and […]

Hoggleys Mill Lane Mild

ABV: 4% Origin: Kislingbury, Northamptonshire, England Website www.hoggleys.co.uk

Originally published in BEER May 2007. For more bottled milds see previous post.

CAMRA North London tasting 2010

Hoggleys Mill Lane Mild

Meanwhile if Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby (see previous post) remains impossible to obtain, there are an increasing number of other good bottle conditioned […]

Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby

ABV: 6% Origin: Sedgley, West Midlands, England Website: www.sarahhughesbrewery.co.uk

Originally published in BEER May 2007

Preface (March 2010):

Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby

The Beacon Hotel brewpub on the outskirts of Sedgley, deep in the Black Country near Wolverhampton and Dudley, may be an unlikely home to a world classic, but its Sarah […]

Hop Back Crop Circle

ABV: 4.2% Origin: Downton, Wiltshire, England Website: www.hopback.co.uk

CAMRA North London tasting February 2010

Hop Back Crop Circle

Hop Back have grown into one of the major British craft brewers with an innovative but cannily targeted range of speciality ales led by the trendsetting Summer Lightning, and a strategy that pursues the takeout […]