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Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 10.6% Origin: Brooklyn, New York, USA Website: www.brooklynbrewery.com Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout The Brooklyn brewery, with its world famous and well travelled head brewer Garrett Oliver, needs little introduction — originally established to revive the pre-Prohibition style of […] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 5% Origin: Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.brouwerijgirardin.com Girardin Framboise This traditional lambic brewery in the heart of the Pajottenland, founded in 1882, is especially famed for its unfiltered black label gueuze. Its fruit beers are filtered but far […] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 3.5% Origin: Tourpes, Hainaut, Wallonie Website: www.brasserie-dupont.com Dupont Biolégère Dupont, founded in 1844, is the highest regarded of the traditional farmhouse saison breweries of Hainaut though its talents stretch far beyond the traditional parameters of this sturdy, rustic […] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. Top Tastings 2008 ABV: 8% Origin: Diest, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.loterbol.be Café-brouwerij Loterbol One of a batch of newer microbreweries gradually bringing new techniques and flavours to the Belgian beer scene, Loterbol describes itself as a brewpub — café-brouwerij […] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. Beer sellers: De Bierkoning ABV: 6% Origin: Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands Website: www.christoffelbier.nl St Christoffel Christoffel Blond Another of the Netherlands’ most outstanding beers, this is the flagship brew of St Christoffel, founded by Leo Brand, scion of the […] 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 […] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 5.1% Origin: Bamberg, Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: www.schlenkerla.de Brauerei Heller: Wirtshaus zum "Schlenkerla" in Bamberg. Photo: Asio otus, Wikimedia commons. Heller-Trum Schlenkerla is the most prominent of the two breweries in the classic Franconian brewing city of Bamberg specialising […] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007 ABV: 4.9% Origin: Jever, Niedersachsen, Germany Website: www.jever.de Jever Pilsener This characterful pils-style lager from the German part of historic Fryslân is one of the driest and hoppiest of the established German lagers. Founded by the König family in 1848, the brewery passed through other […] First published in BEER July 2007 as part of a piece on French beer. For more French beers see previous post. Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 5.8 per cent Origin: Esquelbecq, Nord, France Website www.brasseriethiriez.ifrance.com Thiriez La Rouge Flamande Like most place names around Dunkirk, the name Esquelbecq is originally Dutch – […] First published in BEER July 2007 as part of a piece on French beer. For more French beers see previous post. NOTE: This brewery may since have closed. ABV: 6.5 per cent Origin: Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Nord, France Sources St-Amand Germinal Ambrée The village of Saint-Amand, in a regional park southeast of Lille, was […] |
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