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First published in Beers of the World, February 2009 La Cerveteca, Barcelona Catalunya may be some way south of Europe’s “beer belt” and its Penedès vineyards may have a well-earned place in world wine guides, but this corner of the northern Mediterranean is also the heartland of Spain’s industrial revolution. In the mid-19th […] Beer sellers: Cerveteca ABV: 5% Origin: Anderlecht, Brussel-Bruxelles, Belgium Website: www.cantillon.be Cantillon Lou Pepe Gueuze Cantillon, with its unforgivingly dry oude geuze, has a reputation as the most hypertraditional of the lambic breweries, but proprietors the Van Roy family have developed quite a repertoire of innovative variations on the traditional techniques. This special […] Beer sellers: Cerveteca ABV: 7.5% Origin: Regency Park, South Australia Website: www.coopers.com.au Coopers Extra Strong Vintage Ale The historic Coopers brewery near Adelaide is known as the hypertraditional custodian of the unique style of Sparkling Ale, as well as several other old established beers. But in 1998 head brewer Tim Cooper decided to […] Beer sellers: Cerveteca ABV: 6% Origin: Longmont, Colorado, USA Website: www.lefthandbrewing.com Left Hand Milk Stout A typical US craft brewing success story in one of North America’s fine beer heartlands, Colorado, Left Hand first brewed commercially in 1994, on the initiative of home brewer Dick Doore and his old friend Eric Wallace. Its […] First published in Beers of the World December 2008 La cave à bulles, Paris Regular readers will already know that not all French beer comes from multinational-owned Alsatian fizz factories, but even if you’ve encountered the odd bière de garde or Breton brew, you probably have little idea of the scope and breadth […] From the archive: First published in the Oxford Bottled Beer Database May 2002. Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 7% Origin: Gussignies, Nord, France Bailleux Cuvée des Jonquilles ‘Daffodil harvest’, a bottle-conditioned blond ale with a suitably floral label full of the cheer of spring, comes from an artisanal brewery at the Baron […] Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 7% Origin: Trumilly, Oise (Picardie), France Website: www.st-rieul.com St Rieul bière brune sur lie avec sa medaille d'argent de Concours Général d'Agricole, Paris 2011 The single frog on the label of these impressive beers from northern France refers to a sweet little parable about standing out from […] Tri Martolod Blonde Artisanale Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 4.6% Origin: Konk Kerne, Penn-ar-Bed (Breizh), France Website: www.trimartolod.fr One of a cluster of small breweries in Celtic Brittany, Tri Martolod — or ‘Three Sailors’, a reference to a Breton folk song — was founded in 1999 in the fashionable […] |
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