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Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 8.5% Origin: Placentia, California, USA Website: www.thebruery.com The Bruery Saison Rue The Bruery gets its name from a pun on the family name of founder Patrick Rue, and was first employed to designate his home brewing kit during his days as a law student. It was ported over when, […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 6.2% Origin: Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand Website: epicbeer.com, www.steambrewing.co.nz Steam / Epic Mayhem, on what's clearly a topless beach. New Zealand, or Aotearoa if you prefer, is the one of the latest countries to have come to the attention of international beer fans for its vibrant new […] Top Tastings 2011, Beer sellers: The Beermongers ABV: 5.1% Origin: Hood River, Oregon, USA Website: www.fullsailbrewing.com Full Sail Session Lager While beer geeks are bedazzled by the extremities of American brewing, it’s important to remember that the pheonomenal growth of the craft beer sector in the USA is mainly based not on […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 5.7% Origin: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Website: cub.com.au Tooth's (now Carlton United) Sheaf Stout apparently kept these strapping Aussie Rules players fit. Those were the days. I discovered a plain looking 750ml bottle of this southern hemisphere classic, which I’ve never seen on sale in the UK, in […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.6% Origin: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany Website: www.gose.de Bayerischer Bahnhof Gose Original Leipziger Bier Spezialität Gose remains one of the world’s most neglected historic beer styles, perhaps because the handful of breweries producing it remain small craft affairs and until recently it’s rarely been available outside its Saxon heartland. Michael […] Top Tastings 2011, Beer sellers: The Beermongers ABV: 9% Origin: Bend, Oregon, USA Website: www.bendbrewingco.com Bend Hop-Head Imperial India Pale Ale My trip to one of the US’s top craft beer cities, Portland, Oregon, in Autumn 2011 could easily have accounted for half my Top Tastings of the year, but to spread […] Box Steam Funnel Blower Top Tastings 2011 Southwest porters and strong beers ABV: 4.5% Origin: Colerne, Wiltshire, England Website: www.boxsteambrewery.com Family-owned Box Steam, founded in 2004 near Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s celebrated Great Western Railway tunnel under Box Hill in rural Wiltshire, is a brewery well worth keeping an eye on. I bumped into […] |
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