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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
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"A necessity if you're a beer geek travelling to London town" - Beer Advocate
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"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Freedom Brewery, ex-London, now Staffordshire.
ABV: 4.4% Origin: London WC2, England Website: freedombrewery.com First published: 8 January 2001
Another review from the archive written for the pioneering Oxford Bottled Beer Database (OBBD). I’ve left it uncorrected — so please read it in that historical spirit.
It’s interesting to look back at this one […]
Fuller’s Past Masters Old Burton Extra
Top Tastings 2012
ABV: 7.3% Origin: London W4, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk
Burton Ale is one of the great near-lost beer styles, and one that has intrigued certain beer writers (including myself) thanks in part to its difficult to explain contemporary obscurity. Most beer enthusiasts who read the […]
Top Tastings 2011
ABV: 4.9% Origin: London W10, England Website: moncadabrewery.co.uk
Julio Moncada at the London Brewers Showcase, October 2011
2011 was an extraordinary year for brewing in London. When I sent the final text of London’s Best Beer, Bars and Pubs off to CAMRA Books in early March, I felt the capital […]
Top Tastings 2011
ABV: 10.1% Origin: London SE1, England Website: www.thekernelbrewery.com
The Kernel Brewery
Beers from the Kernel, surely London’s second world class brewery, loomed large in my drinking in 2011. I admit I was a bit late in catching up on them – my first encounter was in January when I visited […]
London Beer Tastings 2011 Junction was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.
ABV: 4.5%, 4.7% (5% in bottle) and 4.2% Origin: Battersea, London SW11, England Website: www.sambrooksbrewery.co.uk
Sambrook's Junction
The departure of Young’s from London in 2006 […]
London Beer Tastings 2011
ABV: 3% and 6.1% Origin: Tottenham, London N17, England Website: www.redemptionbrewing.co.uk
Redemption Trinity
Redemption, launched early in 2010, now seems like something of a veteran among the new wave of London brewers. Impressive from the start, it’s rapidly settled down into a consistently performing and reliable source of decent […]
London Beer Tastings 2011. For more background on the brewery, see previous post.
ABV: 6.8%, 7.1% and 5.5% Origin: Bermondsey, London SE1, England Website: www.thekernelbrewery.com
Kernel Pale Ale
Besides its old fashioned dark beers, Kernel brews contemporary beers fresh with the flavours of new world hops. These too are of exceptional quality, […]
London Beer Tastings 2011. Export Stout was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.
ABV: 7.8% and 5.6% Origin: Bermondsey, London SE1, England Website: www.thekernelbrewery.com
Evin O'Riordan of The Kernel brewery, London SE1
Evin O’Riordan, founder and head brewer […]
Top Tastings 2009 / CAMRA North London Tasting 2010 / London beer tastings 2011 / Top Tastings 2011 (2001 vintage)
ABV: 8.5% Origin: Chiswick, London W6, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk
A run of Fuller's Vintage Ale poses for the camera, Hock Cellar, Fuller's Brewery, London W6, October 2011
Until the recent resurgence that […]
London Beer Tastings 2011. This beer was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.
ABV: 5.3% Origin: Chiswick, London W5, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk
Fuller's Bengal Lancer
Bengal Lancer was launched in 2009 as Fuller’s contribution to the growing range […]
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