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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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Freeminer Trafalgar India Pale Ale

Originally published in What’s Brewing June 2004

Note this beer is no longer available in a bottle conditioned version, only in cask or filtered versions.

Origin: Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England ABV: 6 per cent

Freeminer Trafalgar India Pale Ale

Freeminer Brewery, established in 1992 in the Royal Forest of Dean, is the source of […]

Banks & Taylor Black Dragon Mild

Originally published in What’s Brewing May 2004.

Origin: Shefford, Bedfordshire, England ABV: 4.3 per cent Buy from Specialist stockists, brewery’s pubs, direct sales (tel 01462 815080, www.banksandtaylor.com)

Banks & Taylor Black Dragon Mild

As I noted this time last year, real mild in a bottle must be one of Britain’s rarest styles. Historically, […]

Youngs Special London Ale

Originally published in What’s Brewing April 2004.

Origin: Wandsworth, London, England (now transferred to Wells and Youngs, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England) ABV: 6.4 per cent Buy from most supermarkets

Youngs Special London Ale

Youngs’ historic brewery site in the heart of Wandsworth, currently slated for possible redevelopment, produces some highly distinctive bottled beers. Most […]

Hepworth Bath Ales Festivity

Originally published in What’s Brewing January 2004

Origin: Horsham, Sussex, England (now brewed in a filtered bottled or cask version only by the owning brewery, Bath Ales, Bristol, England) ABV: 5 per cent Buy from local supermarkets and outlets, Bath Ales (0117 952 7580, www.bathales.com)

Bath Ales Festivity

Festivity, originated by northeast Somerset […]

Meantime Chocolate

Originally published in What’s Brewing December 2003

Origin: Greenwich, London ABV: 4.5 per cent (since reformulated to 6.5%) Buy from supermarkets

Meantime Chocolate

Unlike most British brewers, Alastair Hook, who founded the Meantime microbrewery in Greenwich in 2000, comes to praise lager not to bury it. Alastair was trained both in Edinburgh and […]

John Smith Courage Imperial Russian Stout (Imperial Stouts Part 7)

Originally published in BEER December 2003.

NOTE This review concludes what was originally published as a single longer article. See previous posts for an introduction to Imperial stouts and some other reviews. Scroll down for a 2012 update.

See all parts of this article: http://desdemoor.co.uk/?tag=imperial-stouts-beer-2003

Origin: Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England ABV: 10%

Harveys Imperial Extra Double Stout (Imperial Stouts Part 6)

Originally published in BEER December 2003.

NOTE This review forms part of what was originally published as a single longer article. See previous posts for an introduction to Imperial stouts and some other reviews. See the next post to read the final review.

See all parts of this article: http://desdemoor.co.uk/?tag=imperial-stouts-beer-2003

Origin: Lewes, East Sussex, […]

Durham Temptation (Imperial Stouts Part 3)

Originally published in BEER December 2003.

NOTE This review forms part of what was originally published as a single longer article. See previous posts for an introduction to Imperial stouts and some other reviews. See the next post to continue reading about further Imperial stouts. See all parts of this article: http://desdemoor.co.uk/?tag=imperial-stouts-beer-2003

Origin: […]

Old Chimneys Good King Henry Imperial Stout (Imperial Stouts Part 2)

Originally published in BEER December 2003.

NOTE This review forms part of what was originally published as a single longer article. See the previous post for an introduction to Imperial stouts and the first review. See the next post to continue reading about further Imperial stouts. See all parts of this article: http://desdemoor.co.uk/?tag=imperial-stouts-beer-2003

Origin: Market […]

Pitfield's 1792 Imperial Stout (Imperial Stouts Part 1)'s

Originally published in BEER December 2003.

Imperial stouts

NOTE This review forms part of what was originally published as a single longer article. See the link at the end to continue reading about further Imperial stouts considered alongside this one. See all parts of this article: http://desdemoor.co.uk/?tag=imperial-stouts-beer-2003

Origin: London, England (since moved to […]