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Originally published in What’s Brewing October 2003 Origin: Winstantow, Shropshire, England ABV: 4.7 per cent Buy from supermarkets, specialist shops Wood's Hopping Mad Awareness of the ingredients of beers is growing, and the hop, which gives beer its most obviously identifiable and distinctive aromas and flavours, has come in for particular attention. Where […] Originally published in What’s Brewing September 2003 Origin: Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, England ABV: 4.5 per cent Buy from Booths supermarkets Batemans Booths Pour With Care Booths, a regional supermarket chain in northwest England, offers an imaginative range of bottled beers, including bottle conditioned ales, that puts its national competitors to shame. The range is driven by […] Originally published in What’s Brewing July 2003 Origin: Horsham, Sussex, England ABV: 4.2 per cent Buy from supermarkets Coniston Bluebird Bitter When the directors of Brakspear cashed in their prime piece of Thames-side, not only their own brands were affected. Among the homeless were a number of contract brews, including supermarket-listed Coniston Bluebird, […] Originally published in What’s Brewing May 2004. Note since publication the brewery has been taken over and closed by Fuller’s. Origin: Horndean, Hampshire, England ABV: 4.8 per cent Buy from Specialist stockists, brewery’s pubs George Gale Festival Mild Bottle-conditioned mild must be one of Britain’s rarest styles, perhaps because the low strength […] Originally published in What’s Brewing February 2003 Origin: Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England ABV: 6.6 per cent Buy from Tesco Exmoor Beast Wiveliscombe was once one of southwest England’s most important brewing towns, home to the Hancock brewery between 1807 and 1959. In 1979 a new independent company revived brewing at the Hancock site, and […] Originally published in What’s Brewing January 2003 Origin: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England ABV: 6.5 per cent Buy from most supermarkets Greene King Morland Hen's Tooth Back in 2000 Greene King, now one of Britain’s biggest independent brewers, acquired and closed the old-established family brewery, Morland of Abingdon. Among the brands it acquired […] Originally publsihed in What’s Brewing December 2002 Origin: West Hewish, Somerset, England ABV: 6 per cent Buy from some supermarkets, specialist beer shops, Wessex Craft Brewers (www.wessexcraftbeers.co.uk) RCH Ale Mary The revival of spiced beer brewing in Britain is one of the most interesting developments of recent years. Opening the spice cupboard for […] Originally published in What’s Brewing August 2002 Also reviewed in a piece on beers to convert lager drinkers to ales with, BEER Feburary 2009 Hop Back Summer Lightning Origin: Salisbury, Wiltshire, England ABV: 5% Buy from: most supermarkets, beer shops, mail order from the brewery (tel 01725 510986, www.hopback.co.uk) Summer Lightning […] Originally published in What’s Brewing July 2002 Origin: Chiswick, London, England, UK ABV: 6.3% Buy from: most supermarkets, Fuller’s pubs and off licenses Fuller's 1845 Alongside its renowned cask conditioned ales, the Griffin brewery for years offered only pasteurised beers in bottle. Then to celebrate the 150th birthday in 1995 Fuller’s brewers looked […] |
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