|
||||||
|
|
European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 ABV: 6.1% Origin: Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England Website: www.roosters.co.uk Roosters Brewery Long before many of the current crop of in-yer-face British “craft” brewers had even reached legal drinking age, Roosters Brewery was challenging a market drenched in traditional brown bitters with the complex and distinctive aromas and flavours […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 ABV: 3.8% and 4.4% Origin: Leeds, England Website: www.leedsbrewery.co.uk Leeds Pale The closure and demolition of an historic brewery is always a loss in economic and heritage terms and, depending on how embedded it was in the life of its surroundings, a potential loss to local culture too. […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 Top Tastings 2012 (Siberia) ABV: 3.5% and 5.9% Origin: Ilkley, Bradford, England Website: www.ilkleybrewery.co.uk Ilkley Mary Jane It’s a generational thing, not a Yorkshire thing. When I heard that the Ilkley brewery’s flagship cask ale goes by the name of Mary Jane, it made perfect sense. The […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 10% Origin: Bedford, Bedfordshire, England Website: www.wellsandyoungs.co.uk Wells & Young's Courage Imperial Russian Stout 2011 Excitement rippled through the beer world in Autumn 2011 as one of Britain’s most historic beer brands made an unexpected return from the dead. Courage Imperial Russian Stout can trace its lineage back to […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 7.2% Origin: Macclesfield, Cheshire East, England Website: redwillowbrewery.com Redwillow Ageless Double IPA Recent years have seen the emergence of a number of new, small British breweries that place themselves firmly in the international craft beer movement rather than the native real ale tradition. I hesitate to use the label […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 7.3% Origin: Manchester, England Website: www.marblebeers.co.uk, www.fullers.co.uk Fuller's head brewer John Keeling with Marble Old Manchester. "Old and from Manchester." Pic: Fuller's Collaboration beers are especially popular among the new generation of craft brewers, often across national boundaries, and have produced some fascinating results. But here’s one that crosses […] 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: 3.7% Origin: Maldon, Essex, England Website: www.mightyoakbrewery.co.uk Mighty Oak Oscar Wilde This beer won Champion Beer of Britain (CBoB) at the Great British Beer Festival in August 2011, much to the consternation of some craft beer aficianados who saw this as further evidence of CAMRA conservatism and fustiness – […] 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 […] |
|
||||
