Featured as a mild for May in BEER May 2009. To read the beginning of this piece see under Hobsons Postman’s Knock. The beer also featured in BEER May 2011 as part of a piece on the influence of different malts on beer flavour. See additional text below, and to read about other beers featured […]
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Top Tastings 2008. Featured in BEER February 2009 as an ale to win lager drinkers. ABV: 4.7% Origin: Cheddar, Somerset, England Website: www.cheddarales.co.uk Cheddar Totty Pot Established in 2006, this small brewery near the tourist hotspot of Cheddar Gorge soon won a reputation for good quality beers, including a bottle conditioned range. Its […] The Hepworth version featured in a piece on ales with which to convert lager drinkers, first published in BEER February 2009. This version may no longer be in production. ABV: 4.5% Origin: Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA (original version); Horsham, West Sussex, England (licensed version) Website: www.highandmightybeer.com, www.papercity.com High & Mighty Beer Company While licensing […] Top Tastings 2010 (Strong Suffolk) ABV: 6%, 6.5% and 6% Origin: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Website: www.greeneking.co.uk Greene King Suffolk Springer These three beers offer currently the only options for public access to Greene King’s legendary Old 5X, Britain’s only surviving wood aged beer made on a commercial scale. GK have long […] A shorter version of this review was first published in BEER August 2008 as part of a piece about beers for summer outdoor drinking. For more summer beers, see previous post. ABV: 4.2% Origin: Downton, Wiltshire, England Website: www.hopback.co.uk Hop Back Brewery From this Wiltshire micro’s well distributed portfolio of bottle conditioned beers […] First published in BEER July 2008 as part of a piece on beers recently converted to bottle conditioning. For more similar beers see previous post. Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 4.8 per cent Origin: Hook Norton, Oxfordshire Website www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk Hook Norton Double Stout A steam-driven Victorian […] First published in BEER July 2008 as part of a piece on beers recently converted to bottle conditioning. Young’s Bitter also included in Top Tastings 2008. ABV: 4.5 and 4.8 per cent Origin: Bedford, Bedfordshire Website www.wellsandyoungs.co.uk Wells and Young's Young's Bitter When you consider how perilously close British bottle conditioned beer was […] First published in BEER June 2008 as part of a piece about wheat beers. ABV: 6.8 per cent Origin: Rock, Cornwall, England Website www.sharpsbrewery.co.uk Sharp's Honey Spice Wheat Beer It’s a fine sunny spring day outside as I write this page – perhaps, given the weather so far this year, it’s too much […] First published in BEER May 2008 as part of a piece about Norfolk milds. More Norfolk milds in previous post. ABV: 3.9 per cent Origin: Heacham Website: www.foxbrewery.co.uk Fox Nina's Mild A more traditional example of vertical integration [than with Uncle Stuart’s in the previous post] can be found at Heacham, a […] |
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