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Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 2.8% Origin: Horsham, West Sussex, England Website: www.weltonsbeer.com Weltons Pridenjoy Overall this Top Tastings selection exhibits a bias towards very strong beers demanding contemplative sipping, but I also have an affection for low gravity beers, which in many ways are a more demanding test of the brewer’s art. Ray […] Here’s a review of BSA and Wobble in a Bottle (also known as Santa’s Wobble) originally published in BEER April 2006, followed by an earlier review of Wobble from pioneering website the Oxford Bottled Beer Database, published on 23 March 2001. Hogs Back is now one of the most successful breweries in southeast England, but […] Originally published in What’s Brewing June 2005 Origin: Faversham, Kent, England ABV: 6.5 per cent Buy from supermarkets Website www.shepherd-neame.co.uk Shepherd Neame 1698 Shepherd Neame helped pioneer the new generation of real ale in a bottle back in the mid-1990s, when a gorgeous version of Spitfire, now the brewery’s biggest seller in cask, […] 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 […] 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, […] 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 […] |
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