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ABV: 4.2% Origin: Downton, Wiltshire, England Website: www.hopback.co.uk CAMRA North London tasting February 2010 Hop Back Crop Circle Hop Back have grown into one of the major British craft brewers with an innovative but cannily targeted range of speciality ales led by the trendsetting Summer Lightning, and a strategy that pursues the takeout […] Originally published in BEER June 2006 as part of a piece about beers in Asda supermarkets ABV: 5 per cent Origin: St Austell, Cornwall, England Buy from: ASDA supermarkets St Austell Smuggler's Ale I’ve been drinking a lot of St Austell beers recently: a trip deep into the brewery’s territory to research a […] First published in BEER March 2007 ABV: 4.8 and 5 per cent Origin: Newquay, Cornwall Buy from: Local outlets, specialists Website: www.atlanticbrewery.com Atlantic Blue, Red and Gold Meanwhile, Britain’s other Celtic peninsula is providing ever richer pickings for the beer connoisseur [see previous post reviewing two Welsh beers], with one of our few […] Originally published in What’s Brewing November 2004 Note this beer may no longer be available in a bottle conditioned version. Origin: West Lydford, Somerset, England ABV: 7 per cent Buy from Specialist suppliers, regional Tesco Cottage Norman's Conquest Back in the mid-1990s this superb Somerset ale seemed poised to lead the bottled beer […] Originally published in What’s Brewing September 2004 Origin: St Austell, Cornwall, England ABV: 4.8 per cent Buy from Supermarkets, brewery’s pubs, mail order Website www.staustellbrewery.co.uk St Austell Clouded Yellow Clouded Yellow from St Austell, Cornwall’s only surviving traditional family brewery, must have one of Britain’s most evocative beer names. The clouded yellow is […] 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 […] 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 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 […] |
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