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This beer featured in BEER August 2009 as a selection from the new Good Bottled Beer Guide. ABV: 7% Origin: Market Deeping, Lincolnshire Website: www.hopshacklebrewery.co.uk Hopshackle This is one of several beers I encountered during 2009 from Nigel Wright’s excellent Hopshackle Brewery: see my review of Historic Porter for more background. Double Momentum, […] 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 […] A shorter version of this review was first published in BEER August 2008 as part of a piece about beers for summer outdoor drinking. ABV: 4% Origin: Tyndyrn, Sir Fynwy, Cymru Website: www.meadowfarm.org.uk, www.kingstonebrewery.co.uk Kingstone Gold Originally established in 2005 at Kinsons Farm, Gwenffrwd (Whitebrook) nearby, this small brewery moved two years later […] 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 […] |
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