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Great British Beer Festival Real Ale in a Bottle Bar 2006; also featured as an ale to win lager drinkers in BEER February 2009.
NOTE: This beer was originally briefly reviewed under an earlier name, Double Champion.
ABV: 4% Origin: Clyst St Lawrence, Devon, England Website: www.ohanlonsbeer.com
O'Hanlon's Goldblade
This is one of […]
Pré-ZBF Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 (Highland)
ABV: 8.8% Origin: Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire, England Website: www.thornbridgebrewery.co.uk
Thornbridge Hall
Thornbridge are emerging as a world class new brewery, offering a solid range of excellent everyday beers but also knowing how to push at the boundaries of style while still retaining good taste and balance. Witness […]
Rake Welsh Beer Festival February 2010
ABV: 4.4% Origin: Y Fenni, Sir Fynwy, Cymru Website: http://www.tudorbrewery.co.uk/
The Blorenge. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jemwilliams/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
I must confess I’d not heard of this brewery, one of a number of new Welsh micros, and chose the beer from the cask selection at the Rake festival […]
Rake Welsh Beer Festival February 2010 Top Tastings 2010
ABV: 6.5% Origin: Aberhonddu, Powys, Cymru Website: www.breconshirebrewery.com
Breconshire Ysprid y Ddraig
Breconshire Brewery under the leadership of brewer Justin “Buster” Grant has become one of the best breweries in Wales, mixing innovation with consistency and a sense of tradition and place. Buster is […]
ABV: 4.6% and 4.7% Origin: Ansley, Warwickshire, England Website: www.tunnelbrewery.co.uk
Originally published in BEER, February 2007, as part of a review featuring reader recommended beers. For more, see previous post.
Tunnel Trade Winds and Sweet Parish Ale
The Tunnel Brewery at the Lord Nelson Inn at Ansley, near Nuneaton in one of the […]
ABV: 6% and 7% Origin: Downton, Wiltshire, England Website: http://www.hampshirebrewery.com/
Originally published in BEER, February 2007
CAMRA North London tasting February 2010 (IPA only)
Downton Chimera Dark Delight and India Pale Ale
As sharp-eyed readers will have noticed, this page has for some time carried an open invitation for beer suggestions by email, […]
ABV: 3.9% Origin: Liverpool, Merseyside, England Website: http://www.wappingbeers.co.uk
Originally published in BEER October 2007 as part of a review of that year’s Champion Bottle Conditioned Beer of Britain winners. For more see previous posts.
Wapping Baltic Gold
One beer bucked the dark trend among this year’s medallists, and from an unfamiliar name that […]
ABV: 4.6% Origin: Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire, England Website www.wyevalleybrewery.co.uk
Originally published in BEER October 2007 as part of a review of that year’s Champion Bottle Conditioned Beer of Britain winners. For more see previous posts.
Wye Valley Dorothy Goodbody's Wholesome Stout
Wye Valley is another name well-known to fans of British RAIB, especially […]
ABV: 4.5% Origin: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England Website www.titanicbrewery.co.uk
Originally published in BEER October 2007 as part of a review of that year’s Champion Bottle Conditioned Beer of Britain winners. For more see previous post.
CAMRA North London tasting February 2010
Titanic Stout
With its joint silver medal, Titanic Stout secured a place […]
ABV: 4.8% Origin: Whimple, Devon, England Website www.ohanlons.co.uk
Originally published in BEER October 2007
O'Hanlon's Original Port Stout
Lovers of the darker side of brewing had cause to smile at the results of this year’s Champion Beer of Britain competition – not only did a dark mild emerge as supreme champion among the […]
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