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Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
Accredited Beer Sommelier
Writer of "Probably the best book about beer in London" - Londonist
"A necessity if you're a beer geek travelling to London town" - Beer Advocate
"A joy to read" - Roger Protz
"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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National Winter Ales Festival 2010
ABV: 4.8% Origin: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England Website: www.leedsbrewery.co.uk
Leeds Midnight Bell
Midnight Bell is a fine and rich dark mild named in honour of its brewery’s showcase pub in Leeds’ round foundry development. The brewery, opened in 2007, is currently the only independent in the city, with […]
Top Tastings 2009
ABV: 4.9% Origin: Glasgow, Scotland Website: www.westbeer.com
West
For four decades cask ale has been the focus of the British beer consumer movement, and the technical specifications for its production and dispense have become embedded in the ideology of beer appreciation as if they’re judgements of value and quality, with […]
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 […]
Top Tastings 2009
ABV: 10% Origin: Innerleithen, Scottish Borders, Scotland Website: www.traquair.co.uk
Traquair House by James McIntosh Patrick, National Galleries of Scotland
Traquair House is the oldest inhabited stately home in Scotland and a new wave craft brewer ahead of its time. In 1965, several years before the launch of CAMRA, the rediscovery […]
Top Tastings 2009
ABV: 11% Origin: Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire, England Website: www.thornbridgebrewery.co.uk
Thornbridge is currently one of the most exciting and innovative breweries in Britain, complimenting a range of high quality cask ales with a selection of bottled specialities including fine India Pale Ales and Imperial Stouts and the unclassifiable dark honey beer Bracia. It […]
Top Tastings 2009
ABV: 5.6% Origin: Masham, North Yorkshire, England Website: www.theakstons.co.uk
Theakston Old Peculier
Theakston Old Peculier is a stalwart icon of British real ale. Back in the 1970s it was the sort of beer enthusiasts discussed in hushed and reverential tones, with a pedigree dating back to the 1890s, appreciated not […]
Top Tastings 2009 CAMRA North London tasting 2010
A shorter version of this review was first published in BEER February 2010 as part of a piece about beers to taste with chocolate. For more beers tasted with chocolate, see Hoggleys Solstice Stout.
Also known as IPA in the USA, under which name it was reviewed.
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Beer sellers: Scottish Real Ale Shop Top Tastings 2009 (bottled 2007), Top Tastings 2011 (draught 2010)
ABV: 10% Origin: Quoyloo, Orkney, Scotland Website: www.orkneybrewery.co.uk
Orkney Dark Island Reserve
One of Britain’s northernmost breweries and one of Scotland’s strong collection of distinctive micros, Orkney was founded in a derelict schoolhouse by an Englishman […]
Top Tastings 2009 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 see Vale Black Swan.
ABV: 4.8% Origin: Market Deeping, Lincolnshire Website: www.hopshacklebrewery.co.uk
Hopshackle
Nigel Wright’s Hopshackle […]
Top Tastings 2009
A shorter version of this piece originally appeared in BEER May 2009 as one of several milds for May.
ABV: 4.4% Origin: Cleobury Mortimer, Worcestershire, England Website: www.hobsons-brewery.co.uk
Hobsons Postman's Knock
May is the month to celebrate beers which in the words of the promotional materials for CAMRA’s endangered beer […]
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