|
||||||
|
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: 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. […] 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 […] |
||||||
