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Beer sellers: Westholme Store ABV: 5% Origin: Yattendon, West Berkshire, England Website: www.wbbrew.com West Berkshire Dr Hexter's Healer From the image on the label, you might guess that Dr Hexter was some eccentric Victorian quack, but he turns out to be a more contemporary local character — the landlord of a pub in […] Beer sellers: Scottish Real Ale Shop; Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4% Origin: Larbert, Falkirk, Scotland Website www.trystbrewery.co.uk Tryst Drovers 80/- Tryst is a strong candidate for the list of the most underrated breweries in the UK — I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad beer from this micro just outside Falkirk. […] Beer sellers: Scottish Real Ale Shop ABV: 4.5% Origin: Throsk, Stirling, Scotland Website: www.traditionalscottishales.com, www.theladeinn.com Traditional Scottish Ales Lade Inn LadeBack In 2003, the owners of the delightful Lade Inn in the Trossachs near Callander decided to add to the pub’s attractions by opening a microbrewery in an outbuilding, developing a range of […] Beer sellers: Scottish Real Ale Shop ABV: 4.5% Origin: Pitlochry, Perth & Kinross, Scotland Website: www.moulininn.co.uk Moulin Brewery Real Ales Special Brews From one of Scotland’s (and the UK’s) smallest and most scenically situtated breweries comes this bottle conditioned rarity in an intriguingly screen printed bottle. It’s from the village of Moulin, actually […] Beer sellers: Scottish Real Ale Shop ABV: 6% Origin: Swannay, Orkney, Scotland Website: www.highlandbrewingcompany.co.uk Highland (Swannay) Orkney Blast One of Britain’s most northerly breweries and one of its more ambitious, the Highland Brewing Company’s Swannay Brewery was established by Rob Hill, formerly with the Orkney Brewery, originally as a beer firm that contracted […] Great British Beer Festival 2011 ABV: 4.5% Origin: Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England Website: www.littlevalleybrewery.co.uk Little Valley Organic Hebden's Wheat My day of sampling British cask beers at this year’s Great British Beer Festival turned out to be rather lacklustre, but one pleasant surprise was this tasty organic Belgian-style wheat beer from the […] Great British Beer Festival 2011 London beer tastings 2011 ABV: 9% Origin: London W4, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk Brewer's Reserve No 3 maturing in whisky barrels in a spare corner of the Fuller's brewery, London W4, January 2011 I make no apologies for choosing a release of Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve as one of […] William Worthington Red Shield European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011 ABV: 4.2% Origin: Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England Website: www.molsoncoors.co.uk Legendary former Bass brewer Steve Wellington, who still presides over the microbrewery at what is now the Coors Visitor Centre in Burton though is set to retire this summer, developed this […] |
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