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Anchor Brewing Company, Mariposa Street, San Francisco, California 94107 Top Tastings 2012 (Porter) ABV: 6%, 5.6% and 5% Origin: San Francisco, California, USA Website: www.anchorbrewing.com Despite numerous visits to San Francisco in recent years I hadn’t yet got round to visiting the famous Anchor brewery – arguably the motherlode of the current craft […] Adnams Southwold Bitter in minicasks. Pic: Adnams. Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 3.7% Origin: Southwold, Suffolk, England Website: adnams.co.uk I’ve long regarded Adnams Southwold Bitter as one of the benchmark examples of a traditional English cask bitter, an outstanding demonstration of the genius of the best old estabished British breweries for achieving depth and […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 ABV: 7% Origin: Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland Website: www.williamsbrosbrew.com Williams Brothers Brewery Alloa is the largest town in Clackmannanshire, central Scotland – once the smallest Scottish county in the days when the country still had them. A hundred years ago the town ranked alongside Burton upon Trent, Edinburgh, London […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 ABV: 7.4%, 9.2% and 10.5% Origin: Huddersfield, Kirklees, England Website: www.magicrockbrewing.com Welcome to the beer circus: poster at Magic Rock brewery, Huddersfield. The last few years have seen not just the relentless growth of microbrewing in the UK but also the emergence of new approaches that challenge the […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 6.8% Origin: Manchester, England Website: www.marblebeers.co.uk Marble/Emelisse Earl Grey IPA. Pic: The Ormskirk Baron, www.theormskirkbaron.com. A serious looking 750ml bottle from Manchester’s marvellous Marble brewery can usually be relied upon to contain something at least interesting, but they’ve excelled themselves with Marble Earl […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 ABV: 6.1% Origin: Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England Website: www.roosters.co.uk Roosters Brewery Long before many of the current crop of in-yer-face British “craft” brewers had even reached legal drinking age, Roosters Brewery was challenging a market drenched in traditional brown bitters with the complex and distinctive aromas and flavours […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 ABV: 3.8% and 4.4% Origin: Leeds, England Website: www.leedsbrewery.co.uk Leeds Pale The closure and demolition of an historic brewery is always a loss in economic and heritage terms and, depending on how embedded it was in the life of its surroundings, a potential loss to local culture too. […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 Top Tastings 2012 (Siberia) ABV: 3.5% and 5.9% Origin: Ilkley, Bradford, England Website: www.ilkleybrewery.co.uk Ilkley Mary Jane It’s a generational thing, not a Yorkshire thing. When I heard that the Ilkley brewery’s flagship cask ale goes by the name of Mary Jane, it made perfect sense. The […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 Birra del Borgo Equilibrista ABV: 10.9% Origin: Borgorose, Latium, Italy Website: www.birradelborgo.it Even the most experienced beer taster ultimately comes up against subjective judgement and hazy guesses about brewers’ intentions when evaluating beers, particularly those that push the envelope of categories. Plenty of professionals struggle with lambics and […] Top Tastings 2012 (Kroužkovaný ležák 12°) ABV: 5% and 4.7% Origin: České Budějovice, Jihočeský kraj, Czech Republic Website: www.budejovickybudvar.cz Budějovický Budvar kroužkovaný ležák 12° straight from the conditioning tank — note security device on glass. These are the unfiltered, unpasteurised draught versions of Budvar’s flagship golden lager (labelled Budvar Czech Imported Lager in […] |
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