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Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 10.1% Origin: London SE1, England Website: www.thekernelbrewery.com The Kernel Brewery Beers from the Kernel, surely London’s second world class brewery, loomed large in my drinking in 2011. I admit I was a bit late in catching up on them – my first encounter was in January when I visited […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 13% Origin: Chicago, Illinois, USA Website: www.gooseisland.com Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout I’ve been a fan of Chicago’s Goose Island beers ever since receiving some review samples of their pale ales when they were first imported to the UK (see Goose Island Honker’s Ale), and their pioneering […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 3.8% Origin: Cairndow, Argyll & Bute, Scotland Website: www.fyneales.com Fyne Ales Jarl Cask golden ales are now as ubiquitous in Britain as traditional bitter, and most, it’s sad to say, make for relatively bland, if refreshing, drinking. One of the ways some of them are marking themselves out is […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 8.5% Origin: Placentia, California, USA Website: www.thebruery.com The Bruery Saison Rue The Bruery gets its name from a pun on the family name of founder Patrick Rue, and was first employed to designate his home brewing kit during his days as a law student. It was ported over when, […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 6.2% Origin: Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand Website: epicbeer.com, www.steambrewing.co.nz Steam / Epic Mayhem, on what's clearly a topless beach. New Zealand, or Aotearoa if you prefer, is the one of the latest countries to have come to the attention of international beer fans for its vibrant new […] Top Tastings 2011, Beer sellers: The Beermongers ABV: 5.1% Origin: Hood River, Oregon, USA Website: www.fullsailbrewing.com Full Sail Session Lager While beer geeks are bedazzled by the extremities of American brewing, it’s important to remember that the pheonomenal growth of the craft beer sector in the USA is mainly based not on […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 5.7% Origin: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Website: cub.com.au Tooth's (now Carlton United) Sheaf Stout apparently kept these strapping Aussie Rules players fit. Those were the days. I discovered a plain looking 750ml bottle of this southern hemisphere classic, which I’ve never seen on sale in the UK, in […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.6% Origin: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany Website: www.gose.de Bayerischer Bahnhof Gose Original Leipziger Bier Spezialität Gose remains one of the world’s most neglected historic beer styles, perhaps because the handful of breweries producing it remain small craft affairs and until recently it’s rarely been available outside its Saxon heartland. Michael […] Top Tastings 2011, Beer sellers: The Beermongers ABV: 9% Origin: Bend, Oregon, USA Website: www.bendbrewingco.com Bend Hop-Head Imperial India Pale Ale My trip to one of the US’s top craft beer cities, Portland, Oregon, in Autumn 2011 could easily have accounted for half my Top Tastings of the year, but to spread […] |
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