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London beer tastings 2011. For more Brodie’s beers , see previous post. For background to these tastings see the review of Amarilla. This beer featured in BEER August 2011 as part of a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London. Read about more bottled London beers. ABV: 3.8%, 4.3% and 10% Origin: Leyton, London […] Beer sellers: Westholme Store ABV: 4.2% Origin: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England Website: www.applefordbrewery.co.uk Appleford Brewery Co Based on a farm in rural Oxfordshire at Brightwell-cum-Sotwell near Wallingford, Appleford was founded in 2006 by Andrew Torrance, formerly an accountant at the Morland brewery which was bought and closed by Greene King. Beers tend to be […] Beer sellers: Westholme Store ABV: 5% Origin: Melmerby, North Yorkshire, England Website: www.hambletonales.co.uk Hambleton Nightmare Stout Nick Stafford’s Hambleton brewery is one of the most technically accomplished of British micros — and its founder is one of the more prominent characters on the beer scene. As commercial director of small brewers’ organisation SIBA, […] Beer sellers: Westholme Store ABV: 5% Origin: Horsham, West Sussex, England Hepworth Ridgeway Oxfordshire Blue Ridgeway, based at South Stoke just south of Wallingford in Oxfordshire, is a beer firm set up by former Brakspear brewer Peter Scholey when that historic company pulled out of brewing. The brand name references the prehistoric […] 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 […] |
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