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From the archive: First published in the Oxford Bottled Beer Database May 2002. Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 7% Origin: Gussignies, Nord, France Bailleux Cuvée des Jonquilles ‘Daffodil harvest’, a bottle-conditioned blond ale with a suitably floral label full of the cheer of spring, comes from an artisanal brewery at the Baron […] Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 7% Origin: Trumilly, Oise (Picardie), France Website: www.st-rieul.com St Rieul bière brune sur lie avec sa medaille d'argent de Concours Général d'Agricole, Paris 2011 The single frog on the label of these impressive beers from northern France refers to a sweet little parable about standing out from […] Tri Martolod Blonde Artisanale Beer sellers: Cave à bulles ABV: 4.6% Origin: Konk Kerne, Penn-ar-Bed (Breizh), France Website: www.trimartolod.fr One of a cluster of small breweries in Celtic Brittany, Tri Martolod — or ‘Three Sailors’, a reference to a Breton folk song — was founded in 1999 in the fashionable […] 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 […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.4% Origin: Plzeň, Plzeňský kraj, Czech Republic Website: www.prazdroj.cz Plzeňský Prazdroj's head brewer Václav Berka serves up his Kvasnicový at the European Beer Bloggers Conference, London, May 2011. Pic: Reuben Gray, www.taleofale.com The second word in the name of this famous Bohemian brewery […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011 ABV: 8.15% Origin: Stabio, Ticino, Switzerland Website: www.badattitude.ch Birrificio Ticinese Bad Attitude Two Penny Porter Yes, another brewer with a bad attitude, this time explicity proclaimed, and hailing from well-behaved Switzerland, though from the Italian speaking region, within a stone’s throw of the Italian border. […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011 ABV: 8.2% Origin: Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland Website: http://www.innisandgunn.com/ Innis & Gunn Oak Aged Beer Scotland’s Innis & Gunn specialises in oak ageing beer — “like no other beer”, they’ve been known to claim rather inaccurately, although their take on the process is unusual. It came about when […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.5% Origin: Nynäshamn, Södermanland, Sweden Website: www.nyab.se Nynäshamns Bedarö Bitter One of the highlights of the Beer Bloggers Conference was a Night of Many Beers hosted by Camden Town brewery, most of which I spent hovering by the table of Swedish and Italian […] Toer de Geuze 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 6% Origin: Lembeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.boon.be Traditional lambic crocks and samples at Boon, Lembeek On very rare occasions I taste a beer that’s so extraordinary it sends my rating system off the scale, and this, sampled direct from one of the gigantic oak […] |
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