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Des de Moor
Best beer and travel writing award 2015, 2011 -- British Guild of Beer Writers Awards
Accredited Beer Sommelier
Writer of "Probably the best book about beer in London" - Londonist
"A necessity if you're a beer geek travelling to London town" - Beer Advocate
"A joy to read" - Roger Protz
"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
Des de Moor

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Pen-Lon Cottage Torwen

ABV: 4.5% Origin: Llanarth, Ceredigion, Cymru Website: www.penlon.biz

This is an expanded review of a beer that featured as a fruit beer on the bottled beer review page in the August 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is also available in […]

Traquair House Traquair 2010

ABV: 10% Origin: Innerleithen, Scottish Borders Website: www.traquair.co.uk

Traquair 2010

An extended review of a beer featured as a strong and special beer on the bottled beer review page in the November 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine […]

Wye Valley Dorothy Goodbody’s Imperial Stout

ABV: 7% Origin: Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire, England Website: www.wyevalleybrewery.co.uk

Wye Valley Dorothy Goodbody's Imperial Stout

An extended review of a beer featured as a strong and special beer on the bottled beer review page in the November 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who […]

Samuel Smith’s Yorkshire Stingo

Top Tastings 2010

ABV: 9% Origin: Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England Website: www.samuelsmithsbrewery.co.uk

Samuel Smith Yorkshire Stingo

An extended review of a beer featured as a strong and special beer on the bottled beer review page in the November 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view […]

Moor Old Freddy Walker and JJJ IPA

Top Tastings 2010 (JJJ IPA)

ABV: 7.5% and 9.5% Origin: Pitney, Somerset, Engand Website: www.moorbeer.co.uk

An extended review of a beeer featured as a strong and special beer on the bottled beer review page in the November 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. […]

Marble Decadence and Special

ABV: 8.7% and 10.7% Origin: Manchester, England Website: www.marblebeers.co.uk

An extended review of a beer featured as a strong and special beer on the bottled beer review page in the November 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is additionally available in […]

Tröegs Troegenator Doublebock Beer

Great American Beer Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010

ABV: 8.2% Origin: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA Website: http://www.troegs.com

Tröegs Troegenator Doublebock Beer

Most of the more celebrated American craft brews are warm fermented ales, but here’s an East Coast microbrewer making a very convincing fist of an original European extreme lager style, the Doppelbock. The […]

SweetWater Dank Tank Magnum IP

Great American Beer Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010

ABV: 9% Origin: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Website: http://www.sweetwaterbrew.com

SweetWater Dank Tank Magnum IP Imperial Pilsner

If the beers I tried from below the Mason-Dixon Line at the GABF are anything to go by, the craft breweries of the Deep South are quickly catching up with […]

Maui CoCoNut PorTeR

Great American Beer Festival 2010

ABV: 5.7% Origin: Lahaina, Hawaii, USA Website: http://www.mauibrewingco.com

Maui CoCoNut PorTeR

I’ d been wanting to try this celebrated speciality beer since I met its brewer, the charming Garrett W Marrero, at the Rake in London earlier this year, when he was over to brew a cask version […]

Foothills Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout 2009

Great American Beer Festival 2010

ABV: 9.75% Origin: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA Website: www.foothillsbrewing.com

Foothills Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout

If this beer is anything to go by, craft brewing in the US has gone south with a vengeance. A small production brewpub with a penchant for cask ale and a nifty line in […]