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Great American Beer Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 7.5% Origin: Tampa, Florida, USA Website: www.cigarcitybrewing.com Cigar City Humidor Series As the crowds poured into the Colorado Convention Centre on the opening night of the Great American Beer Festival, the queues soon began to form at some predictable locations, such as Lost Abbey […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 8.5% Origin: Kansas City, Missouri, USA Website: www.boulevard.com Boulevard Smokestack Series Saison Brett Boulevard, founded by John Macdonald on Kansas City’s historic Southwest Boulevard in 1989, now claims to be the biggest speciality brewer in the Mid-West and the second largest brewer of any type in Missouri. […] Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7.7% Origin: Escondido, California, USA Website: www.stonebrew.com Stone Ruination IPA. With lots of hops. Stone is one of the most prominent and successful of new generation Californian micros, thanks to the quality of its beers and to a risky and slightly macho but ultimately rather […] Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7.7% Origin: Santa Rosa, California, USA Website: www.russianriverbrewing.com Russian River Damnation Golden Ale This was the first Belgian-inspired bottle conditioned beer I tried from one of California’s leading micros, a strong golden ale broadly in the style of Duvel that’s claimed three GABF medals so […] Beer sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 6.7% Origin: San Marcos, California, USA Website: www.lostabbey.com Port The Lost Abbey Red Barn Ale This is one of Port’s Lost Abbey range of Belgian-style ales, though it began life as a plain Port beer, SPF45. Red Barn pays tribute to a rustic saison, though […] Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 9% Origin: Fort Bragg, California, USA Website: www.northcoastbrewing.com North Coast Old Rasputin Imperial Russian Stout “Сердечный друг не родится вдруг,” reads the Russian inscription on the label of this multi-award winning Imperial Stout named after the notorious associate of the last Russian tsarina — “A […] Beer sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7% Origin: Healdsburg, California, USA Website: http://www.bearrepublic.com/ Bear Republic Racer 5 India Pale Ale The fame of Northern California’s Sonoma County is now second only to neighbouring Napa among wine lovers, but the area round Healdsburg was once hop growing country, a fact which father […] Beer sellers: Landbierparadies ABV: 4.9% Origin: Oberailsfeld, Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: http://www.held-braeu.de/ Held-Bräu, Oberailsfeld One of many small rural Franconian brewpubs, with a history dating back to 1680, “Hero Brew” is now run by Helmut Polster and his family. They turn out some seriously good stuff. The malty accent of “Helles” beers is more […] Beer Sellers: Landbierparadies, Nürnberg ABV: 5.1% Origin: Forchheim, Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: www.brauerei-hebendanz.de Hebendanz Edel Pils Hebendanz is one of several breweries and brewpubs in the large Franconian town and former royal city of Forchheim, home to the celebrated Annafest. It’s been a family business since 1579 and is now in the capable hands […] Beer sellers: Landbierparadies, Nürnberg. ABV: 5.5% Origin: Höchstadt an der Aisch, Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: www.Brauerei-Blauer-Loewe.de Brauerei Blauer Löwe Another of those Franconian brewpubs with a long, long history, Blauer Löwe (Blue Lion) opened in 1633 as one of several breweries in Höchstadt to replace the old town brewery, destroyed during the Swedish invasion […] |
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