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Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook, January 2009. ABV: 5.8% Origin: Roncole Verdi, Emili-Romagna, Italy Website: www.birrificiodelducato.com Birrificio del Ducato Nuova Mattina (New Morning) I first encountered this unusual saison-style Italian craft brew, “dry herbed” with ginger, green and red pepper, coriander and chamomile, on draught at the Pigs […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook, January 2009. ABV: 4.5% Origin: Sunderland, England Website: www.durhambrewery.com Darwin Brewery This brewery specialising in historical recreations has an interesting history itself. It began in 1994 as a teaching facility at Brewlab, the University of Sunderland’s well reputed brewing school, initially expanding to take […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was first published on facebook January 2009. ABV: 6.8% Origin: Piozzo, Piemonte, Italia Website: www.baladin.it Baladin Nora Birra Egizia The restlessly creative Teo Musso is one of the pioneers of the new wave of Italian craft brewers: his brewpub Baladin dates back to 1996 and originally showed […] Great British Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 3.5% Origin: Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands Website: www.brouwerijdemolen.nl Revelation Cat Whole Milk Mild This is a beer deserving of the description ‘eclectic’: a cross between two traditional and somewhat neglected English beer styles, mild and milk stout, commissioned by an Italian and brewed by a Dutchman. The idea […] Great British Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 12.5% Origin: San Marcos, California, USA Website: www.portbrewing.com Port Older Viscosity Port Brewing is one of the leading lights of West Coast craft brewing, particularly for the Lost Abbey series of special beers created by its head brewer Tomme Arthur. At GBBF, Older Viscosity was labelled a […] Great British Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 7.7% Origin: London W4, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk Fuller's Brewer's Reserve No 2 Limited Edition Oak Aged Ale The Brewer’s Reserve series is Fuller’s head brewer John Keeling’s limited edition of wood aged beers, starting with a Glenmorangie whisky cask version in 2008. The second edition uses the […] Great British Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 3.7% Origin: Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England Website: http://www.rebellionbeer.co.uk/ Rebellion IPA Rebellion, founded in 1993 and now a decently sized and highly respected micro, has kept the flag flying for brewing in the Thamesside town of Marlow since Whitbread closed the historic Wethereds brewery –its founders originally hoped it […] Great British Beer Festival 2010 London Beer Tastings 2011: Revised October 2011. Hells Lager was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers. ABV: 4.8% Origin: London NW5, England Website: http://www.camdentownbrewery.com/ Camden Town Brewery Australian-born Jasper Cuppaidge owns the […] Great British Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 2.8% Origin: London E10, England Website: www.brodiesbeers.co.uk Brodie’s, the in house brewery at the William IV pub in east London, continues to impress with an imaginative range of beers including plenty of the dark stff. Served from cask stillage at the British Guild of Beer Writers’ pre-GBBF reception at […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was first published on facebook January 2009. ABV: 9% Origin: New York City, New York, USA Website: www.brooklynbrewery.com Brooklyn Local 1 Celebrity brewer Garrett Oliver of the influential Brooklyn brewery has excelled himself with this stylishly bottled and bottle conditioned premium treat, and New Yorkers should think […] |
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