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Great British Beer Festival Real Ale in a Bottle Bar 2006
ABV: 5.5% Origin: St Austell, Cornwall, England Website: www.staustellbrewery.co.uk
St Austell Proper Job
This Cornish interpretation of an old-fashioned IPA is a little light in alcohol to be true to the style, but very approachable and tasty. Dedicated to the 32nd (Cornwall) […]
Great British Beer Festival Real Ale in a Bottle Bar 2006
ABV: 7.5% Origin: Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England Website: www.burtonbridgebrewery.co.uk
Burton Bridge Empire Pale Ale
This is one of the better British revivalist interpretations of the India Pale Ale style, from its spiritual homeland of Burton, brewed with Pipkin pale malt, invert […]
Great British Beer Festival Real Ale in a Bottle Bar 2006; also featured as an ale to win lager drinkers in BEER February 2009.
NOTE: This beer was originally briefly reviewed under an earlier name, Double Champion.
ABV: 4% Origin: Clyst St Lawrence, Devon, England Website: www.ohanlonsbeer.com
O'Hanlon's Goldblade
This is one of […]
First published in BEER July 2006 as part of a page about beers from the USA available in the UK. See previous post for more beers from the USA.
ABV: 5.6 per cent Origin: San Francisco, California, USA Website www.anchorbrewing.com
Anchor Porter
The Anchor brewery of San Francisco has a special significance both […]
First published in BEER July 2006 as part of a page about beers from the USA available in the UK. See previous post for more beers from the USA.
ABV: 4.3 per cent Origin: Chicago, Illinois, USA Website: www.gooseisland.com
Goose Island Honker's Ale
When marketing man John Hall opened his Goose Island brewpub […]
Originally published in BEER July 2006 as part of a page about beers from the USA available in the UK
ABV: 5.6 per cent Origin: Chico, California, USA Website: www.sierranevada.com
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
With 4 July imminent, I’m raising a toast to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness with a trio […]
Zythos Bierfestival 2010
ABV: 10% Origin: Écaussines d’Enghien, Hainaut, Wallonie Website: www.brasserieecaussines.be
Ultrabrune d'Écaussines
This new generation farmhouse brewery, founded in 2000 by Hugues and Isobel Van Poucke, tends to pop up more in the export market than in Belgium, so it was great to see them represented with a full range […]
Zythos Bierfestival 2010 Top Tastings 2010
ABV: 5% Origin: Beersel, Vlaams Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: http://www.oudbeersel.com
Oud Beersel brouwerij en geuzestekerij
Oud Beersel in the heart of Pajottenland’s lambic country was the brewery that unexpectedly came back. Originally named Vandervelden after the owning family, it closed its doors in 2002 when the last Vandervelden […]
Zythos Bierfestival 2010
ABV: 5.5% Origin: Baarle-Hertog, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen Website: www.dedochtervandekorenaar.be
De Dochter van de Korenaar Noblesse
De Dochter van de Korenaar — the Ear of Grain’s Daughter — is one of the remote outposts of Belgian brewing, in boundary boggling Baarle-Hertog, a tiny and irregularly shaped enclave of Belgium — less than […]
Pré-ZBF Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 (Highland)
ABV: 8.8% Origin: Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire, England Website: www.thornbridgebrewery.co.uk
Thornbridge Hall
Thornbridge are emerging as a world class new brewery, offering a solid range of excellent everyday beers but also knowing how to push at the boundaries of style while still retaining good taste and balance. Witness […]
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