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Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 5.8% Origin: Esquelbec, Nord, France Website: www.brasseriethiriez.com Brasserie Thiriez Daniel Thiriez seems incapable of making uninteresting beer: everything I’ve tasted from his self-named brewery has had something to say for itself as well as being consistently of high quality. The brewery is in the historic beer country of French […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 5.6% Origin: Masham, North Yorkshire, England Website: www.theakstons.co.uk Theakston Old Peculier Theakston Old Peculier is a stalwart icon of British real ale. Back in the 1970s it was the sort of beer enthusiasts discussed in hushed and reverential tones, with a pedigree dating back to the 1890s, appreciated not […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 7.3% Origin: Santa Rosa, California, USA Website: www.russianriverbrewing.com Russian River Temptation Barrel Aged Ale My first encounter with a US brewpub was a fortuitous one. When I first crossed the Atlantic some years back, it was to San Francisco, but rather than head straight for the city we first […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 10% Origin: Roeselare, Oost Vlaanderen Website: www.rodenbach.be Rodenbach Vin de Céréale Rodenbach of Roeselare is a Belgian beer icon, one of the key breweries celebrated by Michael Jackson back in the 1980s when he first introduced the country’s remarkable beer culture to the wider world. It’s renowned then as […] Top Tastings 2009 CAMRA North London tasting 2010 A shorter version of this review was first published in BEER February 2010 as part of a piece about beers to taste with chocolate. For more beers tasted with chocolate, see Hoggleys Solstice Stout. Also known as IPA in the USA, under which name it was reviewed. […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 10% Origin: San Marcos, California, USA Website: www.portbrewing.com Port Old Viscosity Ale Port Brewing has its origins in the Pizza Port restaurant founded by Vince and Gina Marsaglia at Solana Beach, California, one of the pioneers of the craft-beer-and-pizza formula now found throughout the USA. The original Pizza Port […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 9.4% Origin: Fort Bragg, California, USA Website: www.northcoastbrewing.com North Coast Brother Thelonious Belgian style abbey ale There are multiple puns in the name and marketing of Brother Thelonious, a Belgian-inspired strong abbey ale that is indeed connected to a monk. The monk in question is, however, not […] Top Tastings 2009, Beer sellers: Landbierparadies ABV: 5.2% Origin: Forchheim, Franken/Bayern, Germany Neder Schwarze Anna Franconia is still the secret garden of beer appreciation. There are about 300 breweries in the three districts that make up modern day Franconia, a culturally and historically distinct region of what’s now the German “Land” of Bavaria. […] |
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