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Top tastings 2009
ABV: 8.1% Origin: Bodegraven, Zuid Holland, Netherlands Website: www.brouwerijdemolen.nl
De Molen Bloed, Zweet en Tranen
Menno Olivier’s De Molen (“the mill”) brewery is in a 17th century windmill called De Ardkuif beside the Oude Rijn river bang in the middle of the Groene Hart, the rural “green heart” within the […]
Top Tastings 2009 The beer also featured in BEER May 2011 as part of a piece on the influence of different malts on beer flavour. See additional text below, and to read about other beers featured see Vale Black Swan.
ABV: 4.8% Origin: Market Deeping, Lincolnshire Website: www.hopshacklebrewery.co.uk
Hopshackle
Nigel Wright’s Hopshackle […]
Top Tastings 2009
A shorter version of this piece originally appeared in BEER May 2009 as one of several milds for May.
ABV: 4.4% Origin: Cleobury Mortimer, Worcestershire, England Website: www.hobsons-brewery.co.uk
Hobsons Postman's Knock
May is the month to celebrate beers which in the words of the promotional materials for CAMRA’s endangered beer […]
Top Tastings 2009, Beer sellers: The Beermongers
ABV: 10% Origin: Portland, Oregon, USA Website: www.hairofthedog.com
Hair of the Dog Adam
Hair of the Dog, founded in 1993 by Alan Sprints, is now known as one of the most adventurous and consistently high-hitting breweries in the craft brewing heartland of the Pacific Northwest. […]
Top Tastings 2009, Beer Sellers: Landbierparadies, Nürnberg
ABV: 5% Origin: Huppendorf, Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: www.huppendorfer-bier.de
Grasser Hupperdorfer Bier
Vollbier, “full beer”, is a tax category that accounts for the vast majority of German beers and rarely appears on labels, except in Franconia where it’s become specialised to full-bodied standard strength lagers that come […]
Top Tastings 2009
ABV: 9 per cent Origin: Erpe-Mere, Oost Vlaanderen Website: www.glazentoren.be
Glazen Toren Saison d'Erpe-Mere
You’d expect something special from the “glass tower”, a relatively young micro tucked away in the hilly country of the so-called “Flemish Ardennes” — it was co-founded by beer writer and leading Belgian beer expert Jef […]
Note this post has been superceded. It has been left here for archival reasons. Read a more complete and up-to-date post about this beer.
Top Tastings 2009 CAMRA North London tasting 2010
ABV: 8% Origin: Chiswick, London, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk
Note: tasting notes on further vintages can be found after the main article.
Top Tastings 2009
ABV: 8% Origin: Esen, West Vlaanderen Website: www.dedollebrouwers.be
De Dolle Brouwers Cosmos Porter
This experimental brew divides opinion. I’ve spoken to several people who have hated it, and even its brewer, Kris Herteleer, seemed in two minds about it when serving it to the public at the 2009 Zythos beer […]
Top Tastings 2009
ABV: 9% Origin: Milton, Delaware, USA Website: www.dogfish.com
Dogfish Head 90 minute Imperial IPA
From a modest British session India Pale Ale (see previous posting) to an all-cylinders-firing modern North American twist on the style.
Dogfish Head started in 1995 as the first brewpub in Delaware, in Reheboth Beach, in […]
Top Tastings 2009.
ABV: 4.5% Origin: Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England
This tiny brewery was set up in 1992 in the Concertina Band Club at Mexborough, near Doncaster, essentially to brew beer for the club, though occasionally its beers seep out to beer festivals, especially since Roger Protz featured this particular beer in his 300 Beers […]
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