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Originally published in What’s Brewing December 2004 Origin: Vorchdorf, Upper Austria ABV: 14 per cent Buy from Specialist suppliers Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier Samichlaus, an ideal sipping beer for the festive season, used to be the world’s strongest regularly brewed beer, and still claims to be its strongest lager. The name is Swiss […] Originally published in What’s Brewing November 2004 Note this beer may no longer be available in a bottle conditioned version. Origin: West Lydford, Somerset, England ABV: 7 per cent Buy from Specialist suppliers, regional Tesco Cottage Norman's Conquest Back in the mid-1990s this superb Somerset ale seemed poised to lead the bottled beer […] Originally published in What’s Brewing October 2004 Origin: Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England ABV: 4.5 per cent Buy from Specialist suppliers, brewery’s pubs, regional Tesco Burton Bridge Burton Porter There is a certain irony in a great porter coming from Burton upon Trent. Porter originated in 18th century London and became the first […] Originally published in What’s Brewing September 2004 Origin: St Austell, Cornwall, England ABV: 4.8 per cent Buy from Supermarkets, brewery’s pubs, mail order Website www.staustellbrewery.co.uk St Austell Clouded Yellow Clouded Yellow from St Austell, Cornwall’s only surviving traditional family brewery, must have one of Britain’s most evocative beer names. The clouded yellow is […] Originally published in What’s Brewing August 2004 Origin: Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium ABV: 5 per cent Buy from Specialist stockists Website www.cantillon.be Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus The lambic beers of the area in and around Brussels are the result of the ancient technique of “spontaneous” fermentation. Lambic brewers simply leave the wort exposed to […] Originally published in What’s Brewing July 2004 Origin: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany ABV: 4.8 per cent Buy from Specialist stockists Website www.frueh.de Früh Kölsch Kölsch is one of those delightfully idiosyncratic wrinkles of regional popular culture that makes life worth living: a beer that’s become part of the identity of a city. It might […] Originally published in What’s Brewing June 2004 Note this beer is no longer available in a bottle conditioned version, only in cask or filtered versions. Origin: Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England ABV: 6 per cent Freeminer Trafalgar India Pale Ale Freeminer Brewery, established in 1992 in the Royal Forest of Dean, is the source of […] Originally published in What’s Brewing May 2004. Origin: Shefford, Bedfordshire, England ABV: 4.3 per cent Buy from Specialist stockists, brewery’s pubs, direct sales (tel 01462 815080, www.banksandtaylor.com) Banks & Taylor Black Dragon Mild As I noted this time last year, real mild in a bottle must be one of Britain’s rarest styles. Historically, […] Originally published in What’s Brewing April 2004. Origin: Wandsworth, London, England (now transferred to Wells and Youngs, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England) ABV: 6.4 per cent Buy from most supermarkets Youngs Special London Ale Youngs’ historic brewery site in the heart of Wandsworth, currently slated for possible redevelopment, produces some highly distinctive bottled beers. Most […] Originally published in What’s Brewing January 2004 Origin: Horsham, Sussex, England (now brewed in a filtered bottled or cask version only by the owning brewery, Bath Ales, Bristol, England) ABV: 5 per cent Buy from local supermarkets and outlets, Bath Ales (0117 952 7580, www.bathales.com) Bath Ales Festivity Festivity, originated by northeast Somerset […] |
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