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Originally published in What’s Brewing September 2003 Origin: Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, England ABV: 4.5 per cent Buy from Booths supermarkets Batemans Booths Pour With Care Booths, a regional supermarket chain in northwest England, offers an imaginative range of bottled beers, including bottle conditioned ales, that puts its national competitors to shame. The range is driven by […] Originally published in What’s Brewing August 2003 Origin: Newport, Oregon, USA ABV: 6.5 per cent Buy from specialist shops, festivals, Only Fine Beer (tel 020 7265 8388, www.onlyfinebeer.co.uk) Rogue Brutal Bitter Rogue Ales, based in the Pacific Northwest, a heartland of US craft brewing, is one of the more established of the new […] Originally published in What’s Brewing July 2003 Origin: Horsham, Sussex, England ABV: 4.2 per cent Buy from supermarkets Coniston Bluebird Bitter When the directors of Brakspear cashed in their prime piece of Thames-side, not only their own brands were affected. Among the homeless were a number of contract brews, including supermarket-listed Coniston Bluebird, […] Originally published in What’s Brewing June 2004 Origin: Saint Sylvestre Cappel, Nord, France ABV: 8 per cent Buy from Specialist shops, beer festivals Saint-Sylvestre Bière Nouvelle The low-lying countryside of northern France is dotted with farmhouse breweries. Much of this area was formerly Flanders: Dutch personal and place names are everywhere and the […] Originally published in What’s Brewing May 2004. Note since publication the brewery has been taken over and closed by Fuller’s. Origin: Horndean, Hampshire, England ABV: 4.8 per cent Buy from Specialist stockists, brewery’s pubs George Gale Festival Mild Bottle-conditioned mild must be one of Britain’s rarest styles, perhaps because the low strength […] Originally published in What’s Brewing March 2003 Origin: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands ABV: 6.5 and 8 per cent Buy from Specialist suppliers, including Beer Barons (www.beerbarons.com) 't IJ Natte In a matter of years the Netherlands has gone from a Heineken-dominated desert to boasting one of the most interesting beer scenes in Europe, […] Originally published in What’s Brewing February 2003 Origin: Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England ABV: 6.6 per cent Buy from Tesco Exmoor Beast Wiveliscombe was once one of southwest England’s most important brewing towns, home to the Hancock brewery between 1807 and 1959. In 1979 a new independent company revived brewing at the Hancock site, and […] Originally published in What’s Brewing January 2003 Origin: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England ABV: 6.5 per cent Buy from most supermarkets Greene King Morland Hen's Tooth Back in 2000 Greene King, now one of Britain’s biggest independent brewers, acquired and closed the old-established family brewery, Morland of Abingdon. Among the brands it acquired […] Originally publsihed in What’s Brewing December 2002 Origin: West Hewish, Somerset, England ABV: 6 per cent Buy from some supermarkets, specialist beer shops, Wessex Craft Brewers (www.wessexcraftbeers.co.uk) RCH Ale Mary The revival of spiced beer brewing in Britain is one of the most interesting developments of recent years. Opening the spice cupboard for […] |
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