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Shepherd Neame Double Stout Top Tastings 2012 (India Pale Ale) ABV: 5.2% and 6.1% Origin: Faversham, Kent, England Website: www.shepherd-neame.co.uk When I was rediscovering beer back in the mid-1990s, one of my favourites was bottle conditioned Shepherd Neame Spitfire, regularly available in my local supermarket. Its classic combination of rich malts and moist, […] Russian River Pliny the Elder Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 8% Origin: Santa Rosa, California, USA Website: www.russianriverbrewing.com Russian River brewer Vinnie Cilurzo is generally credited with creating the Double IPA as a commercial beer style. Inaugural IPA, the first beer Vinnie brewed professionally, was so named as it launched his first brewing venture, […] Rodenbach Grand Cru Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 6% Origin: Roeselare, Oost-Vlaanderen Website: www.palm.be Beer writers and experts tend to have different drinking habits from ordinary beer drinkers. To keep ourselves well informed and authoritative, we’re usually tasting beers we haven’t tried before, and find ourselves passing on the popular and familiar by. In […] Panil Barriquée Sour Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 8% Origin: Torrechiara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Website: www.panilbeer.com Italian craft brewers and drinkers seem to have taken easily to perceiving beer through a similar mindset to that used for wine. It’s an artisanal product with a definite provenance, served with food from attractive 750ml bottles. Some of […] Oskar Blues Old Chub Scotch Ale Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 8% Origin: Longmont, Colorado, USA Website: www.oskarblues.com 2012’s annual British Guild of Beer Writers reception on the eve of the Great British Beer Festival could almost have been tailor made to antagonise some of the more purist supporters of the festival itself – […] Maximus Stout 6 Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 6% Origin: Utrecht, Netherlands Website: www.brouwerijmaximus.nl My first visit to the Borefts Bierfestival at De Molen brewery in Bodegraven in September afforded me a chance to hang out in Utrecht for the first time in a few years – and unsurprisingly I kept bumping into beer […] Le Brewery Odo Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 6.6% Origin: Joué du Bois, Orne, France Website: www.le-brewery.com I know of several expatriate Brits involved with small breweries in France – an interesting country for beer at the moment as a new international craft brewing sensibility is supplementing and reinventing established regional styles. Steve Skews […] Knee Deep Simtra Triple India Pale Ale Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 11.3% Origin: Lincoln, California, USA Website: kneedeepbrewing.com I asked the staff of small but outstanding specialist drinks shop Healthy Spirits, in San Francisco’s Duboce Triangle, for a recommendation of a new West Coast IPA to try and was pointed to this example […] |
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