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Jester King Le Petit Prince Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 2.9% Origin: Austin, Texas, USA Website: jesterkingbrewery.com It seems US craft beer drinkers, probably with some relief, are starting to realise there’s life below 5.5%. Session beer is one of the current buzz terms across the Atlantic, as brewers start to take up the […] Heineken Italia Moretti La Rossa Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 7.2% Origin: Milano, Lombardia, Italy Website: birramoretti.com Even before the current crop of craft brewers producing weird beers in designer bottles, Italy deserved at least a footnote in any survey of world brewing. Although more famous for its wines, there has long been a […] The unlikely handpump that lured the bloggerati — Greene King Old 5X on cask at the Great British Beer Festival, London, August 2012. Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 12% Origin: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Website: www.greeneking.co.uk It has to be admitted that these days the Greene King bar is rarely the hottest place […] Gueuze Girardin 1882 (Zwart etiket) Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 5% Origin: Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.brouwerijgirardin.com Girardin is arguably the most consistently and rootedly traditional of all the lambic breweries. The others were either founded since the self conscious revivalism of the 1970s or, like Cantillon, heavily influenced by it – or at […] Fuller’s Past Masters Old Burton Extra Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 7.3% Origin: London W4, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk Burton Ale is one of the great near-lost beer styles, and one that has intrigued certain beer writers (including myself) thanks in part to its difficult to explain contemporary obscurity. Most beer enthusiasts who read the […] FiftyFifty Eclipse Imperial Stout 2011, white wax version Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 9.5% Origin: Truckee, California, USA Website: www.fiftyfiftybrewing.com Craft brewers, particularly in the United States, are increasingly recognising the potential for “event beers” and limited editions in capturing the growing market of beer connoisseurs prepared to pay over the odds for something […] Deschutes / Hair of the Dog Conflux No 1 — Collage Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 11.6% Origin: Bend, Oregon, USA Website: www.deschutesbrewery.com, www.hairofthedog.com Two of the best known and highest achieving craft breweries in the general vicinity of Portland, Oregon, got together to produce this long anticipated collaboration beer. Over two years in […] Batemans Combined Harvest Multigrain Beer Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 4.4% Origin: Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, England Website: www.bateman.co.uk Under its picturesque disused windmill, Batemans has proved one of England’s more enduring and adaptable independent breweries since half the Bateman family took the leap of faith necessary to buy out the other half and keep the […] Arbor Ales Brigstow Bitter. Pic: Wonker – Creative Commons Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 4.3% Origin: Bristol, England Website: arborales.co.uk Bristol is one of Britain’s more exciting beer cities at the moment, with some outstanding pubs, a small but growing cluster of decent small breweries and a flourishing homebrew scene. Besides Bath Ales, actually […] |
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