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Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale Best Damn Beer Shop ABV: 7.2% Origin: Escondido, California, USA Website: www.stonebrew.com Stone is the original bad boy brewer, with brand values that deliberately risk alienating certain groups of potential customers in order to boost the affinity of others. Offset by an obvious sense of humour and backed up […] Green Flash Trippel Ale Best Damn Beer Shop ABV: 9.7% Origin: Vista, California, USA Website: www.greenflashbrew.com Created to mark the brewery’s third anniversary in 2005, the curiously spelt Trippel has the traditional looking ingredients list of a Belgian abbey beer, with added sugar, Styrian Goldings and Czech Žatec hops and Trappist yeast, but […] Ballast Point Black Marlin Porter Best Damn Beer Shop ABV: 6% Origin: San Diego, California, USA Website: www.ballastpoint.com Underlining the vital link between commercial craft brewing and homebrewing around which the vibrant beer culture of San Diego flourishes, the Ballast Point brewery actually began in a homebrewing supplies shop. Opened in 1992, Jack […] Alpine Pure Hoppiness. Best Damn Beer Shop ABV: 8% Origin: Alpine, California, USA Website: alpinebrewing.com When you think about it, “Pure Hoppiness” is such an obvious punning name for a hop-focused beer, it’s surprising someone didn’t grab it years ago. Instead, it’s fallen to a very small but high achieving craft brewery in […] AleSmith Wee Heavy Scotch Style Ale Best Damn Beer Shop ABV: 10% Origin: San Diego, California, USA Website: www.alesmith.com I first heard about the buzz around beer in San Diego from some itinerant locals who struck up a conversation with me at Belgium’s Zythos Bierfestival in 2008. They also very kindly gave me […] Beers and brewhouse at Societe Brewing, San Diego CA. Top Tastings 2012 (The Pupil) ABV: 9.8%, 6% and 7.7% Origin: San Diego, California, USA Website: www.societebrewing.com San Diego, a naval and university city in California’s far southwestern corner, is also a top craft beer producer, boasting heavy hitters like AleSmith, Port and Stone […] 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, […] 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 […] 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 […] |
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