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The beauty of barley. Pic: Valley Malt. It’s often said that hops are the varietals of the beer world, an idea that many brewers have seized on with numerous single hop brews constructed to show off the individual characteristics of a specific variety, so dedicated connoisseurs can get to know their Citra from […] Ska Steel Toe Working Class Milk Stout Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 5.4% Origin: Durango, Colorado, USA Website: www.skabrewing.com With my soft spot for the smarter and sharper side of mid-1960s music and fashion and its later revivalist derivatives, I was intrigued to find a Colorado craft brewery calling itself Ska and borrowing its […] 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 – […] Beer sellers: Cerveteca ABV: 6% Origin: Longmont, Colorado, USA Website: www.lefthandbrewing.com Left Hand Milk Stout A typical US craft brewing success story in one of North America’s fine beer heartlands, Colorado, Left Hand first brewed commercially in 1994, on the initiative of home brewer Dick Doore and his old friend Eric Wallace. Its […] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 5.3% Origin: Aurora, Colorado, USA Website: www.drydockbrewing.com Dry Dock Brewing Kevin DeLange already owned a small homebrew store when in 2005 he decided to add a microbrewery with its own tiny taproom. Such was the success of this move that in 2009 the taproom and brewery relocated to a […] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 10.5% Origin: Boulder, Colorado, USA Website: www.averybrewing.com Avery Maharaja Imperial India Pale Ale Regularly topping polls of the world’s best beers, this super-hopped pale ale comes from a Colorado brewery founded by home brewer Adam Avery in 1993, since much expanded and greatly admired for its cutting edge repertoire […] |
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