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Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 9.2% Origin: Vista, California, USA Website: www.greenflashbrew.com Green Flash Le Freak Founded in 2002 by former pub owners Mike and Lisa Hinkley near San Diego, joined shortly afterwards by head brewer Chuck Silva, Green Flash has established itself as a favoured source of innovative and sometimes extreme beers with […] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 5.8% Origin: Farmville, North Carolina, USA Website: www.duckrabbitbrewery.com The Duck-Rabbit Schwarzbier (black lager) Only a philosopher could think to call a brewery Duck-Rabbit, after the ambiguous drawing seen as either a duck or a rabbit discussed in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophische Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations, 1953). And sure enough founder Paul […] 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 […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 8.2% Origin: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA Website: http://www.troegs.com Tröegs Troegenator Doublebock Beer Most of the more celebrated American craft brews are warm fermented ales, but here’s an East Coast microbrewer making a very convincing fist of an original European extreme lager style, the Doppelbock. The […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 9% Origin: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Website: http://www.sweetwaterbrew.com SweetWater Dank Tank Magnum IP Imperial Pilsner If the beers I tried from below the Mason-Dixon Line at the GABF are anything to go by, the craft breweries of the Deep South are quickly catching up with […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 5.7% Origin: Lahaina, Hawaii, USA Website: http://www.mauibrewingco.com Maui CoCoNut PorTeR I’ d been wanting to try this celebrated speciality beer since I met its brewer, the charming Garrett W Marrero, at the Rake in London earlier this year, when he was over to brew a cask version […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 9.75% Origin: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA Website: www.foothillsbrewing.com Foothills Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout If this beer is anything to go by, craft brewing in the US has gone south with a vengeance. A small production brewpub with a penchant for cask ale and a nifty line in […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 7.5% Origin: Tampa, Florida, USA Website: www.cigarcitybrewing.com Cigar City Humidor Series As the crowds poured into the Colorado Convention Centre on the opening night of the Great American Beer Festival, the queues soon began to form at some predictable locations, such as Lost Abbey […] |
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