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Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 8.5% Origin: Kansas City, Missouri, USA Website: www.boulevard.com Boulevard Smokestack Series Saison Brett Boulevard, founded by John Macdonald on Kansas City’s historic Southwest Boulevard in 1989, now claims to be the biggest speciality brewer in the Mid-West and the second largest brewer of any type in Missouri. […] Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7.7% Origin: Escondido, California, USA Website: www.stonebrew.com Stone Ruination IPA. With lots of hops. Stone is one of the most prominent and successful of new generation Californian micros, thanks to the quality of its beers and to a risky and slightly macho but ultimately rather […] Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7.7% Origin: Santa Rosa, California, USA Website: www.russianriverbrewing.com Russian River Damnation Golden Ale This was the first Belgian-inspired bottle conditioned beer I tried from one of California’s leading micros, a strong golden ale broadly in the style of Duvel that’s claimed three GABF medals so […] Beer sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 6.7% Origin: San Marcos, California, USA Website: www.lostabbey.com Port The Lost Abbey Red Barn Ale This is one of Port’s Lost Abbey range of Belgian-style ales, though it began life as a plain Port beer, SPF45. Red Barn pays tribute to a rustic saison, though […] Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 9% Origin: Fort Bragg, California, USA Website: www.northcoastbrewing.com North Coast Old Rasputin Imperial Russian Stout “Сердечный друг не родится вдруг,” reads the Russian inscription on the label of this multi-award winning Imperial Stout named after the notorious associate of the last Russian tsarina — “A […] Beer sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco ABV: 7% Origin: Healdsburg, California, USA Website: http://www.bearrepublic.com/ Bear Republic Racer 5 India Pale Ale The fame of Northern California’s Sonoma County is now second only to neighbouring Napa among wine lovers, but the area round Healdsburg was once hop growing country, a fact which father […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook, January 2009. Beer sellers: Bierkraft ABV: 10% Origin: Lakewood, New York, USA Website: www.southerntierbrewing.com Southern Tier hoppe extra pale ale ‘Southern Tier’ is the informal geographical term for the southwest counties of New York state, and was also the name chosen by Phineas […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was published on facebook January 2009. Beer sellers: Bierkraft ABV: 7.7% Origin: Southampton, New York, USA Website: www.southamptonbrewery.com Southampton Cuvée des Fleurs The Southampton Publick House, Don and Charlie Sullivan’s acclaimed brewpub in the town of the same name at the eastern end of Long Island, […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009. ABV: 9.9% Origin: Ithaca, New York, United States of America Website: www.ithacabeer.com Ithaca Beer Co Celebrating 10 Years According to the bottle, “too many malts to list” and “an excess of American hops” went into this rather special beer, which I bought […] |
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