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Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 7.3% Origin: Santa Rosa, California, USA Website: www.russianriverbrewing.com Russian River Temptation Barrel Aged Ale My first encounter with a US brewpub was a fortuitous one. When I first crossed the Atlantic some years back, it was to San Francisco, but rather than head straight for the city we first […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 10% Origin: San Marcos, California, USA Website: www.portbrewing.com Port Old Viscosity Ale Port Brewing has its origins in the Pizza Port restaurant founded by Vince and Gina Marsaglia at Solana Beach, California, one of the pioneers of the craft-beer-and-pizza formula now found throughout the USA. The original Pizza Port […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 9.4% Origin: Fort Bragg, California, USA Website: www.northcoastbrewing.com North Coast Brother Thelonious Belgian style abbey ale There are multiple puns in the name and marketing of Brother Thelonious, a Belgian-inspired strong abbey ale that is indeed connected to a monk. The monk in question is, however, not […] Top Tastings 2009, Beer sellers: The Beermongers ABV: 10% Origin: Portland, Oregon, USA Website: www.hairofthedog.com Hair of the Dog Adam
Hair of the Dog, founded in 1993 by Alan Sprints, is now known as one of the most adventurous and consistently high-hitting breweries in the craft brewing heartland of the Pacific Northwest. […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 9% Origin: Milton, Delaware, USA Website: www.dogfish.com Dogfish Head 90 minute Imperial IPA From a modest British session India Pale Ale (see previous posting) to an all-cylinders-firing modern North American twist on the style. Dogfish Head started in 1995 as the first brewpub in Delaware, in Reheboth Beach, in […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 12% Origin: San Diego, California, USA Website: www.alesmith.com AleSmith Speedway Stout AleSmith brewery, based in the naval city of San Diego in southern California, emerged like many US craft breweries from the home brewing movement and has established itself as one of the most appreciated producers of big, strong […] Originally published in What’s Brewing August 2003 Origin: Newport, Oregon, USA ABV: 6.5 per cent Buy from specialist shops, festivals, Only Fine Beer (tel 020 7265 8388, www.onlyfinebeer.co.uk) Rogue Brutal Bitter Rogue Ales, based in the Pacific Northwest, a heartland of US craft brewing, is one of the more established of the new […] |
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