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Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2008. ABV: 12.5% Origin: San Marcos, California, USA Website: www.lostabbey.com, www.portbrewing.com Lost Abbey brewer Tomme Arthur. Pic: Port Brewing Another rare treat on draught at the Great British Beer Festival, this extraordinary barrel aged beer has spent six months in Heaven Hill Wheat […] August 25th, 2010 | Tags: Barley Wine, Port, Top Tastings 2008, Wood aged | Category: California, Tastings, United States of America | Leave a comment Featured in BEER November 2009 as a strong ale for winter drinking. For similar beers, see previous post. ABV: 8% Origin: Woodbastwick, Norfolk, England Website: www.woodfordes.co.uk Woodforde's Norfolk Nip Established in 1980, Woodforde’s is now quite a veteran, and a leading player in the burgeoning microbrewing scene of East Anglia. As well as […] July 11th, 2010 | Tags: Barley Wine, Strong ales November 2009, Woodforde's | Category: East of England, England, Great Britain, Tastings | Leave a comment Featured in BEER November 2009 as a strong ale for winter drinking. For more beers in this piece, see previous post. ABV: 10% Origin: Rock, Cornwall Website: www.sharpsbrewery.co.uk Sharp's Brewery Massive Ale is one of Sharp’s brewer Stuart Howe’s bottled specialities, an exciting sideline with a distinct Belgian influence for one of the […] July 11th, 2010 | Tags: Barley Wine, Molson Coors, Sharp's, Strong ales November 2009 | Category: England, Great Britain, South West, Tastings | Leave a comment First published in BEER March 2008 as part of a piece about Welsh beers. Beer sellers: Meadow Farm Shop ABV: 4.8 and 8 per cent Origin: Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf Website www.otleybrewing.co.uk Otley O-Garden Last month’s BEER previewed CAMRA’s Members’ Weekend in Cardiff by featuring Welsh beer and breweries, with my colleague Brian […] May 16th, 2010 | Tags: Barley Wine, Meadow Farm Shop, Otley, Wheat Ale | Category: Cymru, Great Britain, Tastings | Leave a comment First published in BEER December 2007 as part of a piece about strong beers for the festive season. For more strong festive beers see previous post. ABV: 11.5 per cent Origin: Middleton Junction, Manchester, England Website www.jwlees.co.uk JW Lees Harvest Ale The term “vintage”, which strictly speaking refers to the grape harvest, is […] May 10th, 2010 | Tags: Barley Wine, Lees | Category: England, Great Britain, North West, Tastings | Leave a comment First published in BEER December 2007 as part of a piece about strong beers for the festive season. ABV: 11.7 per cent Origin: Whimple, Devon, England Website www.ohanlons.co.uk O'Hanlon's Thomas Hardy's Ale When it comes to the festive season, I’m something of a bah humbug type by nature, but one of the […] May 10th, 2010 | Tags: Barley Wine, O'Hanlon's, Thomas Hardy | Category: England, Great Britain, South West, Tastings | 2 comments First published in BEER December 2006 as part of a page about strong beers. See previous post for more strong beers. ABV: 8.5 per cent Origin: Terrick, Buckinghamshire, England Website: www.chilternbrewery.co.uk Chiltern Bodgers Barley Wine Launched in 1980 and still run by the Jenkinson family, the Chiltern Brewery near Aylesbury is a rare […] April 4th, 2010 | Tags: Barley Wine, Chiltern | Category: England, Great Britain, South East, Tastings | Leave a comment Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 10% Origin: Innerleithen, Scottish Borders, Scotland Website: www.traquair.co.uk Traquair House by James McIntosh Patrick, National Galleries of Scotland Traquair House is the oldest inhabited stately home in Scotland and a new wave craft brewer ahead of its time. In 1965, several years before the launch of CAMRA, the rediscovery […] February 7th, 2010 | Tags: Barley Wine, Top Tastings 2009, Traquair, Wood aged | Category: Great Britain, Scotland, Tastings | Leave a comment Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 11% Origin: Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire, England Website: www.thornbridgebrewery.co.uk Thornbridge is currently one of the most exciting and innovative breweries in Britain, complimenting a range of high quality cask ales with a selection of bottled specialities including fine India Pale Ales and Imperial Stouts and the unclassifiable dark honey beer Bracia. It […] February 7th, 2010 | Tags: Barley Wine, Thornbridge, Top Tastings 2009, Wood aged | Category: East Midlands, England, Great Britain, Tastings | Leave a comment Beer sellers: Scottish Real Ale Shop Top Tastings 2009 (bottled 2007), Top Tastings 2011 (draught 2010) ABV: 10% Origin: Quoyloo, Orkney, Scotland Website: www.orkneybrewery.co.uk Orkney Dark Island Reserve One of Britain’s northernmost breweries and one of Scotland’s strong collection of distinctive micros, Orkney was founded in a derelict schoolhouse by an Englishman […] February 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Barley Wine, Orkney, Scottish Real Ale Shop, Top Tastings 2009, Top Tastings 2011, Wood aged | Category: Great Britain, Scotland, Tastings | Leave a comment |
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