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ABV: 4.4% Origin: Ickburgh, Norfolk, England Website: http://icenibrewery.co.uk Date: 25 September 2000
Another review from the archive written for the pioneering Oxford Bottled Beer Database (OBBD). I’ve left it uncorrected — so please read it in that historical spirit. The beer is still in Iceni founder Brendan Moore’s range today.
The intriguing label designs from […]
Arbor Ales Brigstow Bitter. Pic: Wonker – Creative Commons
Top Tastings 2012
ABV: 4.3% Origin: Bristol, England Website: arborales.co.uk
Bristol is one of Britain’s more exciting beer cities at the moment, with some outstanding pubs, a small but growing cluster of decent small breweries and a flourishing homebrew scene. Besides Bath Ales, actually […]
Adnams Southwold Bitter in minicasks. Pic: Adnams.
Top Tastings 2012
ABV: 3.7% Origin: Southwold, Suffolk, England Website: adnams.co.uk
I’ve long regarded Adnams Southwold Bitter as one of the benchmark examples of a traditional English cask bitter, an outstanding demonstration of the genius of the best old estabished British breweries for achieving depth and […]
European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012
ABV: 3.8% and 4.4% Origin: Leeds, England Website: www.leedsbrewery.co.uk
Leeds Pale
The closure and demolition of an historic brewery is always a loss in economic and heritage terms and, depending on how embedded it was in the life of its surroundings, a potential loss to local culture too. […]
Top Tastings 2011
ABV: 4.9% Origin: London W10, England Website: moncadabrewery.co.uk
Julio Moncada at the London Brewers Showcase, October 2011
2011 was an extraordinary year for brewing in London. When I sent the final text of London’s Best Beer, Bars and Pubs off to CAMRA Books in early March, I felt the capital […]
London Beer Tastings 2011 Junction was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.
ABV: 4.5%, 4.7% (5% in bottle) and 4.2% Origin: Battersea, London SW11, England Website: www.sambrooksbrewery.co.uk
Sambrook's Junction
The departure of Young’s from London in 2006 […]
London beer tastings 2011. For more Brodie’s beers and more background to the brewery, see previous post.
ABV: 3.1%, 3.9% and 5.7% Origin: Leyton, London E10, England Website: brodiesbeers.co.uk
Brodie's Citra
Like the brewery’s Amarilla, Citra is a popular, refreshing and approachable beer featuring an especially fragrant new US hop. A cask […]
Beer sellers: Westholme Store
ABV: 4.2% Origin: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England Website: www.applefordbrewery.co.uk
Appleford Brewery Co
Based on a farm in rural Oxfordshire at Brightwell-cum-Sotwell near Wallingford, Appleford was founded in 2006 by Andrew Torrance, formerly an accountant at the Morland brewery which was bought and closed by Greene King. Beers tend to be […]
Beer sellers: Meadow Farm Shop
ABV: 4.5%, 4.8% and 58% Origin: Tyndyrn, Sir Fynwy, Cymru Website: www.kingstonebrewery.co.uk
Kingstone Classic Bitter
I tasted several bottle conditioned Kingstone beers during a visit to the adjoining Meadow Farm Shop in the breathtakingly beautiful Wye Valley for a Beers of the World piece in 2008. There’s more […]
Timothy Taylor Landlord
Top Tastings 2010
ABV: 4.1% Origin: Keighley, West Yorkshire, England Website: www.timothy-taylor.co.uk
Established in 1858, Timothy Taylor had long enjoyed the respect of discerning beer drinkers as one of the best of the surviving regional independents when in 2003 a certain musician by the name of Madonna […]
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Cask This pioneering new book explains what makes cask beer so special, and explores its past, present and future. Order now from CAMRA Books. Read more here.
London’s Best Beer The fully updated 3rd edition of my essential award-winning guide to London’s vibrant beer scene is available now from CAMRA Books. Read more here.
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