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From the cellar: Guinness Foreign Extra Stout (Nigeria)

ABV: 8% Origin: Ikeja, Nigeria Website: www.guinness.com Date: 7 August 2000

This was my first ever published bottled beer review, written for the Oxford Bottled Beer Database (OBBD), a pioneering crowd-sourced beer review website founded in 1992, and predating the likes of Ratebeer and Beer Advocate. I’ll gradually be archiving my reviews from the site […]

Carlton & United Sheaf Stout

Top Tastings 2011

ABV: 5.7% Origin: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Website: cub.com.au

Tooth's (now Carlton United) Sheaf Stout apparently kept these strapping Aussie Rules players fit. Those were the days.

I discovered a plain looking 750ml bottle of this southern hemisphere classic, which I’ve never seen on sale in the UK, in […]

Kernel Export Stout London 1890 and London Porter

London Beer Tastings 2011. Export Stout was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.

ABV: 7.8% and 5.6% Origin: Bermondsey, London SE1, England Website: www.thekernelbrewery.com

Evin O'Riordan of The Kernel brewery, London SE1

Evin O’Riordan, founder and head brewer […]