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Coopers Original Pale Ale ABV: 4.5% Origin: Regency Park, City of Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia Website: http://coopers.com.au Date: 18 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. A beer from a […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 Top Tastings 2012 (Siberia) ABV: 3.5% and 5.9% Origin: Ilkley, Bradford, England Website: www.ilkleybrewery.co.uk Ilkley Mary Jane It’s a generational thing, not a Yorkshire thing. When I heard that the Ilkley brewery’s flagship cask ale goes by the name of Mary Jane, it made perfect sense. The […] Beer sellers: Abbaye des Saveurs ABV: 6% Origin: Auchy-les Mines, Pas de Calais, France Website: http://biereartisanale.fr/ Artésienne St Glinglin Limited Edition Single Hop Amarillo You’ll look in vain for the delightfully assonant St Glinglin (pronounced like ‘san-glan-glan’ but with French nasalised vowels) in the Dictionary of Saints. When a French speaker says something […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 3.8% Origin: Cairndow, Argyll & Bute, Scotland Website: www.fyneales.com Fyne Ales Jarl Cask golden ales are now as ubiquitous in Britain as traditional bitter, and most, it’s sad to say, make for relatively bland, if refreshing, drinking. One of the ways some of them are marking themselves out is […] London Beer Tastings 2011 ABV: 3% and 6.1% Origin: Tottenham, London N17, England Website: www.redemptionbrewing.co.uk Redemption Trinity Redemption, launched early in 2010, now seems like something of a veteran among the new wave of London brewers. Impressive from the start, it’s rapidly settled down into a consistently performing and reliable source of decent […] London beer tastings 2011 For more background on the brewery see Camden Town Hells Lager ABV: 4.5% and 5% Origin: Kentish Town, London NW5, England Website: www.camdentownbrewery.com Tap handles line up at Camden Town Brewery. Pic: Mark Dredge. Although the marvellously juicy and refreshing Hells Lager is to me Camden Town’s greatest achievement […] 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: Scottish Real Ale Shop ABV: 6% Origin: Swannay, Orkney, Scotland Website: www.highlandbrewingcompany.co.uk Highland (Swannay) Orkney Blast One of Britain’s most northerly breweries and one of its more ambitious, the Highland Brewing Company’s Swannay Brewery was established by Rob Hill, formerly with the Orkney Brewery, originally as a beer firm that contracted […] |
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