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"A necessity if you're a beer geek travelling to London town" - Beer Advocate
"A joy to read" - Roger Protz
"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Top Tastings 2010 (Granite)
ABV: 6.5%, 8% and 10.4% Origin: Millom, Cumbria, England Website: http://hardknottale.co.uk/
An extended review of a beer featured as a new real ale in a bottle on the bottled beer review page in the February 2011 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view […]
ABV: 7% Origin: Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire, England Website: www.wyevalleybrewery.co.uk
Wye Valley Dorothy Goodbody's Imperial Stout
An extended review of a beer featured as a strong and special beer on the bottled beer review page in the November 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who […]
ABV: 8.7% and 10.7% Origin: Manchester, England Website: www.marblebeers.co.uk
An extended review of a beer featured as a strong and special beer on the bottled beer review page in the November 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is additionally available in […]
Great American Beer Festival 2010
ABV: 9.75% Origin: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA Website: www.foothillsbrewing.com
Foothills Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout
If this beer is anything to go by, craft brewing in the US has gone south with a vengeance. A small production brewpub with a penchant for cask ale and a nifty line in […]
Beer Sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco
ABV: 9% Origin: Fort Bragg, California, USA Website: www.northcoastbrewing.com
North Coast Old Rasputin Imperial Russian Stout
“Сердечный друг не родится вдруг,” reads the Russian inscription on the label of this multi-award winning Imperial Stout named after the notorious associate of the last Russian tsarina — “A […]
Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook January 2009.
ABV: 13% Origin: Chicago, Illinois, USA Website: http://www.gooseisland.com
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout
Originally brewed to celebrate this outstanding brewery’s 1000th batch of beer in 1992, this became the USA’s first cask matured beer and started a cult phenomenon among enthusiasts. […]
Featured as a selection from the new Good Bottled Beer Guide in BEER August 2009. For more selections see previous post.
ABV: 6% Origin: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England Website: www.acornbrewery.net
Acorn Gorlovka Imperial Stout
Acorn brewery has its origins in the old Barnsley Brewery, well known for its Barnsley Bitter. When this went […]
Top Tastings 2010 (Verdi Black Jack)
ABV: 5%, 8.2% and 8% Origin: Roncole Verdi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Website: www.birrificiodelducato.com
Italy, as I’ve mentioned here before, is currently one of the beer world’s innovation hotspots, with an emerging craft brewing movement fusing native respect for fine food and drink with a creative energy partly inspired by US […]
First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts. For more imperial stouts see previous post.
ABV: 11 per cent Origin: Newport, Oregon, USA Website www.rogueales.com
Rogue XS Imperial Stout
Founded in 1988, Rogue are now a mainstay of the craft brewing hotbed of the Pacific Northwest and […]
First published in BEER January 2008 as part of a piece about imperial stouts. For more imperial stouts see previous post.
ABV: 10.5 per cent Origin: Ansty, Sussex, England Website www.darkstarbrewing.co.uk
Dark Star Imperial Stout
Dark Star originated at the Evening Star brewpub in Brighton in 1991. Ten years later the brewery, which […]
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