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Alpine Pure Hoppiness. Best Damn Beer Shop ABV: 8% Origin: Alpine, California, USA Website: alpinebrewing.com When you think about it, “Pure Hoppiness” is such an obvious punning name for a hop-focused beer, it’s surprising someone didn’t grab it years ago. Instead, it’s fallen to a very small but high achieving craft brewery in […] Russian River Pliny the Elder Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 8% Origin: Santa Rosa, California, USA Website: www.russianriverbrewing.com Russian River brewer Vinnie Cilurzo is generally credited with creating the Double IPA as a commercial beer style. Inaugural IPA, the first beer Vinnie brewed professionally, was so named as it launched his first brewing venture, […] Knee Deep Simtra Triple India Pale Ale Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 11.3% Origin: Lincoln, California, USA Website: kneedeepbrewing.com I asked the staff of small but outstanding specialist drinks shop Healthy Spirits, in San Francisco’s Duboce Triangle, for a recommendation of a new West Coast IPA to try and was pointed to this example […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 ABV: 7.4%, 9.2% and 10.5% Origin: Huddersfield, Kirklees, England Website: www.magicrockbrewing.com Welcome to the beer circus: poster at Magic Rock brewery, Huddersfield. The last few years have seen not just the relentless growth of microbrewing in the UK but also the emergence of new approaches that challenge the […] Top Tastings 2011, Beer sellers: The Beermongers ABV: 9% Origin: Bend, Oregon, USA Website: www.bendbrewingco.com Bend Hop-Head Imperial India Pale Ale My trip to one of the US’s top craft beer cities, Portland, Oregon, in Autumn 2011 could easily have accounted for half my Top Tastings of the year, but to spread […] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 10% Origin: San Marcos, California, USA Website: www.portbrewing.com Port Hop-15 I was delighted to discover bomber bottles of this classic US imperial India pale ale on sale in outstanding London beer seller Kris Wines. The name refers to its origin as a celebration ale for the 15th anniversary of […] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 9.2% Origin: Vista, California, USA Website: www.greenflashbrew.com Green Flash Le Freak Founded in 2002 by former pub owners Mike and Lisa Hinkley near San Diego, joined shortly afterwards by head brewer Chuck Silva, Green Flash has established itself as a favoured source of innovative and sometimes extreme beers with […] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 10.5% Origin: Boulder, Colorado, USA Website: www.averybrewing.com Avery Maharaja Imperial India Pale Ale Regularly topping polls of the world’s best beers, this super-hopped pale ale comes from a Colorado brewery founded by home brewer Adam Avery in 1993, since much expanded and greatly admired for its cutting edge repertoire […] Top Tastings 2010 (JJJ IPA) ABV: 7.5% and 9.5% Origin: Pitney, Somerset, Engand Website: www.moorbeer.co.uk An extended review of a beeer 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. […] Great American Beer Festival 2010 Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 9% Origin: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Website: http://www.sweetwaterbrew.com SweetWater Dank Tank Magnum IP Imperial Pilsner If the beers I tried from below the Mason-Dixon Line at the GABF are anything to go by, the craft breweries of the Deep South are quickly catching up with […] |
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