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Born to be Mild festival, Sambrook’s, 27-29 May 2022 Download beer list and tastings notes (PDF, updated 24 May 2022) The great Mild Ale comeback continues! I’m co-curating the inaugural weekend-long Born To Be Mild London mild ale festival on 27-29 May 2022 at Sambrook’s Brewery Tap on the historic Ram brewery site in […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 3.7% Origin: Maldon, Essex, England Website: www.mightyoakbrewery.co.uk Mighty Oak Oscar Wilde This beer won Champion Beer of Britain (CBoB) at the Great British Beer Festival in August 2011, much to the consternation of some craft beer aficianados who saw this as further evidence of CAMRA conservatism and fustiness – […] 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 […] Beer sellers: Meadow Farm Shop ABV: 3.7% and 4.3% Origin: Wrecsam, Cymru Website: www.jollybrewer.co.uk Jolly Brewer Taid's Garden Beside the better known likes of BrewDog, Dark Star and Thornbridge in the first rank of innovative and top quality British microbreweries are a handful of names that, despite limited production and distribution, deserve to […] Great British Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 3.5% Origin: Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands Website: www.brouwerijdemolen.nl Revelation Cat Whole Milk Mild This is a beer deserving of the description ‘eclectic’: a cross between two traditional and somewhat neglected English beer styles, mild and milk stout, commissioned by an Italian and brewed by a Dutchman. The idea […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was first published on facebook January 2009. ABV: 2.7% Origin: Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Website: www.brewdog.com BrewDog Founded in 2007 by iconoclasts James Watt and Martin Dickie, the latter formerly of Thornbridge, BrewDog has rapidly become one of Britain’s most exciting breweries. It’s also caused some controversy particulary […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was first published on facebook January 2009. ABV: 3.9% Origin: Millom, Cumbria, England Website: http://www.beckstonesbrewery.co.uk/ Beckstones Black Gun Dog Freddy Mild Ale When this won gold in its class and silver overall at the 2008 Champion Beer of Britain you could hear people muttering “who?”. But it […] First published in BEER May 2008 as part of a piece about Norfolk milds. More Norfolk milds in previous post. ABV: 3.9 per cent Origin: Heacham Website: www.foxbrewery.co.uk Fox Nina's Mild A more traditional example of vertical integration [than with Uncle Stuart’s in the previous post] can be found at Heacham, a […] |
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