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ABV: 4.5, 6.4 and 7.2% Origin: San Francisco, California, USA Website: http://thirstybear.com
ThirstBear Brewing Company and Spanish Cuisine, San Francisco
Northern California’s Bay Area is indisputably the birthplace of the modern US craft brewing movement, whether you date it from Fritz Maytag buying and reviving San Francisco’s historic Anchor brewery in 1965 or […]
Beer sellers: Westholme Store
ABV: 5% Origin: Horsham, West Sussex, England
Hepworth Ridgeway Oxfordshire Blue
Ridgeway, based at South Stoke just south of Wallingford in Oxfordshire, is a beer firm set up by former Brakspear brewer Peter Scholey when that historic company pulled out of brewing. The brand name references the prehistoric […]
Beer sellers: Westholme Store
ABV: 5% Origin: Yattendon, West Berkshire, England Website: www.wbbrew.com
West Berkshire Dr Hexter's Healer
From the image on the label, you might guess that Dr Hexter was some eccentric Victorian quack, but he turns out to be a more contemporary local character — the landlord of a pub in […]
This beer featured in BEER May 2011 as part of a piece on the influence of different malts on beer flavour. To read about other beers featured see Hopshackle Historic Porter.
ABV: 5.3% Origin: Aberhonddu, Powys, Cymru Website: www.breconshirebrewery.com
Breconshire Winter Beacon
The qualities of speciality malts aren’t limited to darker beers and […]
European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011, Top Tastings 2011
ABV: 4.5% Origin: Nynäshamn, Södermanland, Sweden Website: www.nyab.se
Nynäshamns Bedarö Bitter
One of the highlights of the Beer Bloggers Conference was a Night of Many Beers hosted by Camden Town brewery, most of which I spent hovering by the table of Swedish and Italian […]
Top Tastings 2010
ABV: 4.5% Origin: North Shields, Tyne & Wear, England Website: www.morduebrewery.com
Mordue Workie Ticket
The Newcastle conurbation is famous for its internationally known Brown Ale, now made in Gateshead on the south bank of the Tyne, but there are far, far better beers made in the region. Several of them […]
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 it online. The magazine is additionally available in selected newsagents.
ABV: 5% Origin: Newington, Edinburgh, […]
Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version appeared on facebook January 2009.
ABV: 4.5% Origin: Sudbury, Suffolk, England Website: www.nethergate.co.uk
Nethergate Augustinian
Brewer Ian Hornsey, a former microbiologist, has been turning out excellent beers on a commercial scale since 1986, and has worked from his current site since 2005. He’s particularly renowned for reviving […]
Top Tastings 2010 (Strong Suffolk)
ABV: 6%, 6.5% and 6% Origin: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Website: www.greeneking.co.uk
Greene King Suffolk Springer
These three beers offer currently the only options for public access to Greene King’s legendary Old 5X, Britain’s only surviving wood aged beer made on a commercial scale. GK have long […]
First published in BEER July 2008 as part of a piece on beers recently converted to bottle conditioning. Young’s Bitter also included in Top Tastings 2008.
ABV: 4.5 and 4.8 per cent Origin: Bedford, Bedfordshire Website www.wellsandyoungs.co.uk
Wells and Young's Young's Bitter
When you consider how perilously close British bottle conditioned beer was […]
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