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Tunnel Trade Winds India Pale Ale and Sweet Parish Ale

ABV: 4.6% and 4.7% Origin: Ansley, Warwickshire, England Website: www.tunnelbrewery.co.uk

Originally published in BEER, February 2007, as part of a review featuring reader recommended beers. For more, see previous post.

Tunnel Trade Winds and Sweet Parish Ale

The Tunnel Brewery at the Lord Nelson Inn at Ansley, near Nuneaton in one of the […]

St Austell Admiral’s Ale

ABV: 5% Origin: St Austell, Cornwall, England Website: www.staustellbrewery.co.uk

A shorter version was originally published in BEER November 2008. For more smoky beers see previous post. See also Top Tastings 2008.

CAMRA North London tasting February 2010

St Austell Admiral's Ale

For a more subtle whiff of the bonfire (than Heller Aecht Schlenkerla […]

St Austell Smuggler’s Ale

Originally published in BEER June 2006 as part of a piece about beers in Asda supermarkets

ABV: 5 per cent Origin: St Austell, Cornwall, England Buy from: ASDA supermarkets

St Austell Smuggler's Ale

I’ve been drinking a lot of St Austell beers recently: a trip deep into the brewery’s territory to research a […]

Hogs Back BSA and Wobble in a Bottle

Here’s a review of BSA and Wobble in a Bottle (also known as Santa’s Wobble) originally published in BEER April 2006, followed by an earlier review of Wobble from pioneering website the Oxford Bottled Beer Database, published on 23 March 2001.

Hogs Back is now one of the most successful breweries in southeast England, but […]

Atlantic Blue and Red

First published in BEER March 2007

ABV: 4.8 and 5 per cent Origin: Newquay, Cornwall Buy from: Local outlets, specialists Website: www.atlanticbrewery.com

Atlantic Blue, Red and Gold

Meanwhile, Britain’s other Celtic peninsula is providing ever richer pickings for the beer connoisseur [see previous post reviewing two Welsh beers], with one of our few […]

Wood's Hopping Mad

Originally published in What’s Brewing October 2003

Origin: Winstantow, Shropshire, England ABV: 4.7 per cent Buy from supermarkets, specialist shops

Wood's Hopping Mad

Awareness of the ingredients of beers is growing, and the hop, which gives beer its most obviously identifiable and distinctive aromas and flavours, has come in for particular attention. Where […]

Rogue Brutal Bitter

Originally published in What’s Brewing August 2003

Origin: Newport, Oregon, USA ABV: 6.5 per cent Buy from specialist shops, festivals, Only Fine Beer (tel 020 7265 8388, www.onlyfinebeer.co.uk)

Rogue Brutal Bitter

Rogue Ales, based in the Pacific Northwest, a heartland of US craft brewing, is one of the more established of the new […]