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Prignon Fantôme La Dalmatienne
ABV: 8% Origin: Soy (Erezée), Luxembourg, Wallonie Website: www.fantome.be First published: 26 March 2001
Another review from the archive written for the pioneering Oxford Bottled Beer Database (OBBD). I’ve left it uncorrected — so please read it in that historical spirit. Like all products from this brewery, availability and […]
Prignon Fantôme Saison
ABV: 8% Origin: Soy, Luxembourg, Wallonie Website: www.fantome.be Date: 8 September 2000
Another review from the archive written for the pioneering Oxford Bottled Beer Database (OBBD). I’ve left it uncorrected — so please read it in that historical spirit.
Dany Prignon is still brewing his eccentric beers today: indeed it […]
European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 Top Tastings 2012 (Siberia)
ABV: 3.5% and 5.9% Origin: Ilkley, Bradford, England Website: www.ilkleybrewery.co.uk
Ilkley Mary Jane
It’s a generational thing, not a Yorkshire thing. When I heard that the Ilkley brewery’s flagship cask ale goes by the name of Mary Jane, it made perfect sense. The […]
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: Beermongers
ABV: 7.5% Origin: Hood River, Oregon, USA Website: http://farmhousebeer.com
Logsdon Organic Farmhouse Brewery
Dave Logsdon has more than an average brewer’s interest in yeast – he was a founder of renowned yeast culture supplier Wyeast, as well as being the original brewer at what’s now one of Oregon’s most successful […]
Top Tastings 2011
ABV: 8.5% Origin: Placentia, California, USA Website: www.thebruery.com
The Bruery Saison Rue
The Bruery gets its name from a pun on the family name of founder Patrick Rue, and was first employed to designate his home brewing kit during his days as a law student. It was ported over when, […]
Beer sellers: Beermania
ABV: 8% Origin: Blaugies-Dour, Hainaut, Wallonie
Blaugies La Moneuse
Though the centre of gravity of Belgian speciality brewing is skewed towards the Dutch-speaking north, some of the most interesting and rustic Belgian beers come from small rural breweries in the French-speaking south of the country. Consider Blaugies, a brewery in […]
Great American Beer Festival 2010
ABV: 8.5% Origin: Kansas City, Missouri, USA Website: www.boulevard.com
Boulevard Smokestack Series Saison Brett
Boulevard, founded by John Macdonald on Kansas City’s historic Southwest Boulevard in 1989, now claims to be the biggest speciality brewer in the Mid-West and the second largest brewer of any type in Missouri. […]
Beer sellers: City Beer Store, San Francisco
ABV: 6.7% Origin: San Marcos, California, USA Website: www.lostabbey.com
Port The Lost Abbey Red Barn Ale
This is one of Port’s Lost Abbey range of Belgian-style ales, though it began life as a plain Port beer, SPF45. Red Barn pays tribute to a rustic saison, though […]
Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was published on facebook January 2009. Beer sellers: Bierkraft
ABV: 7.7% Origin: Southampton, New York, USA Website: www.southamptonbrewery.com
Southampton Cuvée des Fleurs
The Southampton Publick House, Don and Charlie Sullivan’s acclaimed brewpub in the town of the same name at the eastern end of Long Island, […]
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