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Herold Tmavé speciální pivo ABV: 5.3% Origin: Březnice, Středočeský kraj, Czech Republic Website: www.pivovar-herold.cz First published: 5 February 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. Herold, likely one of the world’s oldest […] Oechsner Schwarzbier ABV: 5% Origin: Ochsenfurt, Franken (Bayern), Germany Website: www.oechsner.de Date: 9 October 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. I resisted the temptation to correct the bit where I show […] Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 5% Origin: Santa Rosa, California, USA Website: www.moonlightbrewing.com Moonlight Death & Taxes Black Beer The name refers to the old proverb about certainty, attributed among many others to Benjamin Franklin. And it’s a quality that I’ve come to associate over the past few years with Moonlight beers – the […] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 5.8% Origin: Farmville, North Carolina, USA Website: www.duckrabbitbrewery.com The Duck-Rabbit Schwarzbier (black lager) Only a philosopher could think to call a brewery Duck-Rabbit, after the ambiguous drawing seen as either a duck or a rabbit discussed in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophische Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations, 1953). And sure enough founder Paul […] Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post. ABV: 5% Origin: Sumida, Tōkyō, Japan Website: www.asahibeer.co.jp Asahi Premium Black Kuronama The Japanese beer market exhibits a taste for dark lagers inherited no doubt from the German brewers who helped set up the country’s brewing industry in the […] Top Tastings 2009, Beer sellers: Landbierparadies ABV: 5.2% Origin: Forchheim, Franken/Bayern, Germany Neder Schwarze Anna Franconia is still the secret garden of beer appreciation. There are about 300 breweries in the three districts that make up modern day Franconia, a culturally and historically distinct region of what’s now the German “Land” of Bavaria. […] |
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