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Heller Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen

Bières sans frontières, Great British Beer Festival 2007. For more selections see previous post.

ABV: 5.1% Origin: Bamberg, Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: www.schlenkerla.de

Brauerei Heller: Wirtshaus zum "Schlenkerla" in Bamberg. Photo: Asio otus, Wikimedia commons.

Heller-Trum Schlenkerla is the most prominent of the two breweries in the classic Franconian brewing city of Bamberg specialising […]

Alvinne Chelmsford Oak Smoked Porter

Pré-ZBF Festival 2010

ABV: 5.3% Origin: Heule, West-Vlaanderen Website: www.alvinne.be

Picobrouwerij Alvinne

The latest collaboration between the Alvinne “picobrewery” and beer writer, tour organiser and all-round personality Chris “Podge” Pollard is this beer intended primarily for the Chelmsford Beer Festival, a combination of Belgian flair and some decidedly local links to Podge’s Essex […]

Heller Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Weizen

ABV: 5.2% Origin: Bamberg, Franken (Bayern), Germany Website: www.schlenkerla.de

A shorter version was originally published in BEER November 2008.

Heller Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Weizen

Global warming may have turned late autumn into a balmy season that fools trees into staying up past their bedtime, but according to my childhood programming the cold begins […]

Molen Bloed, Zweet en Tranen (Bruichladdich)

Top tastings 2009

ABV: 8.1% Origin: Bodegraven, Zuid Holland, Netherlands Website: www.brouwerijdemolen.nl

De Molen Bloed, Zweet en Tranen

Menno Olivier’s De Molen (“the mill”) brewery is in a 17th century windmill called De Ardkuif beside the Oude Rijn river bang in the middle of the Groene Hart, the rural “green heart” within the […]