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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: 5.1% and 7.7% Origin: […] Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was first published on facebook January 2009. ABV: 7.3% Origin: Bavikhove, West-Vlaanderen Website: www.bavik.be Bavik Petrus Aged Pale Established in 1894 and now a sizeable family-owned independent, Bavik (sometimes known as De Brandenbere after the owning family) made its name with sour brown ales, some of which […] Top Tastings 2010 (Verdi Black Jack) ABV: 5%, 8.2% and 8% Origin: Roncole Verdi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Website: www.birrificiodelducato.com Italy, as I’ve mentioned here before, is currently one of the beer world’s innovation hotspots, with an emerging craft brewing movement fusing native respect for fine food and drink with a creative energy partly inspired by US […] ABV: 5.5% Origin: Ertvelde, Oost-Vlaanderen Website: www.vansteenberge.com Van Steenberge Monk's Cafe Flemish Sour Ale 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die Formerly known as Bios Vlaamse Bourgogne. A full review of this beer is featured in the book 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die, published May 2010 by […] Pré-ZBF Festival 2010 ABV: 8% Origin: Woesten-Vleteren, West-Vlaanderen Website: http://struise.noordhoek.com De Struise Aardmonnik De Struise Brouwers, a beer firm that work mainly on the plant of the Deca brewery, are the enfants terribles of Belgian brewing, more appreciated by the international “extreme beer” crowd than within Belgium itself for their eccentric, often strong […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 5.8% Origin: Esquelbec, Nord, France Website: www.brasseriethiriez.com Brasserie Thiriez Daniel Thiriez seems incapable of making uninteresting beer: everything I’ve tasted from his self-named brewery has had something to say for itself as well as being consistently of high quality. The brewery is in the historic beer country of French […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 7.3% Origin: Santa Rosa, California, USA Website: www.russianriverbrewing.com Russian River Temptation Barrel Aged Ale My first encounter with a US brewpub was a fortuitous one. When I first crossed the Atlantic some years back, it was to San Francisco, but rather than head straight for the city we first […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 10% Origin: Roeselare, Oost Vlaanderen Website: www.rodenbach.be Rodenbach Vin de Céréale Rodenbach of Roeselare is a Belgian beer icon, one of the key breweries celebrated by Michael Jackson back in the 1980s when he first introduced the country’s remarkable beer culture to the wider world. It’s renowned then as […] |
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