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Top Tastings 2009, Beer sellers: The Beermongers ABV: 10% Origin: Portland, Oregon, USA Website: www.hairofthedog.com Hair of the Dog Adam
Hair of the Dog, founded in 1993 by Alan Sprints, is now known as one of the most adventurous and consistently high-hitting breweries in the craft brewing heartland of the Pacific Northwest. […] Top Tastings 2009, Beer Sellers: Landbierparadies, Nürnberg ABV: 5% Origin: Huppendorf, Franken/Bayern, Germany Website: www.huppendorfer-bier.de Grasser Hupperdorfer Bier Vollbier, “full beer”, is a tax category that accounts for the vast majority of German beers and rarely appears on labels, except in Franconia where it’s become specialised to full-bodied standard strength lagers that come […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 9 per cent Origin: Erpe-Mere, Oost Vlaanderen Website: www.glazentoren.be Glazen Toren Saison d'Erpe-Mere You’d expect something special from the “glass tower”, a relatively young micro tucked away in the hilly country of the so-called “Flemish Ardennes” — it was co-founded by beer writer and leading Belgian beer expert Jef […] Note this post has been superceded. It has been left here for archival reasons. Read a more complete and up-to-date post about this beer. Top Tastings 2009 CAMRA North London tasting 2010 ABV: 8% Origin: Chiswick, London, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk Note: tasting notes on further vintages can be found after the main article. Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 8% Origin: Esen, West Vlaanderen Website: www.dedollebrouwers.be De Dolle Brouwers Cosmos Porter This experimental brew divides opinion. I’ve spoken to several people who have hated it, and even its brewer, Kris Herteleer, seemed in two minds about it when serving it to the public at the 2009 Zythos beer […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 9% Origin: Milton, Delaware, USA Website: www.dogfish.com Dogfish Head 90 minute Imperial IPA From a modest British session India Pale Ale (see previous posting) to an all-cylinders-firing modern North American twist on the style. Dogfish Head started in 1995 as the first brewpub in Delaware, in Reheboth Beach, in […] Top Tastings 2009. ABV: 4.5% Origin: Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England This tiny brewery was set up in 1992 in the Concertina Band Club at Mexborough, near Doncaster, essentially to brew beer for the club, though occasionally its beers seep out to beer festivals, especially since Roger Protz featured this particular beer in his 300 Beers […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 4% Origin: Ystradgynlais, Powys, Cymru Website: Currently unavailable Bryncelyn began as a tiny brewery in the cellar of the Wern Fawr Inn at Ystalyfera in 1999 and steadily built up a reputation as one of Wales’ best small cask ale breweries — it’s since expanded to new premises in industrial workshops […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 6.5% Origin: Binche, Hainaut, Wallonie Website: www.belgoobeer.be Binche / Belgoo Luppoo Historically, hop character hasn’t figured highly on the list of all the many and varied features of Belgian beers, which are better known for their richly malty, sweetish, sour and spicy flavours. According to lambic brewer Frank Boon, […] Top Tastings 2009. A shorter version was originally published in BEER November 2009 as part of a piece about strong ales for winter. Amager Imperial Stout ABV: 10.1% Origin: Kastrup, Hovedstaden, Denmark Website: www.amagerbryghus.dk No roundup of winter brews would be complete without a real imperial stout, and one of the very best […] |
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