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Top Tastings 2011, Beer sellers: The Beermongers ABV: 9% Origin: Bend, Oregon, USA Website: www.bendbrewingco.com Bend Hop-Head Imperial India Pale Ale My trip to one of the US’s top craft beer cities, Portland, Oregon, in Autumn 2011 could easily have accounted for half my Top Tastings of the year, but to spread […] Box Steam Funnel Blower Top Tastings 2011 Southwest porters and strong beers ABV: 4.5% Origin: Colerne, Wiltshire, England Website: www.boxsteambrewery.com Family-owned Box Steam, founded in 2004 near Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s celebrated Great Western Railway tunnel under Box Hill in rural Wiltshire, is a brewery well worth keeping an eye on. I bumped into […] Beer sellers: Scottish Real Ale Shop; Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4% Origin: Larbert, Falkirk, Scotland Website www.trystbrewery.co.uk Tryst Drovers 80/- Tryst is a strong candidate for the list of the most underrated breweries in the UK — I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad beer from this micro just outside Falkirk. […] Gueuzerie Tilquin; Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 6% Origin: Rebecq-Bierghes, Brabant-Wallonie, Wallonie Website: www.gueuzerietilquin.be Tilquin Gueuze à l'ancienne 2011, à la main de M Tilquin soi-même. This is the first release of new lambic blender Tilquin’s Oude Geuze, or Gueuze à l’ancienne as the Wallonian-based enterprise prefers to label it. A little controversially, […] Great British Beer Festival 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 5% Origin: Broumov, Králové Hradecký kraj, Czech Republic Website: www.pivovarbroumov.cz Broumov Opat Kvasničák Pepper The Broumov brewery, by the Polish border, claims a history back to 1348, when the townspeople were first granted rights to brew, although the current plant dates from 1866. […] Kinshachi Nagoya Akamiso Lager Japanese beer tasting, White Horse, London SW6, June 2011; Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 6% Origin: Nagoya, Chūbu, Japan Website: www.kinshachi.jp Based in Japan’s third biggest city, Nagoya, Kinshachi was established in 1996 as the Landbeer brewery, though points to an earlier local tradition of brewing in the 1880s. […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.4% Origin: Plzeň, Plzeňský kraj, Czech Republic Website: www.prazdroj.cz Plzeňský Prazdroj's head brewer Václav Berka serves up his Kvasnicový at the European Beer Bloggers Conference, London, May 2011. Pic: Reuben Gray, www.taleofale.com The second word in the name of this famous Bohemian brewery […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.5% Origin: Nynäshamn, Södermanland, Sweden Website: www.nyab.se Nynäshamns Bedarö Bitter One of the highlights of the Beer Bloggers Conference was a Night of Many Beers hosted by Camden Town brewery, most of which I spent hovering by the table of Swedish and Italian […] Toer de Geuze 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 6% Origin: Lembeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.boon.be Traditional lambic crocks and samples at Boon, Lembeek On very rare occasions I taste a beer that’s so extraordinary it sends my rating system off the scale, and this, sampled direct from one of the gigantic oak […] |
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