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Panil Barriquée Sour Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 8% Origin: Torrechiara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Website: www.panilbeer.com Italian craft brewers and drinkers seem to have taken easily to perceiving beer through a similar mindset to that used for wine. It’s an artisanal product with a definite provenance, served with food from attractive 750ml bottles. Some of […] Oskar Blues Old Chub Scotch Ale Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 8% Origin: Longmont, Colorado, USA Website: www.oskarblues.com 2012’s annual British Guild of Beer Writers reception on the eve of the Great British Beer Festival could almost have been tailor made to antagonise some of the more purist supporters of the festival itself – […] Maximus Stout 6 Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 6% Origin: Utrecht, Netherlands Website: www.brouwerijmaximus.nl My first visit to the Borefts Bierfestival at De Molen brewery in Bodegraven in September afforded me a chance to hang out in Utrecht for the first time in a few years – and unsurprisingly I kept bumping into beer […] Le Brewery Odo Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 6.6% Origin: Joué du Bois, Orne, France Website: www.le-brewery.com I know of several expatriate Brits involved with small breweries in France – an interesting country for beer at the moment as a new international craft brewing sensibility is supplementing and reinventing established regional styles. Steve Skews […] Knee Deep Simtra Triple India Pale Ale Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 11.3% Origin: Lincoln, California, USA Website: kneedeepbrewing.com I asked the staff of small but outstanding specialist drinks shop Healthy Spirits, in San Francisco’s Duboce Triangle, for a recommendation of a new West Coast IPA to try and was pointed to this example […] Jester King Le Petit Prince Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 2.9% Origin: Austin, Texas, USA Website: jesterkingbrewery.com It seems US craft beer drinkers, probably with some relief, are starting to realise there’s life below 5.5%. Session beer is one of the current buzz terms across the Atlantic, as brewers start to take up the […] Heineken Italia Moretti La Rossa Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 7.2% Origin: Milano, Lombardia, Italy Website: birramoretti.com Even before the current crop of craft brewers producing weird beers in designer bottles, Italy deserved at least a footnote in any survey of world brewing. Although more famous for its wines, there has long been a […] The unlikely handpump that lured the bloggerati — Greene King Old 5X on cask at the Great British Beer Festival, London, August 2012. Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 12% Origin: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Website: www.greeneking.co.uk It has to be admitted that these days the Greene King bar is rarely the hottest place […] Gueuze Girardin 1882 (Zwart etiket) Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 5% Origin: Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.brouwerijgirardin.com Girardin is arguably the most consistently and rootedly traditional of all the lambic breweries. The others were either founded since the self conscious revivalism of the 1970s or, like Cantillon, heavily influenced by it – or at […] |
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