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Fuller’s Past Masters Old Burton Extra Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 7.3% Origin: London W4, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk Burton Ale is one of the great near-lost beer styles, and one that has intrigued certain beer writers (including myself) thanks in part to its difficult to explain contemporary obscurity. Most beer enthusiasts who read the […] FiftyFifty Eclipse Imperial Stout 2011, white wax version Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 9.5% Origin: Truckee, California, USA Website: www.fiftyfiftybrewing.com Craft brewers, particularly in the United States, are increasingly recognising the potential for “event beers” and limited editions in capturing the growing market of beer connoisseurs prepared to pay over the odds for something […] Deschutes / Hair of the Dog Conflux No 1 — Collage Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 11.6% Origin: Bend, Oregon, USA Website: www.deschutesbrewery.com, www.hairofthedog.com Two of the best known and highest achieving craft breweries in the general vicinity of Portland, Oregon, got together to produce this long anticipated collaboration beer. Over two years in […] Batemans Combined Harvest Multigrain Beer Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 4.4% Origin: Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, England Website: www.bateman.co.uk Under its picturesque disused windmill, Batemans has proved one of England’s more enduring and adaptable independent breweries since half the Bateman family took the leap of faith necessary to buy out the other half and keep the […] Arbor Ales Brigstow Bitter. Pic: Wonker – Creative Commons Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 4.3% Origin: Bristol, England Website: arborales.co.uk Bristol is one of Britain’s more exciting beer cities at the moment, with some outstanding pubs, a small but growing cluster of decent small breweries and a flourishing homebrew scene. Besides Bath Ales, actually […] Anchor Brewing Company, Mariposa Street, San Francisco, California 94107 Top Tastings 2012 (Porter) ABV: 6%, 5.6% and 5% Origin: San Francisco, California, USA Website: www.anchorbrewing.com Despite numerous visits to San Francisco in recent years I hadn’t yet got round to visiting the famous Anchor brewery – arguably the motherlode of the current craft […] Adnams Southwold Bitter in minicasks. Pic: Adnams. Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 3.7% Origin: Southwold, Suffolk, England Website: adnams.co.uk I’ve long regarded Adnams Southwold Bitter as one of the benchmark examples of a traditional English cask bitter, an outstanding demonstration of the genius of the best old estabished British breweries for achieving depth and […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 6.8% Origin: Manchester, England Website: www.marblebeers.co.uk Marble/Emelisse Earl Grey IPA. Pic: The Ormskirk Baron, www.theormskirkbaron.com. A serious looking 750ml bottle from Manchester’s marvellous Marble brewery can usually be relied upon to contain something at least interesting, but they’ve excelled themselves with Marble Earl […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2012 Top Tastings 2012 (Siberia) ABV: 3.5% and 5.9% Origin: Ilkley, Bradford, England Website: www.ilkleybrewery.co.uk Ilkley Mary Jane It’s a generational thing, not a Yorkshire thing. When I heard that the Ilkley brewery’s flagship cask ale goes by the name of Mary Jane, it made perfect sense. The […] |
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