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Weihenstephaner Vitus Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 7.7% Origin: Freising, Bayern, Germany Website: www.weihenstephaner.de My 2012 top tastings feature not just the brewery that claims to be Britain’s oldest (Shepherd Neame), but the one that claims to be the world’s oldest too. Weihenstephan, or ‘Holy Stephen’, began brewing as a Benedictine monastery in Freising […] Schneider Weisse Tap X Mein Nelson Sauvin. Top Tastings 2012 ABV: 7.3% Origin: Kelheim, Bayern, Germany Website: www.schneider-weisse.de Of all the great European brewing industries, Germany’s seems the most conservative, complacent and insulated from international trends. Many of the country’s vast numbers of brewers still seem to think no further than their immediate […] Top Tastings 2011 (bottled Cuvée d’Oscar), Beer sellers: Abbaye des Saveurs ABV: 6.5% and 7.5% Origin: Lochristi, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen Website: craigallan.fr, www.proefbrouwerij.com Craig Allan Cuvée d'Oscar (brewed at Proef) These beers are produced in Belgian Flanders by a Scottish brewer based in Picardy, northern France, and are decidedly international at heart. Craig […] Beer sellers: Zlý Časy / Pivkupectví ABV: 6.6% Origin: Varnsdorf, Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic Website: www.pivovar-kocour.cz Kocour Weizenbock Another new Czech micro brewing internationally inspired craft beers alongside interpretations of indigenous lager styles, Kocour — ‘Tomcat’ — was founded by Josef Šusta and Honza Kočka in 2008 in Varnsdorf, in the far west […] Originally published in What’s Brewing November 2002 Origin: Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany ABV: 8 per cent Buy from specialist beer shops and mail order, occasionally supermarkets Schneider Aventinus The Schneider brewery, founded in 1872, is a relative newcomer by German standards. In 1927 the company acquired its present site, the former ducal brewery at […] |
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