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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, […] Gueuzerie Tilquin ABV: 4% Origin: Lembeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.gueuzerietilquin.be, www.boon.be Wooden former wine barrels at Gueuzerie Tilquin Meerts is something of a forgotten member of the lambic family, though a couple of centuries ago it was ubiquitous in the historic brewing region. It’s the spontaneously fermented equivalent of small beer, made with […] Gueuzerie Tilquin ABV: 5% Origin: Vlezenbeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.gueuzerietilquin.be, www.lindemans.be Brewhouse at Lindemans, Vlezenbeek The Lindeman family began brewing lambic as a sideline on their cereal farm at Vlezenbeek, just outside Brussels, in 1809, and only finally gave up farming to concentrate on beer in 1950. In the 1980s the brewery achieved […] Great British Beer Festival 2011 ABV: 6% Origin: Lembeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen (matured in Roma, Italy) Revelation Cat Craft Brewing Rome-based gyspy brewer Alex Liberati has been doing some strange stuff with unblended lambics from Boon and Girardin over the past few years. I wasn’t convinced by his single hop dry hopped lambics — […] Great British Beer Festival 2011 ABV: 10.2% Origin: Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands Website: http://www.brouwerijdemolen.nl/ De Molen Hot & Spicy in its Bordeaux cask at the Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court, London August 2011 The big wooden barrels full of weird and wonderful beers that De Molen’s Menno Olivier brings to the Belgian/Dutch/Italian bar […] Great British Beer Festival 2011 London beer tastings 2011 ABV: 9% Origin: London W4, England Website: www.fullers.co.uk Brewer's Reserve No 3 maturing in whisky barrels in a spare corner of the Fuller's brewery, London W4, January 2011 I make no apologies for choosing a release of Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve as one of […] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011 ABV: 8.2% Origin: Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland Website: http://www.innisandgunn.com/ Innis & Gunn Oak Aged Beer Scotland’s Innis & Gunn specialises in oak ageing beer — “like no other beer”, they’ve been known to claim rather inaccurately, although their take on the process is unusual. It came about when […] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 10% Origin: Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands Website: www.brouwerijdemolen.nl De Molen Hel en Verdoemenis 666 World renowned Dutch craft brewer Menno Olivier brews phenomenal beers in numerous styles, but perhaps his strongest suit is his imperial stouts, of which there are several, as well as variants within variants. ‘Hell and Damnation’ […] Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 11.5% Origin: Esen, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Website: www.dedollebrouwers.be De Dolle Brouwers Stille Nacht Reserva 2005 An extreme development of the cult classic ‘Silent Night’ strong, sweet Christmas ale from the eccentric Dolle Brouwers, this wood aged version takes a slighty stronger implementation of the same recipe, generously hopped with Nugget […] |
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