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ABV: 8% Origin: Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland Website: www.harviestoun.com A shorter version was originally published in BEER November 2008. For more smoky beers see previous post. Harviestoun Ola Dubh Special Reserve For a fine but mellow lightly charred experience I recommend Harviestoun Ola Dubh Special Reserve – not bottle conditioned but currently one of […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 5% Origin: Wambeek, Vlaams Brabant, Vlaanderen Website: www.detroch.be De Troch Chapeau Lambic De Troch of Wambeek is one of the lambic breweries you really wish you could think more highly of. Its pedigree is impeccable: it’s a farmhouse brewery founded by Pieter de Troch in 1780 in the lambic […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 5.8% Origin: Esquelbec, Nord, France Website: www.brasseriethiriez.com Brasserie Thiriez Daniel Thiriez seems incapable of making uninteresting beer: everything I’ve tasted from his self-named brewery has had something to say for itself as well as being consistently of high quality. The brewery is in the historic beer country of French […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 7.3% Origin: Santa Rosa, California, USA Website: www.russianriverbrewing.com Russian River Temptation Barrel Aged Ale My first encounter with a US brewpub was a fortuitous one. When I first crossed the Atlantic some years back, it was to San Francisco, but rather than head straight for the city we first […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 10% Origin: Roeselare, Oost Vlaanderen Website: www.rodenbach.be Rodenbach Vin de Céréale Rodenbach of Roeselare is a Belgian beer icon, one of the key breweries celebrated by Michael Jackson back in the 1980s when he first introduced the country’s remarkable beer culture to the wider world. It’s renowned then as […] Top tastings 2009 ABV: 8.1% Origin: Bodegraven, Zuid Holland, Netherlands Website: www.brouwerijdemolen.nl De Molen Bloed, Zweet en Tranen Menno Olivier’s De Molen (“the mill”) brewery is in a 17th century windmill called De Ardkuif beside the Oude Rijn river bang in the middle of the Groene Hart, the rural “green heart” within the […] Top Tastings 2009 ABV: 8% Origin: Esen, West Vlaanderen Website: www.dedollebrouwers.be De Dolle Brouwers Cosmos Porter This experimental brew divides opinion. I’ve spoken to several people who have hated it, and even its brewer, Kris Herteleer, seemed in two minds about it when serving it to the public at the 2009 Zythos beer […] |
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