Best new beers of 2012…Elixir Benedictine Groove
For the penultimate offering in our list of best new British beers of 2012, we head back two months to October. A small-scale operation, contracting out to another brewery, launched their first beer – and it got everybody in Edinburgh talking… Benedictine Groove (5.5%) Elixir Brewing Company, Edinburgh (cask, released October) 2012 was very much […]
Best new beers of 2012…Marble Northern Quarter Bitter
The next in our list of best new British beers of 2012 (which we are posting in order of release) first appeared back in late August, and was the perfect example of how important context can be. A bitter – made in Manchester, named after an area of Manchester, and drunk in Manchester… Northern Quarter […]
Best new beers of 2012…Camden King Crimson
We’re now halfway through our annual best new British beers of the year feature with this, our third pick. So far, we’ve had an IPA and a black IPA, so next in line is…a red IPA. Well, a red IPA with a difference. Our third best new British beer of 2012 (in order of release, […]
Best new beers of 2012…Roosters Serlo de Burgh
Following our initial nomination of Buxton Imperial Black yesterday, our annual look back at the most memorable new British beers continues. We have five other places to fill in the list, and for our next choice, we head more or less due north from the Peak District, into the similarly picturesque North Yorkshire. There, in […]
Best new beers of 2012…Buxton Imperial Black
It’s the second week of December – and that means our annual look back at the most memorable new British beers is here again. Every year in this introduction I write how the UK brewing scene is defying the recession and the taxman, and every year our brewers make it more true. Over the next […]
BeerCast #67 – Beer of the Year 2011
BeerCast #67 – BOTY 2011. So it comes down to this – our annual Beer of the Year Show. We re-taste the top four highest scoring beers from our podcasts in 2011, and pick a winner. On the panel today – Richard, Shovels, MrB and Grooben. Stand by for a bonus feature at the end, as we blind-taste four extremely unusual French beers – each containing a mystery ingredient. How many will the panel correctly identify?
1. Rogue St Rogue Red Ale (5.2%)
2. Kernel IPA Citra (7.2%)
3. Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest (6.7%)
4. Thornbridge St Petersburg (7.7%)
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