2011 Beer of the Year Preview
As things wind down over Christmas, the attention at BeerCast HQ turns towards our annual Beer of the Year Show. We tally up the scores achieved by each ale podcasted over the last twelve months, and take the four highest scoring for a re-sample. Which beer will follow on from Odell Isolation Ale and become […]
Best new beers of 2011…the best of the rest
List-making is par for the course at this time of year – which explains our recent flurry of posts detailing our favourite new British beers. The trouble with compiling lists, however, is that you can’t add everything (unless it’s one of those Channel 4 shows like ‘the best 100 children’s breakfast cereals’). Listing our six […]
Best new beers of 2011…Summer Wine Cohort
Our final best new release of 2011 is a beer that appeared only a few weeks ago – from a small-scale brewery in Yorkshire. The Summer Wine Brewery have been going for about three years – but recently have firmly thrust themselves into the crosshairs of the bloggerati. All of their beers pack a punch […]
Best new beers of 2011…RedWillow Fathomless
Only two more posts to come in our best new beers of the year feature – and for our penultimate gong we pay a visit to Macclesfield, and another producer who had a breakout year in 2011. Toby McKenzie’s RedWillow Brewery has set the blogs abuzz recently with some cracking beers – and a faithful […]
Best new beers of 2011…Kernel IPA 100 Centennial
Yesterday we brought you one of the breakout brewers of 2011 – Kelso’s Tempest Brewing. For the next of our best new beers of the year, we move on to the breakout brewer of 2010 (and possibly 2011 as well) – London’s finest; the Kernel Brewery. Evin O’Riordain and his team are capturing the attention […]
Best new beers of 2011…Tempest RyePA
The halfway point of our best new British beers feature sees us in June, at the Scottish Real Ale Festival in Edinburgh. Last year, the SRAF introduced us to the wonderful Fyne Ales Jarl – hopes were high for a similar Eureka moment in 2011. As it happened, the very first beer to pass our […]