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The Hoptimist: January 2014
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Great beer from keg, cask and bottle. Friday, 3 January 2014. Each year Mark Dredge. Ask beer bloggers and geeks of the internet to vote for their favourite beers and beer related stuff of the year. After an extended break from blogging, here are my belated 2013 Golden Pints. Best UK Cask Beer: Oakham Citra. Best UK Keg Beer: Beavertown Gamma Ray. In 2013, there were definitely more contenders in this category. Than with the cask beers. I've recently been enjoying. Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer: O...
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The Hoptimist: August 2013
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Great beer from keg, cask and bottle. Saturday, 10 August 2013. Have set their brewers a challenge: to create a new and distinctive beer each month in 2013. They've called it the Brewer's Creations. Series and they are producing very limited batches of each beer. There's already been a Stout and a Pale Ale amongst others. This month, I got my hands on a mini-cask of Brewer's Creations 8, which is a four grain bitter made with barley, wheat, oats and rye. It's with Styrian Goldings and Cascade. Not entire...
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The Hoptimist: Focus on: Harbour Brewing
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Great beer from keg, cask and bottle. Thursday, 7 March 2013. Focus on: Harbour Brewing. Rhys and Eddie from Harbour. In the space of just over a year, Cornwall's Harbour Brewing. Have established themselves with an instantly recognisable brand and more importantly, an excellent range of beers. I spoke to Eddie Lofthouse from the brewery about their inspiration, future plans and how he feels about being part of the UK's brewing resurgence. Here's how he answered. Light Ale 3.7% (hoppy golden ale),. We ha...
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The Hoptimist: July 2013
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Great beer from keg, cask and bottle. Tuesday, 23 July 2013. Back to Beer Blogging. My first beer back in the UK was from The Kernel. This blog has been pretty dormant for a while. In fact, if you happen to have visited, there may well have been little more than tumble-weeds rolling by. For the past couple months, I have been extremely busy in my day job and I was also out of the country for the entirety of June. Like a lot of countries, Indonesia has its national lager, in this case it is called Bintang.
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The Hoptimist: Wadworth Brewer's Creations
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Great beer from keg, cask and bottle. Saturday, 10 August 2013. Have set their brewers a challenge: to create a new and distinctive beer each month in 2013. They've called it the Brewer's Creations. Series and they are producing very limited batches of each beer. There's already been a Stout and a Pale Ale amongst others. This month, I got my hands on a mini-cask of Brewer's Creations 8, which is a four grain bitter made with barley, wheat, oats and rye. It's with Styrian Goldings and Cascade. Not entire...
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The Hoptimist: Wild Card Brewery
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Great beer from keg, cask and bottle. Friday, 15 March 2013. The beautifully presented jack of Clubs. Are a new brewery founded by old friends William Harris and Andy Birkby. As soon as I saw bottles of their red ale called Jack of Clubs, I was intrigued. Its stark and enigmatic packaging instantly caught my eye. I met up with the guys at Craft Beer Co. Islington to chat about Jack of Clubs, their future plans and opening a brewery at a pub in Walthamstow. Jack of Clubs on cask at the Warrant Officer.
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The Hoptimist: Siren Craft Brew to Launch
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Great beer from keg, cask and bottle. Sunday, 3 March 2013. Siren Craft Brew to Launch. The last couple of years have seen the launch of some excellent new breweries. Next to join the burgeoning UK craft beer scene are Berkshire based Siren Craft Brew. And the prospect has got me excited! Their four beers are as follows:. This is a 5.8% ABV west coast bright red ale. Siren promise us "a biscuit and burnt raisin malt base with peach and grapefruit spark.". This may well be the first brew if theirs that I ...
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The Hoptimist: Get in touch
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Great beer from keg, cask and bottle. If you would like to contact me in relation to this blog, please use the form below. I will get back to you as quickly as I can. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Follow me on Twitter. There was an error in this gadget. Bar of the Month. Indy Man Beer Con. The Crown and Anchor. The Warrant Officer Walthamstow. Why 'craft keg' - whatever that is - is the saviour, not the enemy, of cask ale. Beer Garden Party at Haystack Mountain Golfcourse.
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The Hoptimist: Visiting London Fields Brewery
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Great beer from keg, cask and bottle. Saturday, 30 March 2013. Visiting London Fields Brewery. Brew-master Ben (C) London Fields Brewery. It feels like barely a week goes by at the moment without another brewery opening its doors in London. I sometimes find it hard to keep up. There is however, one London brewery that I've kept coming back to in the last year. A brewery that have positioned themselves right at the heart of Hackney's thriving beer scene: London Fields. C) London Fields Brewery. And is sup...
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The Hoptimist: Back to Beer Blogging
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Great beer from keg, cask and bottle. Tuesday, 23 July 2013. Back to Beer Blogging. My first beer back in the UK was from The Kernel. This blog has been pretty dormant for a while. In fact, if you happen to have visited, there may well have been little more than tumble-weeds rolling by. For the past couple months, I have been extremely busy in my day job and I was also out of the country for the entirety of June. Like a lot of countries, Indonesia has its national lager, in this case it is called Bintang.
