Craft Keg in the United Kingdom
What’s in a name? Everything it seems when it comes to casks and kegs in Britain. In the last year or so, a select crew of beer fans and brewers has begun proselytizing about what they regard as British beer’s ...
Adrian Tierney-Jones
Craft Keg Tasting Notes
Fuller’s London Porter (5.4%)—the nose features a dusting of mocha coffee and chocolate sprinkles, while the deep-throated notes of creamy chocolate and cold coffee on the palate are kept in line by a firm but subtle bitterness. Brewdog Punk IPA ...
Rediscovering Pils
It’s a sleepy Sunday lunchtime in Dobrany, a small town a few kilometres southwest of Pilsen. This is Bohemian beer country, deeply embedded in the lager lands of central Europe. Pivovar Modra Hvezda is a small brewery based in a ...
God’s Home Brew
Starry, starry night. The light is low in Orval’s brew house, giving its trinity of copper-clad lauter tuns and kettle the glow of a late sunset, while pinpricks of light adorn the ceiling, the first evening stars. A simple wooden ...
Renaissance of British Craft Lager
Appearances can be deceptive. The place is an old stone barn amid a group of farm buildings on the edge of a village in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds. This is an area of mellow stone, high hedges, winding lanes and long ...
Five British Craft Lagers
Meantime Helles, 4.4% Honeyed lemon nose; crisp, full-bodied mouth feel with delicate lemony notes, dry grainy finish. Freedom Pilsner, 5% Fine bitter lemon and grainy toasted white bread nose; soft mellow citrus on the palate with a lingering bitter finish. ...
Eight Reasons for a Saison
Saison Cazeau (Brasserie de Cazeau) Refreshing nose with definite notes of elderflower coming through, though they are not overpowering; creamy mouthfeel, more elderflower fruitiness and a sharp finish. 5% ABV Saison Deluxe (Southampton Publick House) Flinty, peppery and herby on ...
Saison: Flavors of the Countryside
In his magisterial The Brewmaster’s Table, Garrett Oliver wrote that if he were forced to drink just one beer style with food for the rest of his life it would be a Wallonian saison. Such a sense of certainty makes ...
