Beer Viking » Dark Ale http://www.beerviking.com Hunting for the Best Beer in the Universe Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Additional Beers on at the Wandsworth Common Beer Festival this weekend March 27-28 http://www.beerviking.com/2010/03/additional-beers-on-at-the-wandsworth-common-beer-festival-this-weekend-march-27-28/ http://www.beerviking.com/2010/03/additional-beers-on-at-the-wandsworth-common-beer-festival-this-weekend-march-27-28/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:53:52 +0000 Doc D http://www.beerviking.com/2010/03/additional-beers-on-at-the-wandsworth-common-beer-festival-this-weekend-march-27-28/

EXTRA BEERS NOT PRINTED IN THE PROGRAMME

(AVAILABLE the SATURDAY & SUNDAY March 27-28)

Art Brew, North Chideock Dorset (NEW BREWERY)

Be the very first in London to try these new beers from a new Brewery!

  • Art Nouveau 3.9% High in hop content but relatively low in alcohol
  • i-Beer 4.0% A golden vanilla flavoured beer. Yes, vanilla. i-Beer as in i-pod
  • Renaissance 4.5% Mid brown in colour. Caramel notes. East Kent Goldings hops.
  • Tempest Stout 4.6% Dark ale. Classic chocolate/coffee roasted barley flavour
  • Monkey IPA 6.4% Proper IPA. Stuffed with hops
  • Spanked Monkey 6.4%  Not for the faint hearted. Chilli flavoured IPA. I kid you not.

Ballards Nyewood Hampshire

  • Wassail 6% Strong full bodied sensational barley wine. Tawny red.

Downton Salisbury, Wiltshire

  • Chocolate Orange 5.8% What festival would be complete without this masterpiece from Martin at Downton.. Deservedly popular at every festival.
  • Mad Hare 4.4% Seasonal session bitter
  • Honey Porter 4.4%
  • New Forest 3.8% New well hopped session bitter. Recommended
  • Honey Blonde 4.3% Straw coloured honey beer

Sambrook’s Battersea, London

  • Wandle Ale 3.8% Amber coloured. Citrus hints and bitterness that lingers to the finish. Launched at this festival exactly a year ago this week

Shepherd Neame Faversham, Kent

  • Ghost 4.1%  Must try. Micro brew from Sheps this was last years festival favourite. A jet black double stout.
Deleted Beers Not Available

Hidden  Hidden Pleasure..Failed to deliver. Not answering phone may have ceased

Tring Legless Lal’s Winter Ale. Sold out before delivery date. Well, it is Spring after all.

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]]> http://www.beerviking.com/2010/03/additional-beers-on-at-the-wandsworth-common-beer-festival-this-weekend-march-27-28/feed/ 0 Additional Beers on at the Wandsowrth Common Beer Festival this weekend March 27-28 http://www.beerviking.com/2010/03/additional-beers-on-at-the-wandsowrth-common-beer-festival-this-weekend-march-27-28/ http://www.beerviking.com/2010/03/additional-beers-on-at-the-wandsowrth-common-beer-festival-this-weekend-march-27-28/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:52:18 +0000 Doc D http://www.beerviking.com/2010/03/additional-beers-on-at-the-wandsowrth-common-beer-festival-this-weekend-march-27-28/

Wandsowrth Common Beer Festival

EXTRA BEERS NOT PRINTED IN THE PROGRAMME

(AVAILABLE the SATURDAY & SUNDAY March 27-28)

Art Brew, North Chideock Dorset (NEW BREWERY)

Be the very first in London to try these new beers from a new Brewery!

  • Art Nouveau 3.9% High in hop content but relatively low in alcohol
  • i-Beer 4.0% A golden vanilla flavoured beer. Yes, vanilla. i-Beer as in i-pod
  • Renaissance 4.5% Mid brown in colour. Caramel notes. East Kent Goldings hops.
  • Tempest Stout 4.6% Dark ale. Classic chocolate/coffee roasted barley flavour
  • Monkey IPA 6.4% Proper IPA. Stuffed with hops
  • Spanked Monkey 6.4%  Not for the faint hearted. Chilli flavoured IPA. I kid you not.

Ballards Nyewood Hampshire

  • Wassail 6% Strong full bodied sensational barley wine. Tawny red.

Downton Salisbury, Wiltshire

  • Chocolate Orange 5.8% What festival would be complete without this masterpiece from Martin at Downton.. Deservedly popular at every festival.
  • Mad Hare 4.4% Seasonal session bitter
  • Honey Porter 4.4%
  • New Forest 3.8% New well hopped session bitter. Recommended
  • Honey Blonde 4.3% Straw coloured honey beer

Sambrook’s Battersea, London

  • Wandle Ale 3.8% Amber coloured. Citrus hints and bitterness that lingers to the finish. Launched at this festival exactly a year ago this week

Shepherd Neame Faversham, Kent

  • Ghost 4.1%  Must try. Micro brew from Sheps this was last years festival favourite. A jet black double stout.
Deleted Beers Not Available

Hidden  Hidden Pleasure..Failed to deliver. Not answering phone may have ceased

Tring Legless Lal’s Winter Ale. Sold out before delivery date. Well, it is Spring after all.

Posted via email from beerviking’s posterous

]]> http://www.beerviking.com/2010/03/additional-beers-on-at-the-wandsowrth-common-beer-festival-this-weekend-march-27-28/feed/ 0 Thornbridge Bracia, Derbyshire… http://www.beerviking.com/2009/02/thornbridge-bracia-derbyshire/ http://www.beerviking.com/2009/02/thornbridge-bracia-derbyshire/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:31:05 +0000 Twitter http://www.beerviking.com/2009/02/thornbridge-bracia-derbyshire/ Thornbridge Bracia, Derbyshire, A dark dark ale. 9%. Pours like nothing I’ve seen before. the head is dark brown & comes out like treacle

]]> http://www.beerviking.com/2009/02/thornbridge-bracia-derbyshire/feed/ 0 Chimera Dark Delight, Wiltshir… http://www.beerviking.com/2009/01/chimera-dark-delight-wiltshir/ http://www.beerviking.com/2009/01/chimera-dark-delight-wiltshir/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:09:12 +0000 Twitter http://www.beerviking.com/2009/01/chimera-dark-delight-wiltshir/ Chimera Dark Delight, Wiltshire, 6%; Dark Ale; Btl; Poured out near black. Challenger, East Kent Goldings, Pioneer and Organic Fuggles.16/20

]]> http://www.beerviking.com/2009/01/chimera-dark-delight-wiltshir/feed/ 0 Rother Valley Blues, Sussex, V… http://www.beerviking.com/2009/01/rother-valley-blues-sussex-v/ http://www.beerviking.com/2009/01/rother-valley-blues-sussex-v/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:16:06 +0000 Twitter http://www.beerviking.com/2009/01/rother-valley-blues-sussex-v/ Rother Valley Blues, Sussex, Very dark ale, reminds me of a black lager. Quite smokey with a burnt coffee tang. Phoenix and Goldings hops.13

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]]> http://www.beerviking.com/2008/12/hogs-back-advent-winter-ale/feed/ 0 Dark Star Smokey http://www.beerviking.com/2008/11/dark-star-smokey/ http://www.beerviking.com/2008/11/dark-star-smokey/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:49:54 +0000 thetank http://www.beerviking.com/?p=359 Had to stop in the Evening Star to make sure to try the Dark Star Brewing Co. November Beer of the Month – Smokey.

UPY 679
Creative Commons License photo credit: gentlemanrook

A 5% Bavarian style dark ale.   Quite interesting very dark brown in colour.  Taste starts with a well-rounded chocolate then a sharp, dry bitterness comes through.  Very nice and worth seeking out.

Here’s what Dark Star has to say about this one:

5.0% Smokey (November)
Deep golden coloured Bavarian style ale using hardwood smoked barley malt. The smokiness is purposefully restrained to avoid the heaviness of some rauchbier and ensure that the second (or third!) pint is as enjoyable as the first.

]]> http://www.beerviking.com/2008/11/dark-star-smokey/feed/ 0 Some Findings on the British Columbia, Canada Craft Brew Scene http://www.beerviking.com/2008/10/some-findings-on-the-british-columbia-canada-craft-brew-scene/ http://www.beerviking.com/2008/10/some-findings-on-the-british-columbia-canada-craft-brew-scene/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:02:28 +0000 thetank http://www.beerviking.com/2008/10/09/some-findings-on-the-british-columbia-canada-craft-brew-scene/ The Tank recently went to British Columbia to stay in Vancouver and then Kelowna with plenty of ignorance and after a week can report back with great excitement about the number of tasty brews being brewed there.

As I was doing some Daddy Day Care, I wasn’t actually able to get to visit any breweries and so my research was purely arm chair and virtual.

The one brewery that interested me the most but sadly I wasn’t able to try was Crannóg Ales.  They currently don’t do any bottling and have a limited distribution but from the following description you can probably understand why the Tank wants to give these guys some serious attention at some point.

Crannóg Ales is Canada’s only Certified Organic farmhouse microbrewery, one of only a handful of such breweries in the world. We brew unfiltered, unpasteurized ales using only organic ingredients, some of which come right from our own farm.

Of those that I did try Phillips Brewing, Victoria and Cannery Brewing, Penticton were my favourites followed closely by Mt. Begbie, Revelstoke.  I also tried Tin Whistle, Penticton which was fine and was disappointed with Granville Island Brewing, Vancouver.  On a previous visit to Kelowna this year, I was able to try the local Tree Brewing but this visit was about sampling as many different beers as possible.

Here’s a list of my favourite beers I was able to sample:

I came across the Craft Brewers Association of British Columbia after all ready having put in some hard graft but as you can see from the screengrab below they seem to have all the good ones signed up.

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