Name: Yub Nub Brewers: Vibrant Forest Brewery, Emperor’s Brewery (United Kingdom) Style: Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer (Base Style: English Barleywine) ABV: 12.7% Review Year: 2021 Vibrant Forest Brewery teamed up with Damian Doherty of Emperor’s Brewery in 2020 for Yub Nub, a “Black Barley Wine” brewed with cacao nibs and dark malts. Geek fact: …
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Name: Yoda Condition (2020) Brewers: Nerdbrewing (Sweden), Emperor’s Brewery (United Kingdom) Style: Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer (Base Style: Imperial Stout) ABV: 12.3% Review Year: 2021 Brewed on May the 4th 2020, an Imperial Stout concocted with maple syrup and conditioned on home toasted coconut shreds, Yoda Condition is. Hmmm… a massive collaboration brew this is. Sweden’s …
Name: Roaster Coaster Brewers: BrewDog (United Kingdom/ United States), Evil Twin Brewing (Denmark/ United States) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Sweet Stout) ABV: 9% Review Year: 2020 BrewDog and Evil Twin teamed up for Roaster Coaster, a “Nitro Imperial Vietnamese Coffee Stout” that, as the name suggests, features mainly nitrogen and coffee. STYLE GUIDELINES This beer …
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Name: The Wolf of Glen Moray Brewer: Windswept Brewing Co. (Scotland, United Kingdom) Style: Specialty Wood-Aged Beer (Base Style: Wee Heavy) ABV: 9.2% Review Year: 2020 The Wolf of Glen Moray is a Scotch Ale/ Wee Heavy brewed by the award-winning brewery from the Scottish Highlands, Windswept Brewing Co. This Wee Heavy was aged in casks …
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Name: My Phone’s on Snooze Brewers: DEYA Brewing Company (United Kingdom) Style: Fruit Beer (Base Style: Berliner Weisse) ABV: 3.5% Review Year: 2020 My Phone’s on Snooze is a Fruit Berliner Weisse brewed by the Cheltenham-based DEYA Brewing Company. Loads of raspberry puree were used to flavor this beer. Theo Freyne established DEYA in 2015 …
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Name: Les Amis du Brassage (2020) Brewer: Burning Sky Brewery (United Kingdom), Fork Brewing (New Zealand) Style: Mixed-Fermentation Sour Beer (Base Style: Saison) ABV: 6.2% Review Year: 2020 Les Amis du Brassage is a collaboration between Burning Sky Brewery (United Kingdom) and Fork Brewing (New Zealand). This mixed fermentation Saison spent a year in oak barrels before it …
Name: Saison Houblon Brewer: Burning Sky Brewery (United Kingdom) Style: Saison (Standard) ABV: 5.2% Review Year: 2020 Saison Houblon is a crisp and modern take on the classic Belgian beer style by the English microbrewery, Burning Sky Brewery. This very refreshing and drinkable Saison was made with Nobel hops. STYLE GUIDELINES This beer is being …
In this latest batch review, we take a sensory trip to Bakewell, England not for Bakewell pudding but for three barrel-aged fruit sour beers from Thornbridge Brewery. Collectively, these beers feature gooseberry, cherry, and raspberry, as well as barrels that housed formerly Red and White Burgundy. Thornbridge Brewery was created in 2005 when the founders …
Name: Sploice Brewer: Pomona Island Brew Co. (United Kingdom) Style: Wild Specialty Beer ABV: 5% Review Year: 2020 Sploice is a “sour beer” brewed by the Pomona Island Brew Co. from Salford, England. This beer features a blend of mango, passion fruit, pineapple, and peach with a touch of lactose. STYLE GUIDELINES This beer is being …
In 2019, the Manchester-based Cloudwater Brew Co. worked with the Danish craft brewery, Dry & Bitter to recreate Mobile Speaker, their 2017 collaboration juicy and hazy “Double IPA”. However, this time around, the reboot of the original is joined by two brand new reinterpretations featuring different hop combinations. All three versions were dry-hopped at a …
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