Dominic Roskrow - Craft Beer - More than 100 of the world’s top craft beers

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Talking about a revolution

What is a craft beer?

Beer styles

A – Z of craft beers

3 Monts

Abominable Winter Ale

Amarillo Sour

Anchor Porter

Anosteké

Audit Ale

Axe Edge

Backyard Lazy Daze

Bam Noire

Battledown Original

Bede’s Chalice

Beyond Modus IV

Bitter & Twisted

Black Bishop

Black Grouse

Bling Bling

Bluebird Premium XB

Boundary Export Stout

Bracia

Broken Dream

Brooklyn Lager

Brugse Zot Blond

Buxton Anglo-Belgique

Calypso

Caribbean Chocolate Cake

Casey Saison

Celis White

Clogwyn Gold

Coolship Cerise

Crafty Dan 13 Guns

Cross Bones

Cuvee de Tomme

De Ranke XXX-Bitter

Dead Pony Club

Dennis Hopp’r

Ein Stein

Engine Vein

Ensorcelled

Falkon Kamsot

Farmer’s Reserve Blueberry

Farmhouse Red

First World Problems

FMB 101

Foundation 11

Fraoch Ale

Freedom Amber Rye

Friday

Funk

Gadds’ No 3

Gentleman’s Wit

Ghost Ship

Ginormous

Gonzo Imperial Porter

Goose IPA

Green Devil

Gueuze Tilquin à l’Ancienne

Guldenberg

Gunnamatta Earl Grey IPA

Halcyon

Hardknott Azimuth

Headless

Heart & Soul

Hibernation

Hof ten Dormaal Saison

Hop Gun

Hop Hog

Hopfenstopfer Citra Ale

Howling Pils

Imperial Extra Double Stout

Jaipur

Jambe-de-Bois

Jambo!

Kaleidoscope

Kasteel Rouge

Keller Pils

Kernel Pale Ale

Kingpin

Kiwanda

Kiwi Rising

Kuehnes Blonde

La Corne du Bois des Pendus Tripel

Lazy Haze

Mariana Trench

Midnight Sun

Mont des Cats Bière Trappiste

Mr Trotter’s Chestnut Ale

Noblesse VSOP

Old Freddy Walker

Passion Drop

Peanut Butter Milk Stout

Peppercorn Saison

Polygraph

Proper Job

Punk IPA

Quartz Heart

Quintet

Radical Road

Red Sky

Rhetoric Edition 4.1

Rübaeus

Saison à la Provision

Salty Kiss Gooseberry Gose

Shape Shifter

Siberia Rhubarb Saison

Single Hop Kohatu Mango Femme Fatale

Sour Grapes

Sourdough

Stateside Saison

Sun Dazed

Sunday

Tempest Harvest

Three Grain Belgian Blonde

Ticketybrew Dubbel

Tournay Noire

Twilight of the Idols

Urban Fox

Whitewalker

Wolf

Worker’s Comp

Wu Gang Chops the Tree

Index

Picture Credits

About the Author

About the Publisher

Talking about a revolution

Take a look at today’s craft brewing industry and it’s hard to believe that as recently as the turn of the millennium the perception of beer brewing was of scruffy, hippy types in sandals, geekily discussing secondary fermentations.

Back then it was all about real ale in the United Kingdom, and about proper beer in America. To outsiders the battle for beer was just that – a campaign against mass produced and homogenous beer, and especially lager. Unless it was a lager produced in Continental Europe. Or in a garage in Portland, Oregon.

The problem was that some of the alternatives weren’t particularly appealing. Flat, scuzzy, cloudy concoctions might have been considered real by the diehards, but for many of the rest of us, they were just really bad.

Around that time, though, something changed. And when it did, it changed fast.

As Editor of Beers of the World , I remember sitting one Saturday evening sipping a new American craft beer – something from Rogue if I remember correctly – waiting to be interviewed on an American radio programme about beer. I could hear the two hosts on the show chatting about some new ale or other, and I recall being amazed by their passion and enthusiasm, and their knowledge of their subject. It was unnerving.

And that sort of passion flowed through the United States from Alaska to the Alamo as craft brewing took hold, as scores of enthusiasts turned their home brewing hobby into a business. Some brewers set out modestly and chose to stay that way.

Some started small but evolved into substantial businesses, moving to ever more sizeable premises and creating new jobs as they went. Some had grandiose aspirations from the outset, and are now living their dream.

Perhaps inevitably the United Kingdom would follow. All the pieces were in place due to years of work by the Campaign for Real Ale and organisations such as the Small Independent Brewers’ Association (SIBA), which has now morphed into the Society of Independent Brewers, and the Independent Family Brewers of Britain (IFBB). Regional brewers were becoming more adventurous as they sought to create a niche for their beers among the plethora of brands marketed by big producers. Outstanding beer writers and a new generation of bloggers were writing about craft beer to a curious and broadminded beer community. Home brewing has long been popular in Britain, and some home brewers had become very good at it. Beer tourism to Belgium, The Netherlands and France had grown in popularity, and regional and small brewers were thriving due to favourable tax breaks.

When the phenomenon swept through Britain, the new producers carried with them many traditional European breweries with histories going back centuries, paying tribute to them, trying to reproduce their specific styles of beer, and resurrecting old redundant recipes.

Today’s craft brewers come in all shapes and sizes. Of course the usual suspects are in the mix, and there are countless stories of beer-loving friends turning long-held dreams of making exciting beers into reality. But there are less obvious candidates, too: solicitors and accountants who have turned their backs on the hustle and bustle of city life to embrace something altogether more sedate and satisfying; farmers who have turned a spare outbuilding into a brewery; restaurateurs and pub licensees keen to offer customers a home produced beer.