Category / Craft Beer

  • With St Patrick’s Day fast approaching (17 March 2015), you’ll likely be stocking up on that most Irish of beers: Guinness. Well you needn’t just drink that. The land of leprechauns and shamrocks is also boasts a budding craft beer industry. As you’ll see in this infographic by HomeBrewWest, Ireland’s craft beer industry has nearly tripled […]

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  • ABV: 5% Availability: James Squire Four Wives Pilsener is an Australian “craft beer” (the Malt Shovel Brewery that owns the James Squire brand is itself owned by Australasian food and beverage company Lion Nathan, which is owned by Japanese company Kirin). At the time of writing, James Squire Four Wives Pilsener is only available on […]

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  • On the same night as the Academy Awards in Hollywood, beer lovers in Vancouver were celebrating their favourite beers and breweries at the annual Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) beer awards. The 1,500-strong local chapter of CAMRA – an organisation dedicated to the promotion and responsible consumption of craft beer – conducts a poll every […]

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  • 25 February 2015 - Best Beer HQ

    News: 30 new London craft breweries open in 2014

    The craft beer revolution is gathering pace in London right now, with a record number of new craft breweries opening last year. In what was a bumper year for craft beer enthusiasts in London, 30 new breweries opened in the English capital – one more than in 2013 and nearly twice as many as in […]

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  • 18 February 2015 - Best Beer HQ

    Craft beer review: Founders 1946 Pilsner

    ABV: 5% Bottle: I love the look of the Founders craft brewery’s range of beers. Each one has a year and the label has a picture to go with that year.  In this case, the picture on the beer label is of a red-headed woman in a polka-dot bikini and the year is 1946, the year […]

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