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Born nearly 250 years ago, the Bass brewery in Burton-on-Trent, England has become an icon in brewing as one of the pioneers of the Burton brewing system. Thanks to an alchemy between malt, hops and the unique local water, Bass Ales were an immediate hit. Over the following century, Bass continued to expand and by 1877 it had become the world’s biggest brewery producing... Read more
RateBeer’s Best Awards are a great barometer of trends in the world of Craft Beer, and the 2019 edition has thrown up more than a few surprises. RateBeer’s Best Awards are a great barometer of trends in the world of Craft Beer and, like every year, the 2019 edition likely holds more than a few surprises. As well as waiting for your best seasonals from your... Read more
So, you’re half way through Dry January? How’s it going so far? If you said ‘tough’, then don’t worry, you’re among friends, and we’ve got ways of making the next two weeks just a little more bearable… The idea for Dry January comes from the UK, and a public health initiative aimed at reversing some of the damage done by... Read more
Avery Old Jubilation It’s a tough gig, and every year the challenge of brewing the beer for Beery Christmas’s No.24 spot gets a little bit tougher. The bar is set high, but once again our final brewery manages to top last year’s amazing contribution. Just! To conclude this year’s Beery Christmas adventure, the honour goes to Avery Brewing, a legendary... Read more
To Øl Gose to the Fyrreskov Flushed with the success of Santa's Hibernation, their contribution to Beery Christmas 2016, and Winter Wonderland in 2017, To Øl are back for the 2018 calendar with a brand-new recipe, but the same exceptional quality we've come to expect the other 364 days of the year! Based in Copenhagen, To Øl is an itinerant or nomadic... Read more
Amager and Crooked Stave – The not-so-mad scientists of Craft Beer One of Denmark’s foremost Craft Breweries, and another doyen of the RateBeer Top 100 club for many years running, Amager is the life’s work of two college buddies whose knowledge of biochemical processes – namely fermentation – proved invaluable after they graduated. In 2011,... Read more
Bosteels – Belgian Beer with heritage Back with another authentic Belgian recipe, ever since its foundation in 1791 by Evarist Bosteels, the Bosteels brewery has become the very definition of a family-business. In the same ownership for well over 200 years, the brewery has been managed by seven generations of the Bosteels family, brewing some of Belgium's most iconic... Read more
Brewing awesome beer Nomada what… Another new Beery Christmas newcomer, this time from the Barcelona suburb of Sabadell, Spain's Nomada Brewing blends tradition with innovation and a dash of Latin passion, constantly bending the rules to create new and exciting flavours. They love classic flavour combinations, using ingredients like orange, chilli, mint and yuzu, but... Read more
Thornbridge Brewery Coconut Chocolate Porter – Craft Beer from England’s green and pleasant land Another Beery Christmas alumnus, Thornbridge has been dazzling Beery Christmas fans for a few years now, and 2018 is no exception. Founded in 2005, Thornbridge Brewery is a highly-respected English brewery that now ranks among ratebeer's list of the world's top 100... Read more
Birra del Borgo goes to Patagonia: Santa Punch Imperial IPA Following the success of its brews for the 2016 and 2017 Beery Christmas, including 25 Dodici, a majestic Belgian Strong Dark Ale that held the prestigious 24 December spot, Italy's Birra Del Borgo is back by popular demand. Brewing with typical Italian flair, like so many Craft Breweries Birra Del Borgo grew from... Read more
La Débauche Berliner-Tana: Berlin via Antananarivo... Newcomers to Beery Christmas, based in the southern French city of Angouleme, the highly esteemed La Débauche infused their brewing with a very French sense of style from the word go. As famous for their elegantly designed labels as their brewing, this remarkable Craft Brewery has successfully married... Read more
Rose coloured glasses... Back once again following a rapturous reception in 2017, all the way from Chicago, Goose Island's story begins nearly 30 years ago in 1988, when founder John Hall opened his first Brewpub. Inspired by his extensive travels in Europe, and unable to find a decent Real Ale back in the USA, he was inspired to set up his own brewery. Consumed by this new... Read more
De Molen Hel & Verdoemenis Imperial Stout Like most Craft Breweries, Netherlanders De Molen are never happy unless they're creating. Over the last 15-some years, as well as brewing a sensational core range of regular brews, they've created literally thousands of small-batch recipes. Some are good, others are AMAAAAAAAZING!!!, but there’s never a bad or boring beer... Read more
Brussels Beer Project Tatie Tatin Founded in 2013 as a crowdfunding project, Brussels Beer Project’s philosophy is to take classic Belgian Beer Styles and bring them kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. Belgian Beer has no shortage of classic brews to choose from, but the guys at BBP thought the whole Belgian scene needed shaking up a bit. BBP: Leave the abbey,... Read more
La Virgen & Laugar Oso Honey Pale Ale Founded by three Spanish Craft Beer fanatics, Ana, César and Jaime, Madrid's award-winning La Virgen is one of the fastest growing names in European Craft Brewing. The trio first met at an advertising agency in San Francisco and, discovering a shared love of craft beer, they set about planning their new business venture. Upon... Read more
Cerveceria Mexicana La Bufadora Maibock “I'm gonna show you kids the time of your life. Get ready for two weeks at the happiest place on Earth...TIJUANA!!!!” -Krusty the Clown Cerveceria Mexicana is a Mexican brewery from Tijuana, a city in the northern-eastern corner of Baja California just a short drive east from the Pacific Ocean. Best known for its Dia de los... Read more
Omnipollo Mexican Vanilla Piña Colada Smoothie IPA If the name Omnipollo is familiar to you, that might just be because Omnipollo's brewer and artist-in-residence Karl Grandin provided the zodiak-inspired artwork for Beery Christmas 2017. For the uninitiated, Sweden's Omnipollo is one of the world's most famous Craft Breweries, and possibly the ultimate gypsy or... Read more
Basqueland Brewing Project Mimosa Pale Ale Based south of the Basque city of San Sebastien, the award-winning Basqueland Brewing Project is another welcome return to Beery Christmas, following its awesome entry to the 2017 Calendar. The brainchild of three Americans, this trio of gourmets, which includes one Michelin-starred chef, has built an up-and-coming brewery motivated... Read more
Founders Breakfast Stout Another highly popular Beery Christmas alumnus, Founders Brewing Company's story unfolds over more than 20 years, Michigan's Founders Brewing is a heart-warming, against-the-odds success story. Like so many Craft Brewers, Founders founders - the founders of Founders, that is - Mike Stevens and Dave Engbers quit their jobs to chase the dream of... Read more
Camden and Wicked Weed Versus IPA – North London meets North Carolina Long-term Beery Christmas fans will no doubt be delighted by the return of Camden Town Brewery. Founded in London in 2010 by Australian Jasper Cuppaidge, the multi-award-winning Camden Town Brewery is one of the UK's biggest Craft Beer success stories. This year Camden has teamed up with Wicked Weed... Read more
Hi, we hope you found today’s beer OK. Seems like it’s getting harder every day! But the search will be worth it… Brewski and Lervig: 100% Scandinavian Craft Beer! As well as becoming a regular fixture for Beery Christmas, all the way from Stavanger, Norway, the ever-popular Lervig is fast becoming a legend in European Craft Beer circles. In 2016 it joined... Read more
Oppigårds & Bierol Rural Hopfenweisse Hopfenweisse and Hopfen-wise… A long-time favourite of Saveur Bière and HOPT customers, not to mention a familiar face from previous Beery Christmas, Oppigårds is a family-run brewery from Dalarna, Sweden. Set on the farm they’ve called home since 1735, the brewery took shape in the mid-1980s,... Read more
Boxing Cat Ringside Red Vienna Lager Necessity is the mother of invention” – never was this truer than in the world of Craft Beer. Shanghai’s Boxing Cat is yet another Craft Brewery created by folk with a love of great beer and nowhere to drink it. Faced with a total absence of great beer, way back in 2007 ‘the three amigos’, Gary, Kelley and... Read more
Ninkasi, goddess of Beer! France's award-winning Ninkasi brewery is the brainchild of three young graduates. Tracing its history to a road-trip across the USA in the late 1990s, during their expedition Ninkasi's founders discovered the world of Craft Beer through the growing phenomenon of the BrewPub. Fast-forward more than 20 years, and the Ninkasi empire, named after the... Read more
Welcome back. We hope you managed to find Beer Number 2 ok. Today we’re in Scotland for Tempest’s gorgeous Cranachan, a Scotch Ale inspired by a classic Scottish dessert… There’s a storm brewing… Like so many top brewers, Beery Christmas newbloods Tempest Brewing’s story begins in a garage, as a small setup with big ideas. The goal to... Read more
Dois Corvos Saison Sur Mer All the way from Portugal’s historic capital, Lisbon, Dois Corvos is one of Beery Christmas 2018’s youngest Craft Breweries. Starting brewing in early 2014, the brewery has gone from strength to strength to become one of the hottest Craft Beer properties on the Iberian Peninsula. Based in a waterfront brewery in Lisbon’s eastern... Read more
Rules: GOLDEN EGG PROMOTION Terms and conditions “Golden Eggs" promotion Article 1: Organizer of the promotion INTERDRINKS (trading as SAVEUR BIERE), SAS whose registered office is located at 2, rue du Chemin Vert in FRETIN (59273) - RCS de LILLE 497 634 030, is organising from 18 to 22 April 2019, a competition with an obligation to purchase entitled Golden... Read more
The link between monasteries and beer has a long history, and now that history just got longer with the arrival of Tynt Meadow, England’s very first Trappist Beer. Brewed in Mount Saint Bernard in the very heart of Englad, this characterful English Strong Ale is already generating a lot of interest – and column inches! Authentic Trappist Beer Brewed at just a... Read more
One of the things we at Saveur Bière and HOPT love about Craft Beer is that it is endlessly reinventing itself. Sure, there are trends in Artisanal Brewing – 2018 was all about Milkshake IPAs, Sour Ales and beers brewed with mango, while 2019 looks likely to be remembered as the year of the Brut IPA – but for there to be trends, there have to be... Read more
There are a few events in the Craft Beer calendar that make any self-respecting Beer Geek’s pulse race, and Mikkeller’s legendary Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen is surely top of the list. With 100 of the world’s finest Craft Breweries in attendance, as well as wine, barista coffee, tattooists and even a running race, this is one unforgettable artisanal... Read more
Continuing the success of its very own homegrown Beer Festival, Italy’s primo Craft Brewery Birra del Borgo is back once again. Now in its 13th year, for three days at the beginning of June, Birra del Borgo throws open its doors to the public for Birra Del Borgo Day 2018, a chance to show off the beating heart of this super-successful artisan brewery. And the best... Read more
They said that vinyl was dead. They said exactly the same thing about Craft Beer. They were wrong. Both times. Yet again. As a format, vinyl was declared a thing of the past over 20 years ago, but like many good things, it wasn’t dead, just sleeping… In the same way as Artisan Ales, vinyl gives something back, gives you something more than the sanitized, clinical... Read more
Not only are the Dutch some of Europe’s most enthusiastic beer drinkers, they’re also among some of the most talented brewers, with gifted new Craft Breweries springing up on an almost weekly basis. In recognition of the country’s exceptional contribution to the world of Real Ale, every March Rotterdam hosts the Dutch Beer Challenge, an event celebrating... Read more
Picture the scene, Fifth Avenue, New York City, March 17th 2018 – Saint Patrick’s Day. 5th Avenue is a sea of Kelly green flags, shamrocks, leprechaun costumes and fake ginger beards. There are two things that will surprise first-time visitors to New York me - firstly it’s SO big. Really BIG. Big with a capital B.I.G. The second thing is that everyone is... Read more
I love not being cold. I love not getting up and coming home in the dark every day. I love not having to keep the windows closed. I love not chipping ice off the windscreen. And I particularly love that my wife stops using me to warm her feet up in bed. But it’s not just the things I don’t miss about the winter, there’s a lot of things I love about the spring... Read more
Birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries - the Battle of Agincourt for example - there are some things that come around once a year that are absolutely unforgettable, unmissable. The highlight of every Beer Geek’s year must surely be RateBeer’s beer of the year awards. Essential reading for fans of Craft Beer, the RateBeer Best Awards are a definitive list of everything... Read more
With Christmas now a distant memory, and still nearly two full months to go before Spring officially arrives, we arrive at the shortest month of the year, February. With the first signs of life arriving early this year – including spring flowers blooming in mid-January - there’s still a way to go yet before you can confidently put your winter coat back into the... Read more
As January draws to a close, true Scots and fans of Scottish culture from around the world get together to celebrate the life of Scotland’s best-loved Poet, the immortal Robert Burns. This tradition, dating back over 200 years, was first hosted by Burns’s friends some five years after his death. Also known as Robert Burns Day, Robbie Burns Day, Rabbie Burns Day or... Read more
Whether you’re a football fan or not, it’s impossible to deny that for pageantry and sheer spectacle nothing can compete with the FIFA World Cup Finals. Every four years the cream of international football comes together to compete in the highlight of every supporters’ sporting calendar. And for pleasure, pain and pure passion, the World Cup is one of the few... Read more
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So Christmas is over and now you're half way through Dry January. Congratulations if you made it this far – only another 44,640 looooooong minutes until February. Maybe it's your turn to be designated driver? Or perhaps you're just curious? Whatever your reason, there's never been a better time to try Alcohol Free beer! Low-alcohol and alcohol-free beers have been... Read more
Happy New Year, and welcome to Saveur Bière and Hopt’s brand-new Craft Beer blog. Following the success in 2017 of our paper-based magazine, Allez Hop!, we wanted to start 2018 by sharing our love of all things beer-related with all our customers. Allez Hop! was a huge success for Saveur Bière France, with almost 100,000 copies distributed to our... Read more
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