Top FIVE Beers Every Beer Lover Should Know

Whether you are just beginning to explore the world of beer or you are a seasoned beer snob, these are brews that you should know. In compiling this list, I’ve tried to put together a list of beers that are 1) solid representatives of their respective styles 2) seem to have a decent market saturation so you will have a chance of finding them 3) generally cover the spectrum of beer styles.

1) Paulaner Hefe-Weizen - the best representation of this style, Paulaner, is easily found almost anywhere. Chill a bottle and pour it in a glass making sure to get all of that yeast out of the bottom of the bottle. Many fans of this style like to squeeze a lemon into their glass. That’s fine but save that for the second one. For the first, just enjoy this hallmark of Bavarian brewmasters’ craft all on its own.

2) Chimay Trappist Ales - The entry for the Trappist ales, a rich malty style noted for being crafted by monks, is Chimay. You will find that a few varieties are available from the Chimay brewery but any of them will do nicely.

3) Sierra Nevada Pale Ale - this is a great example of the American interpretation of this classic English brew. It is amber colored and has a nice balanced flavor. It is hopped with distinctive Cascade hops.

4) Guinness Dry stout - This famous beer is perhaps one of the best known beers in the world. With a small dose of beer soured by lactic acid bacteria in each batch, Guinness might not be the prototypical dry stout but it is so ubiquitous it is hard to deny it a spot on my list. Other perhaps more correct choices for this style would be Murphy’s or Beamish Stout.

5) Hoegaarden Wit Bier - Hoegaarden is at the fore of a revival of the Belgium white, an unusual wheat beer. This is one of the best examples of the mix of spicy yeast and cloudy white that marks a Belgium white.

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An Halloween Beer Mixed Case soon available at Beerhere.co.uk!

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Oktoberfest Is Here

Oktoberfest is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich, Germany during late September (and running to early October). It is one of the most famous events in Germany and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year, and is an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.

The Munich Oktoberfest, traditionally, takes place during the sixteen days up to and including the first Sunday in October. In 1994, the schedule was modified in response to German reunification so that if the first Sunday in October falls on the 1st or 2nd, then the festival will go on until October 3 (German Unity Day). Thus, the festival is now 17 days when the 1st Sunday is October 2 and 18 days when it is October 1.

At BeerHere we have come up with a Oktoberfest Mix Tasting case for those who are not fortunate enough to get themselves over to Munich. Including the Paulaner, Augustiner, Hofbrau, Spaten, Erdinger, and Lowenbrau Oktoberfest special brews, with a free erdinger glass. So come on get in the spirit and enjoy Oktoberfest in style.

The World's Best Beers are available at Beerhere

The World’s Best Beers 2009 have been crowned by Beer of the World, the UK beer magazine. After five months and three separate rounds of tasting, the world's best beer listing is now available!
You can see below that most of them are available at Beerhere!




WORLD'S BEST Ale
World’s Best Dark Ale
World’s Best Strong Dark Ale
World’s Best Barley Wine
Robinson’s Old Tom (8.5%) ENG

HIGHLY COMMENDED


Standard Pale Ale
Hook Norton Old Hooky (4.6%) ENG
Wye Valley Butty Bach (4.5%) ENG

Premium Lager
St Austell Admiral’s Ale (5%) ENG

Golden Ale
Purity UBU (4.5%) ENG
Hook Norton Hooky Gold (4.2%) ENG

Abbey Ale
Brasserie St Feuillien Triple (8.5%)
Oud Beersel Bersalis (9.5%) BEL

Special Pale Ale
Delirium Tremens (8.5%) BEL
Dorothy Goodbody’s Country Ale (6%) ENG

Standard Dark Strong Ale
Het Anker Gouden Carolus Classic (8.5%) BEL

WORLD'S BEST Saison
Brasserie St Feuillien Saison (6.5%)

WORLD'S BEST Lager
Waldhaus Diplom Pils (4.9%)

WORLD'S BEST Strong Lager
Cruzcampo Gran Reserva (6.4%) SPA

WORLD'S BEST Wheat Beer
Brasserie Du Bocq Blanche De Namur (4.5% Abv) BEL

WORLD'S BEST Dark Wheat Beer
Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier Dunkel (5.3%) GER

WORLD'S BEST Stout/ Porter
WORLD'S BEST Baltic Porter
Baltika No.6 Porter (7%) RUS

HIGHLY COMMENDED (dry stout)
Hook Norton Double Stout (4.8%) ENG

WORLD'S BEST Dortmunder
DAB Original (5%) GER

WORLD'S BEST Fruit Beer
Früli Strawberry (4.1%) BEL

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Liefmans Kriek (6%) BEL


WORLD'S BEST Kriek Beer
Oud Beersel Oud Kriek (6.5%) BEL

WORLD'S BEST Lambic/Geuze Beer
Oud Beersel Oude Gueuze (6%) BEL

18.2% Brewdog Tokyo available at Beerhere

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Barack Obama is also having a Beer at the end of the day

It's official, Barack Obama is Part of the Beer Conspiracy!
In perhaps the most unusual sitdown of his administration, President Barack Obama hosted Prof Henry Gates, a prominent black scholar, and Sgt James Crowley, a white police sergeant, for beers in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday evening.



Mr Obama was hoping to defuse the angry racial furore that has raged since Sgt Crowley arrested Prof Gates for disorderly conduct at the Harvard academic’s own home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 16.

The President has acknowledged that he fuelled the controversy when he said that the police “acted stupidly” for arresting Prof Gates after he protested vociferously about Sgt Crowley’s actions during a burglary investigation.
Mr Obama invited the two men and Vice-President Joe Biden to join him for a symbolic beer and chat and to talk over their differences.


Source: Daily Telegraph

Brewdog Brewery Under Fire!

The legendary Scottish craft brewery Brewdog has was under fire yesterday from critics and various newspapers.

The award winning brewery has released the new batch of Tokyo at 18.2% ABV (last year's was 12% ABV)
This highly anticipated beer is brewed with jasmine and cranberries in the kettle and then dry-hopped with bucket loads of American hops. After dry-hopping Brewdog then age the beer on fantastic French toasted vanilla oak chips for 4 weeks. The beer is fermented with a champagne yeast and uses an insane amount of malt.

All sounds great doesn't it?
Well not according to the Alcohol Focus Scotland chief executive Jack Law, who claims that beers with such a high ABV (alcohol by volume) could cause as much damage as binge drinking! "This company is completely deluded if they think that an 18.2% ABV beer will help solve Scotland's alcohol problems," he said. "It is utterly irresponsible to bring out a beer which is so strong at a time when Scotland is facing unprecedented levels of alcohol-related health and social harm. "Just one bottle of this beer contains six units of alcohol - twice the recommended daily limit."

I personally can't see what all the fuss is about! Brewdog are only releasing a small batch of 3000 samples of Brewdog Tokyo. The beer can be ordered from the Brewdog website here and can be delivered outside of the UK. These 3000 bottles will go all over the place (to be precise Around 2,000 bottles have been sold to retailers abroad, and only 1,000 remain in the UK)so our friend Jack Law doesn't really have to worry about the "Scotland's alcohol problems" as the UK let alone Scotland won't be the sole receiver of this devilish beer.



"All we can see is that it will add to the binge drinking culture. They are promoting the high ABV which they should not be allowed to do." says Sarah Matthews from the British Liver Trust.

Brewdog have priced the beer at just shy of £10 pounds per 330ml bottle and encouraged it as a beer to savor. At this price I can't really see any binge drinkers forking out £10 for 330ml of drunken fun! Binge drinkers have little interest in this kind of beer. They are far more likely to pop down to the local CO-OP and spend £3 on a litre and a half of white lightning! Never mind faffing about online and waiting patiently for their £10 bottle of tiny Tokyo. Brewdog Tokyo is marketed to people who enjoy and understand beer not hoodlums.

The ABV is so high as it is used as a backbone to maintain the unique body and flavours of this very special beer.

Health campaigners should find something far more important to worry about and take a step back to admire this outstanding technical achievement!


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Homebrewing

Homebrewing carries with it an image of middle-aged men in baggy jumpers and broken spectacles, hiding in their garden sheds, searching for that elusive drinkable beer, like alchemists looking for gold, but merely producing an undrinkable flat brown liquid.

The truth is slightly different.

Homebrewing has gained in popularity since the late 1970s and early 1980s as a reaction to the few major breweries which produced only streamlined beers for the mass market. Since then, micro-brewers (small breweries which typically make a regional beer) and brewpubs (pubs which brew their own beer sold only in the pub) have had their small market share, as has homebrewing.

A few companies and micro-brewers, many of which had been in the homebrew brigade themselves, filled a gap in a niche market and are producing brewing kits that are foolproof. It is now possible to go into a shop on any high street and buy a brewing kit. Often the instructions on these are straightforward and the results taste pretty damn good, too. Buy the equipment, sterilise it, open the can, add some boiling water, stir, add some cold water, add the yeast sachet, leave for a while, drink.

With a little time, patience and care, anyone can do it.

Beerhere stocks some of the beers from micro breweries around the UK (see link)