262. Green Flash Brewing – Le Freak Ale
Jan11

262. Green Flash Brewing – Le Freak Ale

I announce each of my posts on Twitter (@1KBeers), and recently got a suggestion via Twitter from @Lauren_BILLYves – who as it turns out, is Lauren Hinkley, the daughter of Green Flash Brewing founders Mike and Lisa Hinkley.  Obviously, she suggested I try a brew from Green Flash Brewing, and specifically, Le Freak.  The bottle says, “Extreme ale converging San Diego-style imperial pale ale and Belgian-style...

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261. Coniston Brewing – Bluebird Bitter
Jan11

261. Coniston Brewing – Bluebird Bitter

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m at the ABNormal Homebrews meeting tonight and our style of the month is English Pale Ales.  One of the beers we had – and I ended up with a decent amount of – was this one.  The presenter selected it because it won the Supreme Champion Beer of Britain 1998 at the Great British Beer Festival Olympia London.  Unfortunately, the presenter also said that he had no idea how long these...

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