Bottled beer of the week review with York Beer and Wine Shop's Jim Helsby

Burnout - abv 5.8%; £2.75/50cl

12:08pm Saturday 18th May 2013

COASTGUARD Phil Saltonstall was always an enthusiastic homebrewer. The idea of turning his hobby into a profession took shape when he worked for a spell at the Triumph Brewery in Princeton while his wife was employed at the UN in New York.

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Samuel Smith’s Organic Chocolate Stout - abv five per cent; £2.60/55cl

12:02pm Saturday 11th May 2013

The image of Samuel Smith’s Brewery couldn’t be more traditional. Old-fashioned pubs decorated with horse brasses and refreshingly free of piped music and gaming machines.

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Rebellion Red - abv 4.5%; £2.95/50cl

11:03am Saturday 4th May 2013

THERE was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when Thomas Wethered’s brewery in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, closed in 1988.

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Handwerk All Day IPA - abv 5.5 per cent; £2.95/50cl

1:58pm Saturday 27th April 2013

IPA's were first produced during the 19th century, heavily hopped, high alcohol beers designed to withstand long sea journeys through tropical latitudes to slake the thirst of our Imperial staff in India.

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Blanche de Bruxelles - abv 4.5%; £1.95/33cl

11:00am Saturday 20th April 2013

THE spiced wheat beers of Belgium, centred in the province of Brabant, once enjoyed widespread popularity throughout the country, but by the 1950s had become all but extinct.

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Bourbon County Stout - £6.95/335ml; 15 per cent abv

2:06pm Saturday 13th April 2013

DURING his travels around Europe in the early 1980s, Chicagoan John Hall was struck by the individuality of the various beer styles he encountered in the different localities he visited. He decided his home city required a brewpub, an ambition he realised in 1988 when Goose Island opened its doors for the first time.

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Roosters Yankee - abv 4.3%; £2.85 / 50cl

9:57am Saturday 6th April 2013

Trained in winemaking, including a spell working and studying in Bordeaux, Sean Franklin switched his attention from grape to grain when he set up Franklin’s Brewery in 1980 in a barn adjoining the Gardener’s Arms in the village of Bilton on the outskirts of Harrogate.

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Kala Black IPA - abv 6.2 per cent; £2.40 / 50cl

11:02am Saturday 30th March 2013

GIVEN that the term IPA stands for India Pale Ale, the description Black IPA would seem to be an oxymoron.

Brewdog 5am Saint - abv 5.4%; £2.25/33cl

8:00am Saturday 23rd March 2013

Brewdog was set up in 2007 in Fraserburgh on Scotland’s east coast. From the outset it was apparent that these were brewers with “attitude”.

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Old Tyke - abv 6.0 per cent; £2.40 / 50cl

1:50pm Saturday 16th March 2013

THE Old Bear Brewery began life in 1993 as a home-brew pub operating at the Old White Bear in Crosshills between Keighley and Skipton.

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Gregorius - abv 9.7%; £4.75 / 33cl

11:41am Saturday 9th March 2013

THE monastery of Stift Engelszell was founded in 1293 in Engelhartzell on the banks of the Danube in Austria.

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Ridgeway Imperial Russian Stout - abv 10%; £2.75/33cl

10:58am Saturday 23rd February 2013

Imperial Russian Stout is a style of beer that appeared during the 18th century and was so named because it was exported to the Imperial Russian court during the time of Catherine the Great.

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Paulaner Hefe-Weissbier Dunkel - abv 5.3 per cent; £2.40/50cl

1:15pm Saturday 16th February 2013

THERE is a common misconception in the UK that all German beers are pale lagers. Not only are they not all pale, they are not all lagers either.

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Longevity - abv 5%; £2.25/50cl

11:57am Saturday 9th February 2013

Henry Jenkins of Ellerton-on-Swale lived to be 169 years old… according to Henry Jenkins. The date of his burial at Bolton-on-Swale is recorded as December 9, 1670.

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Brain’s SA Gold - abv 4.7per cent; £2.20/50cl

11:18am Saturday 2nd February 2013

SA Brain & Co was founded in 1882 when it bought the Old Brewery in St Mary Street, Cardiff, which had been operating since 1713.

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Kasteel Donker - abv 11%; £3.50/33cl

12:15pm Saturday 26th January 2013

The Van Honsenbrouck Brewery is a family owned affair founded in 1900 at Ingelmunster in the Belgian province of West Flanders.

Axholme Special Reserve - abv 7.2%; £2.75/50cl

1:26pm Saturday 19th January 2013

THE Isle of Axholme is an area of north Lincolnshire forming an approximate triangle with Doncaster, Scunthorpe and Gainsborough as its apexes.

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Schlenkerla Urbock - abv 6.5%; £2.95/50cl

10:59am Saturday 12th January 2013

While smoked beers can be found in various parts of the world, it is only in the northern Bavarian province of Franconia that they form a distinct regional speciality, known as Rauchbier.

Kraftwerk Braun Ale - abv 4.5 per cent; £2.75/50cl

9:20am Saturday 5th January 2013

THE Brass Monkey Brewery was set up in 2008 in the West Yorkshire town of Sowerby Bridge.

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