Top American Cask-Beer named at the Great British Beer Festival. 6/08/08
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Press Release
Top American Cask-Beer named at the Great British Beer Festival
Issued: Wednesday 6 August 2008
Status: For immediate use
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Top American Cask-Beer named at the
Great British Beer Festival
CAMRA announces winner of the 2008 Champion American
Cask-Conditioned Beer Award
“The Angel's Share” from Lost Abbey Brewery in San Marcos, California was today chosen as the best American cask-conditioned beer at this week's Great
British Beer Festival.
The winner was selected by CAMRA beer experts, brewers and international beer judges from forty six beers, specially imported for the Great British Beer
Festival. The Festival provides a unique opportunity to try beers from around the World alongside 450 British real ales. The international ‘Bieres Sans
Frontieres' Bar includes rare lambics, wheat beers, Trappist ales, honey, fruit and spice beers as well as a giant wooden barrel of Imperial Porter from the
De Molen brewery in the Netherlands.
The beer is brewed with copious amounts of caramel malt to emphasise the vanilla and oak flavours found in the freshly emptied bourbon casks, where it spends
six months maturing.
Andy Benson, Manager of the Bieres Sans Frontieres bar said, “It's a great result for Lost Abbey and I'm sure the beer will be a fast-seller at the Festival,
just don't drink too much of it, as it is 12.5% ABV. American beers are often a surprise to the British palate, they are so intensely flavoured that most
people either love them or hate them, nothing like the insipid lagers we usually associate with America. The craft beer market in the States is booming and
most of these beers are extremely difficult to find this side of the water. Some of the beers are not even available in their own areas in a cask conditioned
form.”
Second place went to Mayflower Brewings' Porter from Massachusetts and third to Cambridge Houses' IPA from Connecticut.
ENDS
The Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court, London
Tuesday 5th August - Saturday 9th August
www.gbbf.org.uk
www.b-s-f.org.uk
For more information
CAMRA Press Office (From Monday 4th August- Saturday 9th) - 020 7244 3923
Jon Howard- 07939 425471
Tony Jerome- 07736 948186
Mike Benner- 07971 591224
Iain Loe- 07801 706607
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