Lost Abbey And Port Brewing On Their Way

Anyone who enjoyed The Angels Share at this year's Great British Beer Festival will be excited to hear that Beermerchants.com yesterday announced the imminent arrival of beers brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey. This excellent brewery which specialises in both American and Belgian beer styles has won multiple awards for its beers.

Having only tasted the one beer at GBBF I'm very keen to try more beers from their range.

I don't have details of which beers are coming yet, but hope to have that information soon. More information on the beer ranges can be found here and here.

These beers won't be cheap, but they represent the pinnacle of US brewing and may never be seen in the UK again. You wouldn't want to miss out would you?

Struise Black Albert

Struise cannot do much wrong in my opinion. I've enjoyed all the beers I've tried, and awarded Earthmonk my beer of the year last year. I was pleased to see Pannepot, another favourite of mine, on the bottled list at GBBF. Hopefully this is a sign that these exceptional beers are going to be imported more regularly to the UK.

Indeed it's alredy started as BeerMerchants have got some Black Albert on sale. This 13% stout has fantastic tasting notes according to the description if you've clicked the link, and certainly make me excited to try the bottle I traded for at GBBF.

Be warned that supplies are presently pretty small, so get in quick while you can.

BeerMerchants Brewsletter

The latest newsletter from BeerMerchants is available here. It's heartening to see how well the Scandinavian beers they've recently got in are doing. I am very confident that they will continue to break the mould and import some of the World's greatest beers. Heck I may even have some very interesting news for you quite soon.

Read the newsletter, click on the links and order some beer. Have fun!

Nils Oscar At BeerMerchants

My favourite beer at last year's Great British Beer Festival was Nils Oscar Imperial Stout. It was an excellent stout coming in at a reasonable 7% but tasting much stronger with an excellent roasty body. Sadly there doesn't appear to be any beers from Scandinavia this year, but blog sponsor BeerMerchants have secured six beers from this Swedish brewery for your enjoyment.

Amongst them is the excellent Stout, together with the almost as good Barley Wine an IPA, a smoked porter, and a couple of lagers; one in the dortmunder style and one in the vienna style.

As stated before, BeerMerchants certainly know how to package their beers so you can order these safe in the knowledge that they will arrive snugly and promptly. I'm sure you'll enjoy a little taste of Sweden, especially the Imperial Stout!

Mikkeller Beers In The UK

Blog sponsors BEERmerchants.com have today announced what is a major coup for a British importer. They have imported a fine selection of beers from Denmark's Mikkeller Brewery. I've eulogised about Mikkeller beers a few times on this blog and awarded one of their beers Beer Of The Month in March.

The case features nine different beers from the brewery awarded sixth in the World in the latest RateBeer Best awards. All of these beers are highly rated and only two (Jackie Brown and Beer Geek Breakfast) have been sold in the UK before. There are hoppy American styled ales, a couple of Belgian styled beers and a 17.5% Imperial Stout included in the box. So a varied selection of styles as well.

Hopefully this isn't a once in a lifetime opportunity to get hold of these beers but I do recommend people get in quickly as advance orders are being taken from today. Oh, and you get one of the splendid Beermerchants glasses too. What a bargain!!

A Herculean Box Of Beer

It's not every day the postman brings you something special. It's normally junk or, worse still, bills. However on Monday the doorbell rang and there was a very nice man with a delivery for me. It transpires that unsolicited I had been sent a great box of beer from Beermerchants.com

Beermerchants call the selection The Hercules Case due to the strength of all the beers. The weakest of the eighteen different brands is a tear-inducing 8% with the strongest being the delicious Bush Ambrée. Also in there is my all time favourite Rochefort 10. There's also a rather snazzy glass, just perfect for most strong Belgian beers. The box was superbly and safely packaged with enough 'peanuts' to keep a monkey happy for a lifetime. To round off the package is an A4 sheet of tasting notes which include recommendations for food pairings. I've not seen this before from online suppliers, and I think it's a really nice touch especially for the beginner.

For me of course the case was the best value possible, but. at £34.90 for normal customers, it still represents great value. There are other good deals to be had. Give the website a visit and see what you think.