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Angel’s Share Wins Best US Cask At UK Fest

August 12, 2008 By Jay Brooks

Last week at the Great British Beer Festival, The Angel’s Share, brewed by the Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California, was chosen as the “Best American Cask-Conditioned Beer.”

From the press release:

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 emphasize the vanilla and oak flavors 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 flavored 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.

Congratulations to Tomme Arthur.

 

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Comments

  1. chris says

    August 12, 2008 at 10:26 am

    very nice – I always find it odd that a Belgian-style ale will be on cask though. I generally associate cask beer with British-style ales, but it makes sense if you take CAsk in the old world sense.

  2. Scott says

    August 12, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    See? Not all of our beers suck! The craft beer movement is huge here, which makes it a great time to be a beer drinker!

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