Hot on the heels of last month’s episode (AHTA #13 – The Highs and Lows of Beer Review: Part 1) we now bring you the thrilling conclusion.

Where the previous episode featured beers under 1% ABV, this one goes up to the opposite end of the ABV scale (well almost, we don’t get to the heady heights of Schorschbräu’s Bocks or BrewDog’s Tactical Nuclear Penguin) and features beers with an ABV over 10%.
Including beers from Brouwerij de Molen, Arbor Ales, Wild Beer Company and Mikkeller.
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AHTA #13 – The Highs and Lows of Beer Reviews: Part 2 [ 1 hr. 08 min. 45 sec. | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Downloads 16

Contrary to the suggestive title, this isn’t a post about the good and bad things a beer reviewer (if that is what we actually do anyway) can expect from their pastime. Neither is it a post looking at the “this beer is the best thing I’ve ever tasted” ales compared with the “why exactly did they bother brewing this” duds that we’ve tasted over the years.

Instead, in a first for All Hail the Ale, we bring you our first two part episode where we look at low ABV and high ABV beers separately.
The arbitrary rule we set ourselves was under 1% and over 10%, and all beers had to be standard fermented beers as opposed to all that distilled malarkey.
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AHTA #13 - The Highs and Lows of Beer Reviews: Part 1 [ 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Downloads 32

So, here we are, it’s 2013 and we have the release of the first AHTA podcast of the year. We have a little secret to let you in on though, as this was originally recorded back in October 2012, but we had so many other things we wanted to get released before Christmas we held it back for this year.
So, the mystery is solved, well it wasn’t really a mystery, we told you all about it in our 2012 US Election Special which replaced this one.

This says it all, brewing from start to finish from Country Life Brewery

This month’s episode, sees us looking at beers from the Cornwall, Devon and Bristol area and is rather imaginatively titled “The English South West Special”.
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AHTA #8 - English South West [ 1 hr. 22 min. 32 sec. | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Downloads 34