In November 2011, Kjetil Jikiun of Nøgne Ø fame paid us a visit at Renaissance and together we brewed our first international collaboration brew. We had planned to brew a beer that was a three way split of Stonecutter Scotch Ale, HopWired and Batch #100. On the day, due to hop shortage and a batch of non-optimal yeast, it turned out more like a New Zealand version of Batch #100.
The annual RateBeer Best results are out. For those of you who are not familiar with this, it is the (self-proclaimed) biggest beer competition in the world:
“RateBeer Best was again the largest beer competition in the world -- more than 140,000 beers from over 12,000 brewers worldwide were tallied. A particular emphasis was placed on tastings made in the last twelve months.”
There have been a lot of “Golden Pints” (best of 2011) blogs going around the internet lately. It is always interesting recap the year of beer, so I thought I’d chip in and do one as well...: