A blog about beer, brewing and drinking. Wednesday, 4 February 2015. Into their conditioning tanks, the Abstrakt range has started to look less like an arty concept and more like. just another set of big beers. In addition, up to this point almost every Abstrakt beer has encouraged the hoarder. Huge ABV monsters, released Across the UK, thousands of dusty black demi-bouteilles.

Blog of Beer Writer Chris Hall. Last month I was invited to judge at the yearly World Beer Awards, at which over 400 beers are submitted to the Europe panel alone. It was on the European judging panel that I learned an important lesson about the beer market, and the perils facing emerging craft brewers.