The bottled beers included Massey's 6d Special Mild Ale, Prize Stout, King's Ale, Golden Bitter Beer and Pale Ale.

BBC: If you live in Burney, you must have heard of Massey's.

Ale is how beer was made for millennia--natural yeasts in the air attacked the blend of water, hops and malted barley and started the fermentation process.

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Last year, American companies Firestone Walker Brewing and Miller Brewing won the World Beer Cup championship for both midsize and large breweries, respectively. (Small went to a German brewer.) And Sierra Nevada Brewing's Draught Ale and the Boston Beer Co.

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Boulevard Brewing in Kansas City recently began selling a new beer, Amber Ale.

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Beer CaseSome prized gems in Papazian's private collection include a 3-year-old Raspberry Imperial Stout, an Apricot Ale and a smoke-flavored Swedish beer called Boulders Dricka.

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Ommegang Iron Throne Blonde Ale, however, is not that beer.

FORBES: Connect

The Mile High Malt Scrub and Microbrew Massage starts with a scrub made by mixing grainy beer malt with a rice ale, brewed by the nearby Great Divide Brewery.

BBC: Bathe at a beer spa

Steve Evans, who revived brewing in Dowlais after a gap of more than 25 years, said the company's Hobby Horse beer would be the only Welsh ale on sale in Australia.

BBC: Deal sends Welsh beer down under

While these "bottom-fermented" Bavarian beers were still dark, the serendipity that created them yielded a flavorful beer minus the palooka punch of a heavy ale.

FORBES: Czech Mate

Tipple on any number of Mexican beers -- Pacifico, Tecate, Bohemia (dark or light), Indio or Corona -- but while in Guadalajara try its locally-brewed beer, Minerva, which produces a pale ale and a stout in addition to the more common lagers.

BBC: Guadalajara on a plate

The first beer we drank was Dogfish Head's Midas Touch, an ale made with Muscat grapes.

WSJ: An Enduring Tradition

"What better beer to have them drink than the only beer brewed in the District of Columbia, Capitol City Brewing Company Equality Ale!"

WSJ: Brouhaha Over 'Beer Summit'

In its inaugural year, more than 4, 500 pints of beer and 800 pints of cider and perry were served during the three-day Camra Real Ale Festival in Douglas.

BBC: Real Ale

Real ale campaigners and the brewers - both large and micro - had raised concerns over the impact of the beer tax escalator, which imposed an automatic annual above-inflation increase on a pint.

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Top Totty, a 4% ale brewed by the Staffordshire-based brewers Slater's Ales, had been on sale as a guest beer in the Strangers' Bar.

BBC: Top Totty beer sales rocket after ban