‘300 More Beers To Try Before You Die’! features beers from all over the globe, including British ales, Czech lagers, Belgian blondes and German wheat beers alongside more unusual brews from as far afield as Australia and Cuba.
The book’s author, Roger Protz, said: “New World beers can now challenge New World wines in their diversity and complexity, and Britain, with more breweries per head than any other country in the world, is once again the undisputed king of brewing nations.”
Protz selected his top ten beers at the Great British Beer Festival where the book was launched today (August 14):
 

· St Austell, Proper Job (England)
· Sierra Nevada, Torpedo Extra IPA (USA)
· Rudgate Brewery, Ruby Mild (England)
· Adnams, Ghost Ship (England)  
· Dark Star, American Pale Ale (England)
· Triple fff, Alton’s Pride (England)
· Elland, 1872 Porter (England)
· Bartrams Brewery, Comrade Bill Bartrams Egalitarian Anti Imperialist Soviet Stout (England)
· Cumbrian Legendary Ales, Loweswater Gold (England)
· Brasserie Cantillon, Iris (Belgium)

The book is the sequel to  Protz’s '300 Beers to Try Before You Die!' The new collection has been compiled personally by Protz and showcases traditional brews and new twists on classic recipes.

Here’s a run down of Protz’s favourites at the GBBF:

St Austell, Proper Job (England)
The beer takes its name from Cornish dialect: a ‘proper job’ means a task well done and refers to the role of the 32nd Cornwall Regiment in protecting the British residency in Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The regiment was raised to the status of a Light Infantry detachment by a grateful Queen Victoria. Proper Job has a powerful fruit aroma of grapefruit, orange and mango, with strong contributions from oatcake malt and tangy hop resins. Bittersweet fruit, chewy malt and bitter hops combine in the mouth while grapefruit comes to the fore in the finish but is beautifully balanced by biscuit malt and tangy, bitter hops.
ABV: 4.5% cask; 5.5% bottle

Sierra Nevada, Torpedo Extra IPA (USA)
The beer has a burnished bronze colour with a great waft of grapefruit and lemon jelly on the nose, with spicy hop resins and a ‘fresh bread’ malt character. The palate is shatteringly bitter, with touches of iodine and quinine, but the bitterness is softened by the rich bittersweet fruit and chewy, sappy malt. Grapefruit, lemon, passion fruit and even lime marmalade pack the finish with spicy hop resins and rich, slightly toasted malt.
ABV: 7.2%.

Rudgate Brewery, Ruby Mild (England)
The beer has a rich aroma of roasted grain, creamy chocolate, burnt fruit and tangy hop resins. Chocolate, fruit and roast flavours build in the mouth but hops add a firm, piny and bitter balance. The long and lingering finish is bittersweet with a delicious creamy and wholemeal malt character, with contributions from chocolate, dark fruit and tangy hops.
ABV: 4.4%

Adnams, Ghost Ship (England)  
The beer has a superb aroma of violets, citrus fruit, spicy hops and lightly toasted malt. Tart fruit, angy hop resins and a ‘malt biscuits’ grain note dominate the palate. The finish is long, complex, dry and bitter, but those characteristics are balanced by bittersweet citrus fruit, with grapefruit and lemon to the fore, and rich biscuit malt. It’s a beer that sends shivers down your spine.
ABV: 4.5%.

Dark Star, American Pale Ale (England)
In order to give American Pale Ale an authentic character, Rob and his colleagues use not only American hops but a yeast culture imported from the United States. The beer is brewed with low colour Maris Otter malt and hopped with all-American varieties: Cascade, Centennial and Chinook. The pale gold beer has a profound aroma of citrus fruits – orange, lemon and grapefruit – with cedar notes from the hops and biscuit malt. Tart fruit builds in the mouth but is well balanced by creamy malt and intensely bitter hops. The finish is long and complex, with an intertwining of fruit, malt and hops; it finally ends dry and hoppy.
ABV: 4.7%

Triple fff, Alton’s Pride (England)
Alton’s Pride may have a relatively humble name but it’s a rich and complex beer, brewed with Maris Otter pale and cara gold malts and generously hopped with Amarillo, Fuggles, Goldings and Mount Hood varieties from England and the U.S. The bronze beer has a profound aroma of floral hops, tart citrus fruit and sweet, juicy malt. The palate is full and rounded, with creamy malt, citrus fruit and peppery hops, followed by a lingering bittersweet finish that is hoppy and malty, with a continuing tangy fruit note; it finally ends dry.
ABV: 3.8%.

McMullen, Country Bitter (England)
It’s a ‘fully attenuated beer’, which means it has a long fermentation that turns all available malt sugars to alcohol and creates a finished ale that drinks stronger than its ABV would suggest. It has the McMullen hallmark of bitter orange fruit on the aroma and palate, balanced by a ‘fresh bread’ malt note and profound hop character reminiscent of pine cones, cedar wood and spice, with a rich butterscotch note. The finish is long and complex, ending dry, but with a fine interweaving of rich, nutty malt, tart fruit and bitter and spicy hops.
ABV: 4.3%.

Bartrams Brewery, Comrade Bill Bartrams Egalitarian Anti-Imperialist Soviet Stout (England)
This anti-imperialist imperial Stout has a deep ruby colour with a robust aroma of chocolate, bitter coffee, dark fruit, roasted grain and peppery hops. Chocolate builds in the mouth with continuing contributions from espresso coffee, raisin fruit, smoky grain and bitter hop resins. The finish is long and complex with rich smoky malt, dark fruit, chocolate, coffee and peppery hops making bold contributions.
ABV: 6.9%.

Cumbrian Legendary Ales, Loweswater Gold (England)
The aroma has a creamy, oatmeal note allied to delicate hop resins and tart lemon fruit with a hint of sulphur and butterscotch. The fruit note builds in the mouth but is well balanced by juicy malt and cedar-like hops with lingering butterscotch. The finish is bittersweet and quenching with tart lemon fruit vying for attention with bitter hop resins, butterscotch and creamy malt.
ABV: 4.3%.

Brasserie Cantillon, Iris (Belgium)
Iris is made solely with barley malt and uses 50 percent fresh hops as well as aged versions. It takes its name from Brussels’ official flower. In all respects, Iris has an aroma and palate that’s unmistakably lambic, sour and musty, but with the addition of a spritzy hop character. The beer is made with the house yeast and is hopped with Saaz hops from the Czech Republic. It’s aged for two years in the Cantillon oak casks and at the end of that period linen bags containing more Saaz are added to impart a fresh hop aroma.
The beer that emerges from this long process is red/gold in colour and has a nose that’s both sour from the yeast and spicy from the hops at the same time. It’s tart, tangy and sour in the mouth, with lemon fruit, toasted malt and spicy hops, with a long, quenching finish that’s a fine blend of toasted grain, tart and sour fruit and spritzy hops. In short, it’s superb.
ABV: 5%,