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Rellena Mi Ballena: It’s Whale Season in Baja, Mexico!!!

Refill my Whale, Please!! By Marshall Ellingson Whale season has come early this year. And I don’t mean the mammals! I am a Ballena drinker. Ballena: The Beer of the Pacific. Ballena means whale in Spanish and is the name of the 940ml bottle of Pacifico Beer. Drinking Ballenas is like a whole different culture [...]

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Hammerpot Madgwick Gold

Had another contender for the beer of the summer from the West Sussex microbrewery Hammerpot with the Golden Ale Madgwick

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Brakspear Oxford Gold – rocks!

Friday night and I managed to pick up a couple of Brakspear Oxford Gold Organic Beers for the evening. Put the kids to bed and now watchin the recap of the day at Wimbledon… Brakspear Oxford Gold: Overall -9.33 Taste/flavor – 9.5 Body – 8.5 Color/texture – 10 Alc. 4.6% vol. Fromthe website: Tasting notes [...]

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Ihrmarke – Organic Beer from Switzerland

Beer Viking thinks these beers we read about in an issue of the lifestyle magazine Monocle sound pretty good. Organic, from Switzerland and made by a Taiwanese housewife who wanted to setup an eco business. How cool is that! We now just need to get our hands on some of these beers to try out. [...]

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realale.com – UK Tasty Brew Delivery

In case you’re unlucky and don’t have a sweet hole in wall offy that carries tasty brew, realale.com looks like it can help.

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South Downs Beer Festival

Dropped in with my Pa at the South Downs Beer Festival in Lewes.  Over 60 beers but as it was the afternoon only was able to try a few.  More details below. This seemed to be a real ale drinkers festival and not one of the family.  If still in Sussex, might drop in again [...]

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