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Raid – Looking for Good Pubs Near Victoria Station, London

Have recovered enough to finally write something, will follow with posts about a couple of places we made it to. Anyway, main thing is that as Doc and myself are often leaving from Victoria these days, we decided it was time to do some research and find some drinking holes down that way. Below is [...]

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The Best Brewpub in Milano – Lambrate

Ok, so the Beer Vikings were in Milan this week. The plan was not to rape and pillage but only do some work. Before we headed down to the sunny Med we picked up Michael Jackson’s (NOT the singer) great DK guide to Beer. What did we find ? On page 204 it says: Lambrate [...]

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Oh Canada… the photoviking strikes

As we did trie to report from the Canada Day celebrations BeerViking si back with with some photographic evidence of of how the ex-pat Canadians get on in Londontown at the Maple Leaf…

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Live Bloggen from the American Beer Festival

For sure, the opening has been weak…apparently the Bar Manager was at Glastonbury and wasn’t ready for the ‘core CAMRA foks hitting his pumps. The Typhoon was killa and though we have to roll out, had to add one more. We went with the Sierra Nevada Big Foot. More late on the actual beer. Seems [...]

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More Live Blogging from the American Beer Festival

Happy 4th of July! The day we celebrate kicking some British ass. Anyway, back to things that really matter. So, we were talking about Into The Wild (the movie/book) and its a great story about a tragic outcome. We raise a toast to young adventurer and wish he was here to share a few brews [...]

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Live Blogging from the American Beer Festival – Flying Dog Classic Pale Ale

Doc follows on quickly with a choice. This time he went for one of the keg beers (oooh, I hear you hardcore CAMRA folks go!) He went with the Flying Dog Brewery Classic Pale Ale.  Love Flying Dog as they have Hunter S. Thompson’s buddy Ralph Steadman doing the logos. Doc toasts the Hunter S. [...]

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