Beer Viking

A Selection of Friday Beers at the Office

Today it was the Beerviking crews turn to sponsor Friday Beer's at the office and in true viking style we have stocked the fridge with a nice selection from UK (Brewdog, Twickenham, Hogs Back), US (Dogfish, Anchor, Victory & Sierra Nevada), Australia (Coopers) and Germany (Andechser - brewed in a monastery! and others). We had to [...]

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It’s Official – London Has a Thriving 21st Century Beer Scene!

Yes, in case you’ve been living under a rock London has a dynamic, innovative and world class modern beer scene. The emergence of the London Brewers Alliance and their inaugural showcase event held last Friday night is more proof that London should be on every beer enthusiasts schedule. During the Friday festivities we tasted the following brews: Ha’penny Brewing [...]

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Salopian Brewery Darwins Origin (4.3%) – a great bottled beer

We recently had the pleasure of drinking the Salopian Brewery Darwins Origin (4.3%) on cask at a small August bank holiday beer festival in Kent. From cask it rated a respectable 15/20 on the @brewrank scale. Here's how the Salopian website describes the brew: Style: Darwin’s Origin is an eclectic mix of hops from across the world [...]

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Ales By Mail Tasting No 1 with Beerviking [Video]

CAMRA Beer Magazine Summer '10 Review – Ales By Mail Tasting No 1 with Beerviking The back story short version. Every issues of Beer the quarterly magazine of CAMRA has selection of bottled beers reviewed. We got an adavnce case and did our own tasting of sorts. In two parts pretty raw edit here… just the mash. We [...]

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American Beer Festival 2010 at the White Horse, SW6 in West London

We know it shouldn't be a surprise but awesome to hear that the White Horse in West London will be doing their excellent American Beer Festival over 2nd-4th July.  We'll be doing our usual and opening affairs on the Friday afternoon. Based on our time there in 2008 and 2009, we can totally recommend this [...]

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The Question? A friend has a few spare hours in Zurich where can he get good beer?

Simple… In the main train station in Zurich is Brasserie Federal with 200+ Swiss bottled beers and a few on tap.  Brasserie Federal Bahnhofplatz 15, 8001 Zürich, Schweiz Map: http://maps.google.com/places/ch/z%C3%BCrich/bahnhofplatz/15/-brasserie-federal?hl=en Need to look for beers from: Les bières Trois Dames (the IPA is 15/20 and the La Fraîcheur is 17/20!) Brasserie des Franches Montagnes Also worth trying one [...]

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