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#beerswap – My Nothern Beers

Earlier, I was able to pick up my beers for the Beer Swap.  I was very excited to find that Sam Lanes, from Real Ale Reviews, had sent through the following choice selection of beers from parts of Yorkshire.   Can’t wait to start the tasting. Copper Dragon Orange Pipin Leeds Brewery Best Leeds Brewery Pale [...]

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The Great British Beer Swap

Two of the BeerVikings have signed up to be part of the first Beer Swap, an idea pulled together by Mark Dredge of Pencil and Spoon, chilliupnorth and BeerReviews. Idea is that people from the digital beer community of Great Britain get paired up with someone from another part of the country and have to [...]

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Wandsworth Common Beer Festival 2: Come Over to the Dark Side

One event that is looming large in the Beer Viking diary is the upcoming Wandsworth Common Halloween Beer Festival (and not because it’s the first event that we are sponsoring).  It will be from Thursday, 29th – Saturday, 31st October 2009. The first event from Mark and the team at Le Gothique was in March [...]

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Northern California Raid: After Day 1 (Updated)

photo credit: 123 look at me Updated original post with scores and notes on the Red River Belgians (See Beers) Some of the BeerViking ( mostly Doc D but Hunter as well) crew are heading to Northern California on a serious pillage mission. They will be filing field reports via Twitter and at HQ we’ll [...]

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Showdown: Mikeller Stateside IPA vs. Victory Hop Wallop

In honour of American Independence Day and the sad fact I wasn’t able to join the raid on the White Horse American Beer Festival I had to pull the trigger on this matchup that I’ve been waiting patiently for. In the red corner it’s the Mikeller Stateside IPA and in the blue corner is the [...]

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Dark Star Beer Festival at the Stand Up Inn

How to get to this just more than once? One of Beer Vikings favourite and a leading light in the UK Craft brewery scene,  Dark Star Brewing Co. are hosting a beer festival at their pub the Stand Up Inn in Lindfield, West Sussex. The poster below is pretty much it for details but it’s [...]

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