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The 2010 Battersea Beer Festival – a short review

The 2010 edition of the Battersea Beer Festival in London (Feb ) was another solid event. A great selection of UK craft beer and reasonable International stand of mainly Belgian and German beers. However, I didn't find a single American beer on site – buy maybe I missed something.

I was down on the landlord and brewer day which was cool [...]

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Wandsworth Common Halloween Beer Fest – report of sorts

Well its been almost 3 weeks since the BeerViking crew raided the La Gothique pub for the Wandsworth Common Halloween Beer Festival. Better late than never – here’s our report…
Over 2000 people attended this excellent beer fest – which ran for 3 days. We ran into Steve from Beer Justice and some of the Shepherd [...]

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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 and [...]

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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 running Friday [...]

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Wandsworth Common Beer Fest ‘09 – recap and beer list

Well, we’ve got to say the WCBF ‘09 was a massive success not just a great venue with great beer but also  good food and wonderful staff. The host Mark and his team at La Gothique did awesome job and we will be back next time. Did we have a hangover? Yes and it rated [...]

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Wandsworth Beer Festival ‘09 – Brewery List

Here is a list of most – will we try to confirm the final list ad even some of the specific beers ASAP – of the breweries that will be featured at the inaugural Wandsworth Common Beer Festival which kicks off this Thursday 26 March 2009!

Brewery
Location
Website link

Ballard’s Brewery
 
http://tr.im/gVAn

Batemans
Wainfleet
http://tr.im/h050

Dark Star
Sussex
http://tr.im/gVDS

Downton Brewery
Salisbury
no site can be found

Exmoor Ales
Exmoor [...]

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