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Arcadia Ales Sky High Rye #beer 13

Gorgeous colour the other side of amber, slight white frosting of a head. Grass, apple, grapefruit + something I can’t quite get on the nose. Drying mouthfeel with a less bitterness than expected. First taste is slightly disappointing. Overall not bad a 13 but for Rye Pale Ale the benchmark has been set very high [...]

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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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Unboxing Ales By Mail

BeerViking No1 rips into a tasty case of beer from Ales By Mail (alesbymail.com). 15 bottles of super British craft beer (aka – real ale). backing track by Chuck D with Fine Arts Militia / No Meaning No – (used via Creative Commons license see http://creativecommons.org/wired

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Garden Beers 2010: Dark Star Sunburst

Oh, how I have missed you.  Wonderful on a sunny spring day in a English country garden! Dark Star – Please bottle more in your lovely new brewery Posted via email from beerviking’s posterous

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