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Unboxing Ales By Mail

9. June 2010

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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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Beer Festival: 40 Ales from 40 Miles at the White Horse

29. April 2010

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Tomorrow lunchtime, BeerViking will be raiding the White Horse 40 Ales from 40 Miles Beer Festival.  It will be running all weekend but if you can make it down it would be great to meet you.   Previous years has seen this key London beer fan pub source it’s beers for this festival from a [...]

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Garden Beers 2010: Dark Star Sunburst

26. April 2010

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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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Wandsworth Common Beer Festival: The Myths & Legends Ladder

12. March 2010

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This year at the 2nd Annual Wandsworth Common Beer Festival we are promoting two innovations to the beer festival format. First we take the bold move of listing them all in order of strength. As opposed to alphabetically or by brewery. They range from 3% in 0.1% increments all the way up to 10%. Second we are promoting a series [...]

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The 2010 Battersea Beer Festival – a short review

27. February 2010

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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 [...]

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Christmas Cracker 2009

23. December 2009

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In a time honoured tradition, the Beer Viking crew recently had their annual Christmas Cracker.  Sometimes we get more organised and arrange a pub crawl and send out invites and sometimes it’s just the two captains, Doc and Tank, trying as many quality beers as possible.  On that point, it really is about enjoying beer [...]

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