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Christmas Cracker 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...My Notes on Tasty #beerswap Northern Brew
7. December 2009
Some of the BeerViking’s had the pleasure in being part of the first social media British Beer community Beer Swap (#beerswap on Twitter). Doc D has already filed his report on his beers and this is mine.
I was matched to receive beers from Sam Lanes from Real Ale Reviews. Being Leeds-based, he chose to [...]
Introducing BeerViking TV – Epic Pale Ale vs. Thornbridge Kipling South Pacific Pale Ale
15. June 2009
The plan
It was simple enough – take two interesting beers to the beach, taste them, compare them, BrewRank the beers and video it. Oh yeah, we also needed to pick a winner.
The setting
We had post card perfect day and beach side location. Brighton beach (in Sussex, UK) on a sunny, clear and very warm day [...]
Saturday Night Fight: Anchor Small vs. Ballards Old Bounder
14. March 2009
This weeks the beer of pits Anchor Small Beer vs. Ballard’s Old Bounder, 21 Birthday Boy.
The main reason to choose these two was driven by the story behind the Small Beer, which is that it’s created by running a second load of water through the mash of the Anchor Old Foghorn. So as I had [...]
Saturday Night Fight, Best Bitter Train Theme: Velocity vs. Pullman
7. March 2009
Having enjoyed the train crawl in Oz and May Drink for England, I was pretty chuffed when I was given an Adur Velocity and Hepworth Pullman, as well as having train names, they are Best Bitters.
Adur Velocity, Sussex, 4.4%. Golden brown, quite a nose, bubbly. A fun ride along the length. Gentle bitter. Here’s [...]
Saturday Night Fight: Sierra Nevada Pale vs. Thornbridge Kipling
28. February 2009
In a desire to pick things up a bit in the hunt, I decided to pit two very excellent beers against each other.
Thornbridge Kipling is one of my current go to beers. I really enjoy the understated use of the Nelson Sauvin hop from New Zealand that is quite fresh and delicate but still satisfies [...]
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23. December 2009
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