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Wandsworth Common Beer Festival: The Myths & Legends Ladder

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

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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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 [...]

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Around London in 80 Beers – book review

  What a gem of a book! Thank you to Pollard & McGinn for putting this together. You can order your copy here on Books About Beer website. The premise is simple enough – a guide to 80 pubs in London with 80 recommended beers to try at each pub when you visit. The selection [...]

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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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