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West Coast Raid – day 1: Rogue Ale Embassy, SF

Right, so I am here alone in on a boring old biz trip and suffering from some serious jet lag. Oh but lucky for me my old buddy Pat shows up to show me a great meal of Japanese noodles and then its time to raid the Rogue Ale Public House in SF, CA… And what [...]

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Altes Tramdepot brewpub, Bern Switzerland – this place rocks!

We had 45 mins free before leaving Bern (unfortunately it was a biz trip not a beer raid). Just enough time to sample a couple of great beers at the local Altes Tramdepot brewpub. As brewpub goes this place rated a @pubrank 18!Located next to the bear pits with a great view across to the [...]

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Northern California Raid: After Day 1 (Updated)

photo credit: 123 look at me
Updated original post with scores and notes on the Red River Belgians (See Beers)
Some of the BeerViking ( mostly Doc D but Hunter as well) crew are heading to Northern California on a serious pillage mission.
They will be filing field reports via Twitter [...]

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Scilly Beer – 3 Islands 3 Pubs

Recently, I was lucky enough to spend a week of holiday on Tresco – one of the 5 main the islands in the Isles of Scilly – which are off the coast of Cornwall in the Atlantic. As a long time American resident in the UK – in my humble opinion -  this is [...]

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Pub du Vin, Brighton – First Glance

The sun is shining and I have pressing agenda but I decided to look away from the precipice and take the time to drop in for the first time at the Pub du Vin, Brighton.
I will come back later to add more details but wanted to capture initial thoughts:
If this is the plan these guys [...]

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