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Danish Christmas Beer Booty – intro and photos

Well, the Danish Christmas Beer Booty – a gift to myself – has been awesome. By booty I am talking about a 'pirate' or viking or is a nautical term for treasure! Anyway all the beers I've had rate 12-16s out of 20. A fuller @brewrank report to follow in the meantime here are the [...]

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Landlord and Brewery Days, 3rd and 4th December

We’ve had notice that Mark Justin, a Publican with a Master of Wine, has organised to two very special days at Le Gothique on December 3rd and 4th. Carola Brown from Ballards in Hampshire and Duncan Sambrook from Sambrook’s in Battersea will both be here on Thursday 3rd to talk and field questions about [...]

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#beerswap – My Nothern Beers

Earlier, I was able to pick up my beers for the Beer Swap.  I was very excited to find that Sam Lanes, from Real Ale Reviews, had sent through the following choice selection of beers from parts of Yorkshire.   Can’t wait to start the tasting.

Copper Dragon Orange Pipin
Leeds Brewery Best
Leeds Brewery Pale
Saltaire Brewery Cascade Pale

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Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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Hops Homebrew Solstice Bitter ‘09

Hops Homebrew Solstice Bitter ‘09, originally uploaded by mediaviking.

That’s it. The left over hops from the Solstice ‘hopped’ Bitter homebrew 2009. British Goldings hops to be precise… We’re are hoping this batch tastes as good as it smelled while it was on the boil!

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Food and Beer – random stuff for Friday…

This is a test post to see if we can merge some think about beer with foodies. Lets see what happens.

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