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Salopian Brewery Darwins Origin (4.3%) – a great bottled beer

We recently had the pleasure of drinking the Salopian Brewery Darwins Origin (4.3%) on cask at a small August bank holiday beer festival in Kent. From cask it rated a respectable 15/20 on the @brewrank scale. Here's how the Salopian website describes the brew: Style: Darwin’s Origin is an eclectic mix of hops from across the world [...]

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American Beer Festival 2010 at the White Horse, SW6 in West London

We know it shouldn't be a surprise but awesome to hear that the White Horse in West London will be doing their excellent American Beer Festival over 2nd-4th July.  We'll be doing our usual and opening affairs on the Friday afternoon. Based on our time there in 2008 and 2009, we can totally recommend this [...]

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

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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Additional Beers on at the Wandsworth Common Beer Festival this weekend March 27-28

Wandsworth Common Beer Festival EXTRA BEERS NOT PRINTED IN THE PROGRAMME (AVAILABLE the SATURDAY & SUNDAY March 27-28) Art Brew, North Chideock Dorset (NEW BREWERY) Be the very first in London to try these new beers from a new Brewery! Art Nouveau 3.9% High in hop content but relatively low in alcohol i-Beer 4.0% A golden [...]

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Additional Beers on at the Wandsowrth Common Beer Festival this weekend March 27-28

Wandsowrth Common Beer Festival EXTRA BEERS NOT PRINTED IN THE PROGRAMME (AVAILABLE the SATURDAY & SUNDAY March 27-28) Art Brew, North Chideock Dorset (NEW BREWERY) Be the very first in London to try these new beers from a new Brewery! Art Nouveau 3.9% High in hop content but relatively low in alcohol i-Beer 4.0% A golden [...]

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More Official Beer Ladders – Wandsworth Common Beer Festival

Here are a bunch more of the 'official' beer ladders for the Wandsworth Common Beer Festival next week Mark 25-28th! Enjoy and please drink responsibly – we recommend half or third pints only. The Dark Beer Ladder The Golden The Rugby The Strong And the Make your own Please print these out if you fancy and also [...]

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