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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 Shepherd [...]

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Wandsworth Common Beer Festival 2: Come Over to the Dark Side

One event that is looming large in the Beer Viking diary is the upcoming Wandsworth Common Halloween Beer Festival (and not because it’s the first event that we are sponsoring).  It will be from Thursday, 29th – Saturday, 31st October 2009. The first event from Mark and the team at Le Gothique was in March and [...]

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Showdown: Mikeller Stateside IPA vs. Victory Hop Wallop

In honour of American Independence Day and the sad fact I wasn’t able to join the raid on the White Horse American Beer Festival I had to pull the trigger on this matchup that I’ve been waiting patiently for. In the red corner it’s the Mikeller Stateside IPA and in the blue corner is the [...]

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Dark Star Beer Festival at the Stand Up Inn

How to get to this just more than once? One of Beer Vikings favourite and a leading light in the UK Craft brewery scene,  Dark Star Brewing Co. are hosting a beer festival at their pub the Stand Up Inn in Lindfield, West Sussex. The poster below is pretty much it for details but it’s running Friday [...]

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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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Epic Beer – A Twitter Driven Tasting in London

We had the pleasure of running into Luke the brewer of Epic Pale Ale from New Zealand thanks to Twitter. Thanks to Twitter – that’s a whole other ‘power of social media’ post one day – we managed to track him down at the Market Porter next to Borough Market. He’s been over in the [...]

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