Beer Viking

Christmas Cracker 2009

In a time honoured tradition, the Beer Viking crew recently had their annual Christmas Cracker.  Sometimes we get more organised and arrange a pub crawl and send out invites and sometimes it’s just the two captains, Doc and Tank, trying as many quality beers as possible.  On that point, it really is about enjoying beer [...]

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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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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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Cold Beer in London

Beer Viking plays out of the home ground that is London, in particular a lot of research is put into Victoria, Soho, The Rake at London Bridge, Dullitch and Fulham.  Hailing from Canada originally I often get asked if I can stand all the warm beer in England and isn’t there anywhere that serves beer [...]

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