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The 2010 Battersea Beer Festival – a short review

The 2010 edition of the Battersea Beer Festival in London (Feb ) was another solid event. A great selection of UK craft beer and reasonable International stand of mainly Belgian and German beers. However, I didn't find a single American beer on site – buy maybe I missed something. I was down on the landlord and brewer day which was [...]

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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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More on the Dark Star, Thornbridge Mashup

As first read about from beermerchants. Dropped in at the Evening Star (caught the tail end of the Six Hop availability) and they had some more details on the collaboration between Dark Star and Thornbridge. Mark Tranter headed North to wonderful Derbyshire.  It’s a 7% Old Ale using Maris Otter Pale Ale, Crystal Malts with [...]

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Exmoor Beast, 6.6%. A dark Por…

Exmoor Beast, 6.6%. A dark Porter-style with nice upnotes from: Goldings, Challenger and Brewers Gold hops. 15/20

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Christmas Beer – Weltons Imperial Festive 2008

Oh my, this is my 2nd bottle of this.  First one I wasn’t able to take notes as I’m still not sure of the etiquette of taking notes when drinking socially with people you don’t know so well. And this bottle conditioned beauty is wonderful and goes straight to the top of the charts of [...]

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De Dolle Brouwers arabier

While spinning some wheels before hitting a train, I dropped by utobeer and asked for some recs to help develop the Belgian pallete. arabier by the De Dolle Brouwers of Essen, Belgium was suggested (also twice by a couple of other punters there) and so it was a definite bring home. There’s viewing opions about [...]

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