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75% Done with Drinking my #BeerSwap Brews – the story so far

The 1st great British Beer Swap has been a lot of fun despite some issues with Collect+ (the shipping service we used). A bog thanks must be said to the brains behind this event – Andy & Mark from http://www.beerreviews.co.uk/ and http://real-ale-reviews.com/ . My SWEEEET set of beers came to me from The Beer Bear [...]

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Scotland 25 – 28th August 2008

Going through back notes. Skull Splitter – A tasty brew ? 3 Red – So so Fynne Ales Avalanche – Yummy hops Glen Finnan Standard and the Gold I tried a few more but the main point is that all of them were from craft brewers in Scotland and finding a scene was news to [...]

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Christmas Beer – WJ King Merry Ale

The King family has been brewing beer for 5 generations.  They are based in Horsham which seems to be quite a hotbed for great smaller/craft brewers.  Need to go to a tour sometime soon. I gave their 6.5% bottle conditioned Christmas Beer I try and based on that am now keen to work my way [...]

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Punk’d by the Portman Group

Last week some of the Beer Viking crew made a couple of visits to Borough to visit the Rake and Utobeer.  We noticed that through Melissa Cole, who’s Taking the Beard Out of Beer and admin for social networking group lovebeer@borough has joined forces with Scottish craft brewers BrewDog for a take-over of the Rake, [...]

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Haand Bruggeriet Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood is my first beer from the Norwegian craft brewers Haand Bryggeriet and from this experience, they are definitely going onto the must try all beers from this brewer list. First time and again, I got to watch for reading ingredient lists but I really got an early upfront note of the junipers.  Dare [...]

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