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Wandsworth Common Beer Festival – The Landlords Beer Ladder

As we said last week at this year's Wandsworth Common Beer Festival we are promoting two innovations to the beer festival format. First we take the bold move of listing them all in order of strength. As opposed to alphabetically or by brewery. They range from 3% in 0.1% increments all the way up to [...]

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Danish Christmas Beer Booty – intro and photos

Well, the Danish Christmas Beer Booty – a gift to myself – has been awesome. By booty I am talking about a 'pirate' or viking or is a nautical term for treasure! Anyway all the beers I've had rate 12-16s out of 20. A fuller @brewrank report to follow in the meantime here are the [...]

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West Coast Raid – day 2: Anchor Brewery Tour, photos/intro

So, day two and I managed get a couple of places on a tour of Anchor Brewering Co. My buddy Joe who is a retired naval officer was happy to join me. Trust me this was an awesome tour, its free, the leder was very good and the beer tasting room amazing! They are best [...]

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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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Altes Tramdepot brewpub, Bern Switzerland – this place rocks!

We had 45 mins free before leaving Bern (unfortunately it was a biz trip not a beer raid). Just enough time to sample a couple of great beers at the local Altes Tramdepot brewpub. As brewpub goes this place rated a @pubrank 18!Located next to the bear pits with a great view across to the [...]

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