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Salopian Brewery Darwins Origin (4.3%) – a great bottled beer

We recently had the pleasure of drinking the Salopian Brewery Darwins Origin (4.3%) on cask at a small August bank holiday beer festival in Kent. From cask it rated a respectable 15/20 on the @brewrank scale. Here's how the Salopian website describes the brew: Style: Darwin’s Origin is an eclectic mix of hops from across the world [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Northern California Raid: After Day 1 (Updated)

photo credit: 123 look at me Updated original post with scores and notes on the Red River Belgians (See Beers) Some of the BeerViking ( mostly Doc D but Hunter as well) crew are heading to Northern California on a serious pillage mission. They will be filing field reports via Twitter and at HQ we’ll [...]

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Beer No 23 is Dark Star Sunbur…

Beer No 23 is Dark Star Sunburst – in Around My Garden in 80 Beers summer 2009. Such a tasty, hoppy and drinkable golden ale 16/20.

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Wandsworth Common Beer Fest ’09 – recap and beer list

Well, we’ve got to say the WCBF ’09 was a massive success not just a great venue with great beer but also  good food and wonderful staff. The host Mark and his team at La Gothique did awesome job and we will be back next time. Did we have a hangover? Yes and it rated [...]

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