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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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My Notes on Tasty #beerswap Northern Brew

Some of the BeerViking’s had the pleasure in being part of the first social media British Beer community Beer Swap (#beerswap on Twitter).  Doc D has already filed his report on his beers and this is mine. I was matched to receive beers from Sam Lanes from Real Ale Reviews.  Being Leeds-based, he chose to [...]

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Landlord and Brewery Days, 3rd and 4th December

We’ve had notice that Mark Justin, a Publican with a Master of Wine, has organised to two very special days at Le Gothique on December 3rd and 4th. Carola Brown from Ballards in Hampshire and Duncan Sambrook from Sambrook’s in Battersea will both be here on Thursday 3rd to talk and field questions about their [...]

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Introducing BeerViking TV – Epic Pale Ale vs. Thornbridge Kipling South Pacific Pale Ale

The plan It was simple enough – take two interesting beers to the beach, taste them, compare them, BrewRank the beers and video it. Oh yeah, we also needed to pick a winner. The setting We had post card perfect day and beach side location. Brighton beach (in Sussex, UK) on a sunny, clear and [...]

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Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A.

He’Brew Bittersweet Lenny’s RIPA. A 10% double IPA using Rye malt that I have a brewrank of 16 to. What I Say: Dark brown beauty.  A caramel, grainy with balanced hop coming through nose.  From the nose, I was expecting it to be a lot heavier and surprised by a Sweet and Sour (the rye [...]

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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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