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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 very warm day [...]

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Saturday Night Showdown: Wallop vs. Torpedo

A recent mission enabled me to add to my current stocks with a visit to Utobeer. Put some beers outside (it’s turned a bit colder again at night in the countryside but 10 C is a good temp) and for no real reason decided to pit the Sierra Nevada Torpedo against the Victory Hop Wallop. [...]

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Saturday Night Fight: Sierra Nevada Pale vs. Thornbridge Kipling

In a desire to pick things up a bit in the hunt, I decided to pit two very excellent beers against each other. Thornbridge Kipling is one of my current go to beers. I really enjoy the understated use of the Nelson Sauvin hop from New Zealand that is quite fresh and delicate but still satisfies [...]

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Oz and James Drink to Britain, Episode 1

Oz and James Drink to Britain on BBC 2 is pretty watchable stuff. In episode 1 they finish with train station pub crawl in Yorkshire. Nice! They also go to the Thornbridge Brewery in Derbyshire.  BeerViking think Thornbridge is one to watch and the Jaipure IPA is worth having on tap but if the Kipling, with [...]

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thornbridge kipling south paci…

thornbridge kipling south pacific ale – light, fruity, beligan vibe…sandy

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2008 Beer Off is Shaping Up……

2008 Beer Off is Shaping Up…Dark Star Sunburst (but tough competition with XX Bitter, Jaipur, SNHarvest 07 & Kipling http://ow.ly/iF

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