Beer Viking

Around My Garden in 80 Beers – the lead-in

I’ve been inspired or something or maybe its just too much sunny weather for a Beer Viking. Let me try to explain – I’ve really enjoyed using Around London in 80 Beers and now also have Around Bruges in 80 Beers (2nd edition – you need to get it!) sitting in my hands just taunting [...]

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Epic Beer – A Twitter Driven Tasting in London

We had the pleasure of running into Luke the brewer of Epic Pale Ale from New Zealand thanks to Twitter. Thanks to Twitter – that’s a whole other ‘power of social media’ post one day – we managed to track him down at the Market Porter next to Borough Market. He’s been over in the [...]

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Some photos from late 2008… random

Ok so the BV team needs a flickr account… Anyway some photos from ‘08. Most are from the Groninger brewpub in Hamburg (December) and one is a Friday session at the Rake in London (~October).

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In Search of a Perfect Pint – The Science

Great article in the Independent about the importance and science of good beer making.  Which was published the day that Rob Bell was giving a talk at the RI about the Science of Beer. From reading about the great work Rob is doing at O’Hanlon Brewing Company including the resurrection of hte Thomas Hardy Ale, he’s [...]

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