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, [...]

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