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Wandsworth Common Beer Festival: The Myths & Legends Ladder

This year at the 2nd Annual Wandsworth Common Beer Festival we are promoting two innovations to the beer festival format. First we take the bold move of listing them all in order of strength. As opposed to alphabetically or by brewery. They range from 3% in 0.1% increments all the way up to 10%. Second we are promoting a series [...]

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West Coast Raid – day 1: Rogue Ale Embassy, SF

Right, so I am here alone in on a boring old biz trip and suffering from some serious jet lag. Oh but lucky for me my old buddy Pat shows up to show me a great meal of Japanese noodles and then its time to raid the Rogue Ale Public House in SF, CA… And what [...]

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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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Wandsworth Common Beer Festival 2: Come Over to the Dark Side

One event that is looming large in the Beer Viking diary is the upcoming Wandsworth Common Halloween Beer Festival (and not because it’s the first event that we are sponsoring).  It will be from Thursday, 29th – Saturday, 31st October 2009. The first event from Mark and the team at Le Gothique was in March [...]

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Triple Rock Brewery & Ale House, Berkeley – west coast raid cont…

Triple Rock Brewery & Ale House, Berkeley Note: draft post… Beer List Pinnacle Pale Ale – english style pale ale, very light, pretty average. 12 Kolsch .45 – sharp, true to style. 14 Millstone Wheat – fresh, citrus, also true to style. Very drinkable. 14 Bug Juice West Coast Pale Ale – hoppy, long finish. [...]

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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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