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Arcadia Ales Sky High Rye #beer 13
Gorgeous colour the other side of amber, slight white frosting of a head. Grass, apple, grapefruit + something I can’t quite get on the nose. Drying mouthfeel with a less bitterness than expected. First taste is slightly disappointing. Overall not bad a 13 but for Rye Pale Ale the benchmark has been set very high [...]
Continue reading...It’s Official – London Has a Thriving 21st Century Beer Scene!
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Yes, in case you’ve been living under a rock London has a dynamic, innovative and world class modern beer scene. The emergence of the London Brewers Alliance and their inaugural showcase event held last Friday night is more proof that London should be on every beer enthusiasts schedule. During the Friday festivities we tasted the following brews: Ha’penny Brewing [...]
Continue reading...Salopian Brewery Darwins Origin (4.3%) – a great bottled beer
Saturday, September 18, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Ales By Mail Tasting No 1 with Beerviking [Video]
Thursday, July 29, 2010
CAMRA Beer Magazine Summer '10 Review – Ales By Mail Tasting No 1 with Beerviking The back story short version. Every issues of Beer the quarterly magazine of CAMRA has selection of bottled beers reviewed. We got an adavnce case and did our own tasting of sorts. In two parts pretty raw edit here… just the mash. We [...]
Continue reading...Wandsworth Common Beer Festival: The Myths & Legends Ladder
Friday, March 12, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...West Coast Raid – day 1: Rogue Ale Embassy, SF
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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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Friday, October 22, 2010
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