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The Beer Academy: Tasting Session Beers over Britain – a very short summary

Back in May I had the pleasure of attending the Beer Academy’s 90 minutes tasting session “Beers over Britain Matched with Food” with a few mates. If you don’t already know about the Beer Academy then be sure to check out their course catalog. The Academy is part of the Institute of Brewing & Distilling. [...]

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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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Christoffel Bier Double Hopped

Had the pleasure of tasting one of these brews last nigh. A nut brown very hoppy ale. 4 starts. From the website: Born as “Christoffel Bier” this was the first beer brewed by Christoffel. After the introduction of Christoffel Robertus, this beer was named Blond refering to the colour of the beer. Blond is a [...]

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