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Don’t Call Me Sandle Wearing – I Wear Flip Flops

The Times reports the exciting news that Real Ale sales in the UK are climbing according to SIBA. While crap beer sales fell approx 7.2% in Q2 2008, Real Ale sales have increased 8.1% over the first 6 months. This increase is take from SIBA’s figures on it’s direct distribution from smaller UK Brewers to [...]

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Greatbeer.co.uk – a useful guide to UK pubs

I found this useful and well written guide to UK pubs – GreatBeer.co.uk – today while trying to find the telephone number for the Black Rabbit pub in Arundel. Our own pub report to follpw here in BeerViking, in the meantime worth keeping this link.

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Planning A Raid on Brighton……

Planning A Raid on Brighton…Any Tips Below is some potential spots mapped out. Killed the map as it was hammering load times

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Looking for a Haunt – Thomas Cubitt

Again as part of the hunt to find somewhere near Victoria Station ended up visiting the Thomas Cubbitt – which really is more of a bar than a pub. Saying that, they did have Little Creatures and I’m sure some other excellent beers which makes it worth going back to check it out some more.

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Looking for a Haunt – Horse & Groom

During the recent Victoria raid, which coincided with the need to find some decent places near Victoria Station in London, came across the Horse & Groom. And what’s not to like. It’s a Shephard Neame pub that is quite small with some outside space on a mews in Belgravia. It might be a litte too [...]

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Raid – Looking for Good Pubs Near Victoria Station, London

Have recovered enough to finally write something, will follow with posts about a couple of places we made it to. Anyway, main thing is that as Doc and myself are often leaving from Victoria these days, we decided it was time to do some research and find some drinking holes down that way. Below is [...]

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