Beer Viking

Christmas Cracker 2009

In a time honoured tradition, the Beer Viking crew recently had their annual Christmas Cracker.  Sometimes we get more organised and arrange a pub crawl and send out invites and sometimes it’s just the two captains, Doc and Tank, trying as many quality beers as possible.  On that point, it really is about enjoying beer [...]

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Around London in 80 Beers – book review

  What a gem of a book! Thank you to Pollard & McGinn for putting this together. You can order your copy here on Books About Beer website. The premise is simple enough – a guide to 80 pubs in London with 80 recommended beers to try at each pub when you visit. The selection of pubs [...]

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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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Pub du Vin, Brighton – First Glance

The sun is shining and I have pressing agenda but I decided to look away from the precipice and take the time to drop in for the first time at the Pub du Vin, Brighton. I will come back later to add more details but wanted to capture initial thoughts: If this is the plan these guys [...]

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Avebtinus, germany, 8.2 fuck, …

Avebtinus, germany, 8.2 fuck, bottle. wow that is a sweet tasting dark larger. 18. at the rake.

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Rogue Juniper Pale Ale, USA, 5…

Rogue Juniper Pale Ale, USA, 5.2, nice floral almost tree like sweet tastes. like it. 14. at the rake… tanks wants to rename himself?

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