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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Saturday Night Showdown: Wallop vs. Torpedo

A recent mission enabled me to add to my current stocks with a visit to Utobeer. Put some beers outside (it’s turned a bit colder again at night in the countryside but 10 C is a good temp) and for no real reason decided to pit the Sierra Nevada Torpedo against the Victory Hop Wallop. [...]

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Saturday Night Fight: Sierra Nevada Pale vs. Thornbridge Kipling

In a desire to pick things up a bit in the hunt, I decided to pit two very excellent beers against each other. Thornbridge Kipling is one of my current go to beers. I really enjoy the understated use of the Nelson Sauvin hop from New Zealand that is quite fresh and delicate but still [...]

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A Beer Checklist for 2009

A few weeks ago The Tank posted about ‘setting the standard for Twitter updates‘ – which was a very interesting and useful suggestion on a pretty geeky topic. Basically what should be the data standard or codex for rating beers in 140 characters. We are still refining the ‘Twitter beer standard’ (TBS). In the meantime, [...]

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Sierra Nevada Bigfoot, Chico; …

Sierra Nevada Bigfoot, Chico; 9.6%. Utobeer rec for a barley wine to go with the stilton. It’s all mashed up and end of the night but works

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but am leaning to the Sierra N…

but am leaning to the Sierra Nevada Bigfoot

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