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Salopian Brewery Darwins Origin (4.3%) – a great bottled beer

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 [...]

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The 2010 Battersea Beer Festival – a short review

The 2010 edition of the Battersea Beer Festival in London (Feb ) was another solid event. A great selection of UK craft beer and reasonable International stand of mainly Belgian and German beers. However, I didn't find a single American beer on site – buy maybe I missed something. I was down on the landlord and brewer day which was [...]

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75% Done with Drinking my #BeerSwap Brews – the story so far

The 1st great British Beer Swap has been a lot of fun despite some issues with Collect+ (the shipping service we used). A bog thanks must be said to the brains behind this event – Andy & Mark from http://www.beerreviews.co.uk/ and http://real-ale-reviews.com/ . My SWEEEET set of beers came to me from The Beer Bear [...]

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