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Christmas Beers – Hepworth Vintage Christmas Ale (2008)

In one of the round of interesting Christmas beers I found for the UK, most of them seem to be from Horsham, West Sussex. Hepworth rocks.  Andy Hepworth seems to be admired by most folks in the UK as a quality brewer and this beer is so nice. I had a bottle conditioned one of [...]

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dark star winter solstice; sus…

dark star winter solstice; sussex; 4.2; nah not so good. but at the speaker pub in vic which is a good spot.

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Setting the Standard for Twitter Updates

While Hunting for the Best Beer in the Universe, we have found that Twitter is a very useful tool in doing quick posts on all the different beers we are trying. One of the best things is also the worst things about Twitter and that is the brevity of being held to only 140 characters [...]

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Dark Star Critical Mass, Susse…

Dark Star Critical Mass, Sussex-7.8%-Cask-Min Head-Very Dark, Treacle clr-Slight bitter, sweet upfront, goes v. dry – Firesider!! 17

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Tasting Help – Sunburst Is It

German was on hand from Vancouver to help in making an important decision.  What beer was going forward in the Golden Ale category for Beer of the Summer 2008? First order was to see how the Darkstar Sunburst did against the award winning Hopback Summer Lightning. And the result was that in a nudge and [...]

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Beer of the Summer Qualification – Golden Ales – Dark Star SunBurst Takes It

Well, well….just did a blind taste and in a big surprise Dark Star SunBurst has come out swinging and has taken out the Hammerpot.  Previously, the Tank was loving the Madgwick Gold and that’s why this a big surprise.

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