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The Question? A friend has a few spare hours in Zurich where can he get good beer?

Simple… In the main train station in Zurich is Brasserie Federal with 200+ Swiss bottled beers and a few on tap.  Brasserie Federal Bahnhofplatz 15, 8001 Zürich, Schweiz Map: http://maps.google.com/places/ch/z%C3%BCrich/bahnhofplatz/15/-brasserie-federal?hl=en Need to look for beers from: Les bières Trois Dames (the IPA is 15/20 and the La Fraîcheur is 17/20!) Brasserie des Franches Montagnes Also worth trying one [...]

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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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Oz and James Drink to Britain, Episode 1

Oz and James Drink to Britain on BBC 2 is pretty watchable stuff. In episode 1 they finish with train station pub crawl in Yorkshire. Nice! They also go to the Thornbridge Brewery in Derbyshire.  BeerViking think Thornbridge is one to watch and the Jaipure IPA is worth having on tap but if the Kipling, [...]

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St. Peter’s Dark Ales

  St. Peter’s is a Suffolk micro-brewery that has been on the attention cusp of Beer Viking for a while now.  Their bottled beers come in a distinctive replica old school bottle from and thinking as I write, I’ve not actually had them on tap/pump. Though they do have a pub in Clerkenwell that I [...]

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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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Meantime Kolner back on tap at…

Meantime Kolner back on tap at the Florence in Herne Hill. So tasty! classy brew.

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