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Christoffel – A Friday Night Blonde

What a lovely mistake. As part of the ongoing deep dive research, I grabbed a handful of what I thought was Belgian beer and by mistake grabbed a Christoffel Bier now called Blonde. As this is a whole new area of tasting, still don’t feel qualified to rate this but can say it’s tasty and will have [...]

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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 a wink, [...]

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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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Beer of the Summer Qualification Round – Golden Ales

The Beer of the Summer Taste Off 2008 is still some ways away but the Tank thought it might be good to start working on the qualification process for what tasty beer he’s going to take through to the finals. After some pondering at the bottle shop, I settled on putting a couple of Golden Ales [...]

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Hammerpot Madgwick Gold Retaste 1

Following on from the news of Lewis Hamilton and Goodwood Festival of Speed, it’s only fitting to have a beer that celebrates the Madgwick Cup and Goodwood corner. This is one easy drinking (half-pinter first sip) Golden Ale…nice tangy bitterness with some gentle hop uplifts. Definately, goes onto the list for Beer of the Summer 2008.

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Hammerpot Madgwick Gold

Had another contender for the beer of the summer from the West Sussex microbrewery Hammerpot with the Golden Ale Madgwick

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