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Danish Christmas Beer Booty – intro and photos

Well, the Danish Christmas Beer Booty – a gift to myself – has been awesome. By booty I am talking about a 'pirate' or viking or is a nautical term for treasure! Anyway all the beers I've had rate 12-16s out of 20. A fuller @brewrank report to follow in the meantime here are the [...]

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Around My Garden in 80 Beers – the lead-in

I’ve been inspired or something or maybe its just too much sunny weather for a Beer Viking. Let me try to explain – I’ve really enjoyed using Around London in 80 Beers and now also have Around Bruges in 80 Beers (2nd edition – you need to get it!) sitting in my hands just taunting [...]

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Wine Viking post numero uno… Trios Terres

Well, a bit of a departure for BV. A post on wine. Maybe we need to start WineVIking next? I met the wine maker back in the summer of Trois Terres in the S. France. Cool dude. More on that another time. His wife was kin enough to send me a case of his wine. [...]

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Christmas Beer – Ballards Wassail

Getting near the end of the Christmas Beer tasting and will try to do a wrapup. The label on this one is pretty cool with a Viking (Olde English) tale about where the word Wassail came from. This was a conditioned bottle bought from the well stocked Middle Farm in East Sussex.  I was also [...]

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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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Great British Beer Festival 2008 – report and checklist

The Beer Viking crew managed to get away from the sea long enough to attend the Great British Beer Festival in London back the summer – it was held 5-9 Aug 2008. However, during the long journey back home aboard our viking longship we lost the tasting list and our brew review notes. These historical [...]

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