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American Beer Festival 2010 at the White Horse, SW6 in West London

We know it shouldn't be a surprise but awesome to hear that the White Horse in West London will be doing their excellent American Beer Festival over 2nd-4th July.  We'll be doing our usual and opening affairs on the Friday afternoon. Based on our time there in 2008 and 2009, we can totally recommend this [...]

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Beer Festival: 40 Ales from 40 Miles at the White Horse

Tomorrow lunchtime, BeerViking will be raiding the White Horse 40 Ales from 40 Miles Beer Festival.  It will be running all weekend but if you can make it down it would be great to meet you.   Previous years has seen this key London beer fan pub source it’s beers for this festival from a [...]

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Around London in 80 Beers – book review

  What a gem of a book! Thank you to Pollard & McGinn for putting this together. You can order your copy here on Books About Beer website. The premise is simple enough – a guide to 80 pubs in London with 80 recommended beers to try at each pub when you visit. The selection [...]

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Pub du Vin, Brighton – First Glance

The sun is shining and I have pressing agenda but I decided to look away from the precipice and take the time to drop in for the first time at the Pub du Vin, Brighton. I will come back later to add more details but wanted to capture initial thoughts: If this is the plan [...]

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Cold Beer in London

Beer Viking plays out of the home ground that is London, in particular a lot of research is put into Victoria, Soho, The Rake at London Bridge, Dullitch and Fulham.  Hailing from Canada originally I often get asked if I can stand all the warm beer in England and isn’t there anywhere that serves beer [...]

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