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G for Germany
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*I will be travelling to Germany for a study tour with the Institute of
Brewing and Distilling in May*. As a life long fan of cold, fizzy,
sulphurous and q...
Of “Jesus” old and new
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A little while back I penned a sketch of aspects of drinking at college,
“Alcohol and the Academy”, see here. It included my reminiscences (some
aspects) o...
Stone immaculate
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A couple of new Californian IPAs to begin today, both part of Stone
Brewing's "Hop Worship" series, developed, I guess, in case people thought
Stone is a ...
Three Things - No - Four
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I've been busy today editing our local CAMRA magazine, *More Beer*, but
Twitter has caught my eye in between times.
Firstly a spat this morning about how ...
Bishops Arms Brittiska veckor
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Pubkedjan Bishops Arms har *Brittiska veckor *som avslutas idag söndag.
Satsningen innebär rent konkret i ett onlinequiz för klubbmedlemmarna, två
extra ...
The Distributed Brewery: Simon G and Zero Degrees
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Simon Gueneau is a Parisian trained in Belgium, based in Bristol, and
brewing Continental-style beer on Italian kit – how could we fail to be
intrigued? ...
One More Road for the Beer: Bamberg.
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Our fifth episode is ready, all queued up for your doodads. We're on
iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and most of those things that cast pods.
Please enjoy o...
Am I a Better Craft Brewer or Homebrewer?
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We're doing pretty well at Sapwood Cellars so far. Our most recent batch of
Snip Snap (Citra-Galaxy DIPA) only lasted 2.5 days on draft, about 200
gallons ...
#FlagshipFebruary - South Street Satan's Pony
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In the nearly ten years since Mrs V and I upped sticks from the Czech
Republic (not sorry, but I will never refer to the Czech lands as
"Czechia"), Charlot...
Donnington's Honesty Box
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*Although the old-fashioned beers might taste like boiled sweets and
Brexit, there's no denying Donnington is England's most beautiful brewery. *Still
powe...
Hielander Whisky festival 2019
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Zaterdag 9 februari Reeds vorig najaar had ik een kaartje voor dit festival
gekocht, dat leverde toen ook wat korting op de toegangsprijs op. Nadeel
van ve...
Forty years of beer on film
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I picked up a DVD last week, at the end of CAMRA's online January sale,
about the history of the organisation, released in 2011 to mark its
fortieth annive...
Belonging #earlydoors
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*The Craft Crow, Nottingham *
The deep sonorous tones of the church bells speak like an authoritative
headmaster from the age of pain, ...
Back to 78
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This is an interesting thread from Steve Dunkley of Beer Nouveau: There
seems to be another round of outcry at beer festivals such as @MancBeerFest
serving...
Nu over 200 danske bryggerier
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Med 206 er der rekordmange bryggerier i nyere tid i Danmark, viser
Beerticker analyse for Bryggeriforeningen. Ved årtusindskiftet var der blot
12 bryggerie...
From the Archives
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The Hillgate Crawl - December 1984
This Stagger, down Stockport's Hillgate, appeared in the January 1985 issue
of *Opening Times*. Written by me, it record...
Wyldes Refurbishment
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Wyldes sits on the corner of Bolton St and Market Place in the centre of
Bury. When it first opened, it was a flagship Holts pub. It sold Mild,
Bitter and,...
Bless me Fadder.. fur oi haff sinned ...
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It's been many a moon since I last saw the inside of the confessional box.
And in all that time I've not once felt the need to return..in honesty I
never re...
Trying some beers in the Tri-City
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For British people of my generation, who are perhaps not as educated as
they should be, Gdansk doesn’t sound like an appealing destination. When I
was grow...
The Thorny Question
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DustyA few weeks back I went into one of Preston's ever-increasing number
of micropubs. Usually this place stocks the uber-awesome beers from
uber-awesom...
Letting go
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It is often difficult to accept defeat. Indeed, when one has been working
on something for a long time it can be almost impossible to actually make
that fi...
The Oakwood and Me
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“He awakens from this dream unable to remember exactly what it was, or much
at all beyond the simple fact that he has dreamed about being a child
again. …H...
Goodbye
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I never realised this was still active.
However due to the untimely demise of the creator of the site I feel it is
inappropriate to to keep it going.
The ...
Blind tasting Pils for our local
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There are a few things that are worth dusting off the old beer blog for,
and a blind tasting is certainly one of them. In this case, a blind tasting
to dec...
This is BIG
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*Hi there. *
I know, I know: nothing for years. The blog is dead, long live Twitter.
But you know? Some things deserve more space.
And this...is *BIG*.
No,...
Changes A-Coming
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Yes, this blog is miserably out-of-date, which is why I am preparing to
scrap the whole thing and replace it with something more user-friendly.
Please bear...
Save the Greys!
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*Save the Greys! Local community bids to purchase famous Brighton music
venue*
*The following press release is courtesy of Phil Mellows*
Pub-goers have l...
A Quick Blog Post For IPA Day
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*If you really want to know why IPA was supposedly so strong and hoppy,
look not to the breweries, but to India...*
Today is apparently International Let's...
I just believe in beer
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(With apologies to John Lennon) Beer is a concept By which we swallow our
pain I’ll say it again Beer is a concept By which we swallow our pain I
don’t b...
In a Post-Craft World, Let’s Just Try Transparency
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My new column in BeerAdvocate Magazine this month is out and has already
sparked some heated exchanges on Twitter. I’ve always been a drink whatever
I like...
Irish Craft In London - One Year On...
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As we head into the early Spring, it's almost time to get up to speed with
a new round of events featuring the best of the Irish Craft Beer Scene. In
2016,...
Relocation Notification For AGBB Nation
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By the end of 2016, this part of the internets will be no more. The blog
posts are being moved to the new home of *A Good Beer Blog* but this place,
this...
Arrived in London
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The travel was uneventful -- I missed the Delta meltdown by a day. After
getting settled in our rooms, we headed out for a beer.
First stop was a new place...
Blast From the Past: June 2007
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Prowling through the archives just now looking for a post I vaguely
remember which, if it exists, has some information that would brighten up a
column I am...
A Czech Influence on Belgian Brewing
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The influence of Czech brewing often seems surprisingly underappreciated
abroad. The great Czech brewing scientist František Ondřej Poupě might have
writte...
A bicycle made for brew – part two
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By Liz Dodd Click here to read part one of our beery bike ride Westvleteren
to Roeselare I lay still inside a horse shed in a Belgian field and
listened to...
Albany Ale: Chico and The Man
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Stan is currently working on his forthcoming book *Brewing Local, *and
he's been kind enough to inquire about Albany Ale for the project. We've
been emaili...
The End
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I returned to Harrogate after my whirlwind tour and started back at
Roosters. With only a week and a half left in the UK, it didn’t take long
to return to...
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ALL in united states
World T0ur. With the Statue of Liberty as a national icon, the United
States is widely known as the Land of Liberty. Over the last fe...
Brew Day: Pliny the Elder-ish
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It is not often that I try and clone a commercial beer. In all the years
I've been home brewing, I can think of only a few instances where I've
brewed a cl...
Thomas Hardy's Ale Reborn
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This beauty arrived by post yesterday so I thought it was time to end my
silence.
The rights to the Thomas Hardy Ale name have now passed to a company in...
Att hantera negativ kritik
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För några månader sedan beställde jag ca 20 öl från nya svenska
hantverksbryggerier som jag inte testar förut. Vilken kväll det blev! Jag
vaskade mer än pr...
Einde.
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Aan alles komt ‘n end. Ook aan dat woord, geloof ik, want “end” is
ouderwets en nou zegt iedereen “einde”. Ik ook maar dan. Dit blog gaat
dicht. Ja. Maar e...
Pub Interiors
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Recently, I had beery evenings over three successive nights that took in
three very different kinds of pub, almost a tour of London’s pub history in
a way....
Inundation and Appreciation
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Life post-brewing has been kind. I’ll be honest, I don’t have any source of
income at the moment (which has a few downsides) but there is the hope that
one...
How to class up your house
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The key is by rearranging your house is going to watch some pictures of a
modern house or hire in a specialist normally white walls, red carpets, art
pa...
Natural light and darkness
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We’ve spent a good deal of time this weekend trying to keep a nest of baby
black birds safe from marauding magpies. The parents are doing the best
they can...
The Last Toast - The Final Capital Times Column
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I have reflected several times recently about how beer has changed in New
Zealand over the last two or three decades, and for this my final column
I’m goi...
Lager arrives after WW II
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Still on the hiatus from blogging (is nearly three years still a hiatus?),
there’s some great stuff being blogged about the origins of the lager boom
in th...
New Parents- Get Thee to the Pub!
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So I'm a mum now. It inevitably changes your life- new bits wobble, going
to bed at 11pm feels like a late night and the living room floor looks like
a Fis...
Tuber Babies, Human Sacrifice and Harvest Home.
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I’m reading the fascinating Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers by Stephen
Harrod Buhner, and was quite taken by the myth of Mani, the magic baby girl
born of ...
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*Froth! * The Science of Beer
Mark Denny
2009, HB, 183pp
The Johns Hopkins University Press
£13.50 delivered from Amazon
Reviewed July 2012
Mark Den...
Again, Apfelwein
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Of course I had to make it. Apfelwein. Apple juice + (optional) corn sugar
+ yeast = alcohol. Takes like five minutes to make, five weeks to ferment,
and a...
L'Aveu.
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*Carlsberg Suisse*, enfin, *Feldschlösschen*, viennent de laisser passer un
aveu majeur, dont je me demande s'ils ont bien saisi la portée...
Dans un comm...
A preview of May’s guest beers…
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Our first beer fest might be over, but we’ve a cellar full of great ales
that will be making an appearance in May. Tomorrow we’ll be kicking off the
week w...
Fantastic Frankfurt Webcam
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I’ve stumbled upon such a nice and simple live webcam of Frankfurt am Main
skyline. It updates the pic by reload once a minute or so. This is how
Frankfurt...
3 comments:
So Ron, is the Café Lexington now called the Café Williamspark? John
DrJohn, yep. Well, Grandcafé Willemspark. I didn't realise until after it had closed that Lexington had been a favourite haunt of Amsterdam gangsters.
I think I met some of them there over the years! Come to think of it; they were people I brought there!
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