Worldofbeer.com is for Sale
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I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this and have decided to sell the
URL I’ve owned since the 1990s, worldofbeer.com. I’m still working out the
detail...
Systembolagets oktoberfestöl 2013
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Ja, ni vet hur det är. Oktoberfestölen. Lite starkare, ibland lite
maltigare lageröl som kommer en gång per år. Och likt glögg är de oftast
roligare inna...
Liverpool Craft Beer Expo
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What is it with these craft beer festivals? Like buses, you don’t see one
for 40 years and then they all come along in a short spell. First we had
IndyManC...
Tough Ted Tuppen Tears into Government
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I have mentioned Tough Ted before. He is the boss of Enterprise Inns, one
of the giant PubCos which are to many, Public Enemy Number One. Ted alleges
that...
Bobbin, Grey Mare Lane
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Bobbin, Grey Mare Lane, Beswick. (c) DN at Manmates Facebook [1].
What used to house Beswick Library on Grey Mare Mare until 2006, the Bobbin was a classi...
Infra Red will be in Sainsbury's
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You might have heard of the Sainsbury's Great British Beer Hunt. Indeed, if
you regularly buy beer from Sainsbury's you might have been invited to
judge. I...
The Quiet Revolution
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Last Friday, I joined some of the Widmer gents to try a flight of their
latest specialty beer--a collaboration with Cigar City called *Gentlemen's
Club*. ...
The Wrong Type of Income
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Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Going on about beer and pubs since 2007
We have been thinking a lot about pub companies recently, not least because
of the ...
Fyne Fest still rinsing it
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Yes, I take this same picture every yearIn the four years since it started,
Fyne Ales’ brewery festival has become something of a brewers’ jamboree. As
we...
Sour Times at Modern Times: The Plan
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Thursday will be my last day at my "real" job until September. After nearly
seven years working for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, I decided to treat
myse...
Is There An Event Horizon Of Beer Blog Comments
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For all the talk of beer blogging, it strikes me after over a year of
writing on these my blogs is how many of the best bits I've plunked down
are at the...
The White Queen
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I recorded the the first episode of The White Queen on BBC last night but
having read the reviews probably won't bother watching it. However, I did
check o...
Pub
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There’s a dartboard, its red foam surround pockmarked with many nights of
games; the score from the last game is still up there, a survivor of a good
night...
Anglo-American Relations
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Reading Boak and Bailey's most recent post about the "Authentic IPA" myth
and that modern American IPAs are more historically accurate to what
traditional ...
Schneider Aventinus
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I had a bottle of Schneider Aventinus yesterday.
Schneider must rank as the top wheat beer brewery in Bavaria, if not
Germany. Bombed out of their historic...
On the importance of knowledge
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I've been thinking for awhile about beer knowledge and its importance. It's
something that started going around my mind ever since I drank that Otley 08.
...
When is a rump not a rump??
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Theres been an amusing turn of events.
Tw*tadvisor have informed us that we're to receive a Certificate of
Excellence! Could it be something to do with us b...
A bit of fruity stuff!!
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One of the breweries that has rarely featured on this site is Sam Smiths of
Tadcaster. There are several reasons for this but two of the most obvious
are t...
Cherchez la fée
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The final beer out of my French haul from last summer, *Dauphine Dorée à
l'Absinthe*, was chosen solely for the novelty value, made as it is with
wormwood...
Go Mad My Son
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Yesterday, Mrs V, myself, and my parents went up to DC for a day trip. It's
only a couple of hours by car from our house to the parts of Northern
Virginia ...
It's Friesian In Here
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A balmy Tuesday night in Greenwich. I'm at Stage 2 of Man-Flu as I plod along Royal Hill for an evening with Rod Jones of Meantime. The brewery is launching ...
Good stuff at Crow Peak
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Once upon a time, I was traveling to Spearfish, a lovely little town in the
Black Hills of South Dakota. After a day of hiking, I was thirsty. So
Karen, th...
Drinking outside the box
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*I've recently had some glimpses into the world of normal beer drinkers.* A
thread on a climbing forum asked "what's the worst brewery?" and the
answers we...
A ticker is born
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Around the 27th Stockport Beer and Cider Festival in 20 beers, give or take
a few: 1. Marble Barley Wine 2. Marble Emancipation 3. Red Willow Witless
II 4....
Brew Day: English Mild
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It has been far too long since I've had a Mild on tap. Once a favorite of
mine to brew and drink, I haven't made one in over a year and with Mild
month jus...
Kuitbier eindelijk weerom
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Belofte maakt schuld. Ik beloofde in mijn vorige blog dat ik nog terug zou
komen op het onderwerp “kuitbier”. Vandaag doe ik dat. Het kuitbier zelf is
al e...
Anchor and the birth of craft beer
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Elegant lightbox at Anchor, San Francisco.
The Anchor brewery in the City of San Francisco deserves a guaranteed place
on any list of the most important ...
Philly Beer Week 2013 is on its way
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America's Best Beer-Drinking LogoI am so woefully unprepared for Philly
Beer Week...and it starts in less than 48 hours!
The fun all starts on Friday at 9...
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...
Beer-Ritz - Bottling Success.
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This is just a little heads up about Leigh Linley's interview of, er, me,
over at Culture Vultures. It was very nice of Leigh to take the time to do
this, ...
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...
Allgäuer Büble Bier
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Allgäuer Brauhaus, another part of the behemoth Oetker Group (under the
Radeberger stable) has a much larger range than I previously thought. I got
to try ...
Changing Tides and Pearls of the Pacific
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It’s amazing what 2 1/2 years away from a country can teach you. Coming
back to the UK provided me with a huge lungful of fresh (and remarkably
cool) air a...
Thoughts on Dublin and Irish Craft Beer
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*This was sitting in the "draft" folder for about 6 weeks now. Sorry about
that.*
I would say the craft beer movement in Ireland is about 10-15 years behin...
Hamburg Craft Beer Day #2
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I'm looking forward to this Saturday - it's the second Hamburg-area Craft
Beer Day, taking place at Kulturwerk-am-See, a cultural centre in the
suburb of ...
Reopened Pubs: The Well and Bucket
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I wanted to do a quick update with some happy pub news, for two reasons.
The first is that I very rarely get around to updating this blog, what with
spendi...
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...
Mulled Beer in Central Europe and the Czech Lands
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Given the frigid winters of central Europe and the region’s longstanding
love for a hot mug of mulled wine, you might expect mulled beer to be more
popular...
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...
XP abschließend beurteilt
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So, mittlerweile ist die letzte Flasche vom Younger XP-Nachbrau meine Kehle
hinuntergeflossen. Zu meinem Bedauern, da das Bier sehr lecker war. Bei der
V...
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...