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Topping Out with Edinburgh's Newest Brewery
Edinburgh used to be one of the biggest brewing cities in the country, but over the years this has been whittled away by fires, mergers, closures and bankruptcies. Today there are only a handful...
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Drinking in Edinburgh: An #EBBC13 roundup
First beers of the weekend in theRed Squirrel, which became a regular haunt Last weekend was spent at the beer bloggers conference in Edinburgh. We had all manner of interesting sessions to attend and...
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#TheSession #78: My Elevator Pitch for beer
First Friday of the month means the session is here again; this month hosted by James of Beer Bar Band. We're asked this month to argue for beer in 250-words or less in the style of an "elevator pitch"...
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Hunting Gromit
(Or a stealth pub crawl in Bristol.)Â Wake up, sweltering heat not entirely all there from the night beforeLong wait for packed bus courteous shirtless belying stereotypesDog disguised as a dinosaur,...
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Craft Beer Explosion
Keg and cask to keep everyone happy!Bristol is awash with decent new bars and breweries at the moment. Fresh on the heels of the Barley Mow's refurbishment comes the change of use of one of Bristol's...
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Buxton Sours
One beer style which is currently "on trend" in the UK at the moment is the berlinner weisse, or even sour beers in general. We've had a number from Brodies and now Buxton is getting in on the act.They...
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#CABPOM August Seno RusioKvass and Diplomats Siers
Something a little different cheese and beer wise this month. Perusing my local Eastern European food store I came across a selection of nominally alcohol free Kvass beers. Kvass is fermented from rye...
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Waening Again
IÂ hadn't tried any beers from Waen since my very first blog post, some 2 1/4 years ago; so decided to rectify that when some untried beers popped up in stalwart bottle supplier Ales by Mail.I must say...
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A decatet of brewers!
Northern Ireland brewer numbers will have near doubled by the time 2013 is over. Northern Ireland is finally waking up to the beer resurgence going on in both Britain and Ireland! Along with the Red...
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Apps for Boozehounds
Smart phones are ubiquitous these days and they've become a useful tool for roving (beer) drinkers. Not least having Google Maps to hand can help prevent walking in the opposite direction to where the...
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Irish Beers to Watch Out For
Following on from Boak and Bailey's suggestion(I think) here's some of my favourite beers available from (Northern) Irish Brewers. Its not an exhaustive list,I've not tried everything and with new...
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Wild at Heart
A much anticipated brewery came flying onto the scene in 2012 and now have over 20 different beers under their belts as diverse as bretted stock ales to luxuriant imperial stouts and aggressively...
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Some Sheelin Brews
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, new Norn Iron brewer Sheelin has started supplying to the market. Brewer George Cathcart called in on his way home from a delivery run for a chat and to leave me some...
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Red Brick Beer Fest
Factoberfest, Bristol Beer Factory's answer to that infamous Munich event. I enjoyed the event back in September 2011, so was high time I paid the Tobacco Factory a visit again. After a fantastic feed...
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Autumn Beer Extravaganza (Wetherspoon Autumn Beer Festival 2013)
Its that time of year again, autumn is upon us which can only mean one thing...Wetherspoon are back with another selection of cask ales for their real ale festival. This time around we have an extra...
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Kinnegar
Another new brewery in Ireland is Kinnegar, based in County Donegal, Ireland, was built commencing March this year. First beers began appearing in August, a great turnaround of less than 6 months. You...
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Cidre World
One of my most anticipated drinks books of the year has just arrived on my doormat; so I thought I'd write a few words on my thoughts on Pete Brown and Bill Bradshaw's new book: World's Best...
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Green Shoots
Three contract brewing arrangements today, though in each case the new breweries do get involved to a lesser or greater extent. The first two are new Irish breweries (beers purchased from Drinkstore)...
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A Few New Irish Brews
2013 has certainly been a good year in beer south of the border and I've had another few tasty morsels arrive since my last Dublin visit.First up is Eight Degrees Amber Ella brought to me by The Beer...
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Tweeddale Tweet Tasting
The start of October saw another Whisky Wire tweet tasting, this time with 4 samples from Tweeddale, all at 46% ABV. The concept is interesting as the whisky was tasted in age order, with each...
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