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Tap & Bottles acoustic song session - This monthly singaround in the Tap & Bottles, 19 Cambridge Walks, Southport, Merseyside, PR8 1EN. Next Monday 26 June will be the fourth at this venue. A...
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Wódka Live - This place seems to have gone through quite a few names in not many years: the Bullnose Bat (or was it Bull Nose Bat? or Bull-nosed Bat?), and Square, and ...10 hours ago
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From the cellar: Herold Czech Black Lager / Tmavé speciální pivo - Herold Tmavé speciální pivo ABV: 5.3% Origin: Březnice, Středočeský kraj, Czech Republic Website: www.pivovar-herold.cz First published: 5 February 2001 ...11 hours ago
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News, Nuggets & Longreads 24 June 2017: Markets, Marketing, Manchester - Here’s all the beer- and pub-related reading that’s entertained, educated or amused us in the last seven days, from football lagers to Mancunian tap-room...13 hours ago
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Forty years on - Today is my fifty-eighth birthday, and thus I’m marking forty years of legal drinking in pubs. I remember celebrating my eighteenth with a pint of Greena...
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Let’s Brew 1914 Barclay Perkins X - I hope you’ve been paying attention to all these X Ale recipes. Because they’re telling a tale. About how a beer changes over time. Despite only 15 years ...
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FILEY FAX - Steal with pride, particularly blog post titles. And ALWAYS include a cat picture. This one from near Bonhommes in Filey. It’s been 15 years, back to Euro ...22 hours ago
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BRAPA - Who's a Jolly Nailor then? - It was one of those ridiculously hot no-chance-of-getting-to-sleep nights, probably last Sunday, 11pm, and I was sat on my bed in just my pants (try not to...
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Birra verde - *We were in a hotel, pizzeria, bar, tobacconist, pool hall and discotheque complex on the shores of a man-made lake, high in the mountains.* The owner - a ...
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Beer of the Week – Cross Borders Braw - Friday has rolled around once again, so that means another beery recommendation to kick off the weekend. This is the 25th time I’ve selected one of the g...1 day ago
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Something out of the ordinary - One-offs, oddities and suchlike is the loose theme for this the second blog post from the 2017 Killarney Beer Festival. A new beer from Kinnegar always get...
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Helles Yeah! - I've not been to South Street as much as usual of late, for one very simple reason, they haven't had the magnificent My Personal Helles on tap for a few we...
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Breakfast Beer Tasting: Port Brewing Hop-15 - When you suspect it’s going to be one of THOSE days, you need to start the day off right. Liquid fortification and sustenance is called for. An Imperial IP...
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Lucozade - I had that Northern Monk’s Neapolitan Ice Cream Pale Ale the other day. Bought a can from my local bottle shop, wondering what it would taste like. I didn’...
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Robertsbridge - a reopening railway and a closed pub - I promised in the last post to provide an update on the *Kent & East Sussex Railway’s* plans for their heritage railway, and also on the situation regard...
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Where are Britain's "Legendary" Beers? - *Words & Photo - Matthew Curtis* I sat down with my friends Claire Bullen and Chris Hall this weekend as we embarked on a new project together. Towards ...5 days ago
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The Pub Men of Erlangen - A fact unknown to most beer communicators is the “The Tandleman” is not in a fact just a beer blog or communicator or a blogger but a title given to the fi...
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A Beer With No Soul? - *A Beer With No Soul?* *"... that's why I'm pissed off now, especially by United States customers, they don't give a shit when InBev is buying another com...6 days ago
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CLAPHAM NORTH – May 2017 - From Clapham Common last month to Clapham North this month – what variety we are treated to by arranging our route alphabetically! And the geographical d...6 days ago
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Miracle Brew by Pete Brown - *I can’t think of a book I’ve waited longer for*. Even Stan Hieronymus’s For The Love of Hops didn’t seem to take so long to arrive. I'd stumped up the mo...
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There’s a B in both - We spent a weekend in Exeter recently. We stayed in a Premier Inn just opposite the main station; handy as far as it goes, although we soon discovered that...2 weeks ago
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#MancuniaUberAlles : Manchester Beer – As Good As It Gets - Manchester. Beer City. Do you get it yet? We have – arguably – the UKs earliest “craft” brewery, in Marble. We have the highest rated brewery in the UK, in...2 weeks ago
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General Election 2017 – The Nihilism Of It All - Back on the 18th of April 2017, when Theresa May called for a General Election to be held in the UK on the 8th of June it made perfect sense in her dull, l...2 weeks ago
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Book events this summer - and Stoke Newington LitFest this weekend!! - *I'm doing lots of events this summer - starting closer to home, then going further away. Some of them must be near you, surely...* For the eighth year, ...
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@IlkleyBrewery tasting at @BeerRitzLeeds - Notorious F.I.G. and Lotus IPA - Our latest Saturday tasting was a few weeks ago - we're a bit slow at getting this video up owing to various bits of lurgy and absence - but we were very p...
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Hardknott past, present and future - Hardknott is just over 11 years old. We started with a two-and-a-bit barrel (3.5hl) plant brewing occasionally for the pub we then owned. We almost exclusi...2 months ago
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I don’t want to change the world, I’m not looking for New England. - Right now, the hottest trend in brewing both sides of the Atlantic is the hazy, juicy style of pale hoppy beer that has come to be known New England IPA or...3 months ago
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Sexism - Average sexist pumpclip, yesterday What with Donald Trump being elected US President, sexism is in the news. Apparently, Mr. Trump is not as progressive o...
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Cask beer at a crossroads? - [image: MBW pic - cask filling] Tales of cask beer's demise are greatly exaggerated. Despite the recent furore in the blogosphere, cask continues to grow...5 months ago
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12 Beers of Xmas #12 - Imperial Stout Special Edition (Cloudwater) - OK it is nearly midnight so this will be quick. Cloudwater of Manchester are the best brewery in the UK at the moment. No debate here. This bottle just ...
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On splitting KeyKegs - I had a few 30L slimline KeyKegs split on me after filling which, especially for our first kegged gyle, cost us a lot in lost revenue just when we needed i...
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