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A visit to The Kernel

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My new favourite London pub

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Finching line

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Mass-Market Brewers Attract Female Consumers By Making Less Shitty Beer

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Pedalling towards a pint

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Why lager conquered Northern Germany

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Beer Week redux #2

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Younger’s No 3 is back …

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Rob Sterowski: Glasgow, United Kingdom; I live in Glasgow and spend some of my time there drinking beer. Email me at robsterowski at googlemail dot com.

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Have Beer Will Travel

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2 years ago
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Cooking Lager

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4 years ago
The Fatal Glass Of Beer

On veganism and beer - Recently I told one of the young people I work with that I’m vegan, and apparently blew his mind. Every time I see him, he asks me a series of questions...
4 years ago
Seen Through a Glass

Iron Hill Newtown: At Long Last - I live near Newtown, Pennsylvania. I tend to tell people I live in Philly; if they're familiar with it, I say northern suburbs; if they ask where, I usuall...
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A Hauf Stop

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We Love British Pubs

Gloucestershire Contingent: Pubs 141-143 - Stopping at Birdlip, Nettleton Bottom, Withington
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The Bar Biographer

Favourite Bars of the Last Decade - No unnecessary preamble; this particular stuff requires no explanation. *LONDON* Favourite Bar - *Town of Ramsgate - *the most atmospheric of the many...
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Brew Geekery

Has SIBA taken ownership of “craft beer”? - With Tuesday’s news that the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) is to offer its members the accreditation of ‘British craft brewer’ – ostensibly in an...
5 years ago
Pivní Filosof - Beer Philosopher

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Pencil and Spoon

BeerDredge - I've got a new website! Anything new will now be posted to www.beerdredge.com. You can also read more about my books, my work and there's an updated blog...
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Have I got brews for you

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5 years ago
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5 years ago
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Whatever Happened To Light and Bitter? - * Whatever Happened To Light and Bitter? * This might seem like an exercise in nostalgia, and to some extent I guess it is, but sometimes, just some...
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The Thorny Question - Dusty A 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-aweso...
6 years ago
Emerging Brewers of Glasgow

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6 years ago
Brewing East

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Letting go - 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...
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Knut Albert's beer blog

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Are You Tasting the Pith?

Craft Beer FUBU - or - Why People Get Upset When Breweries Get Sold - I haven't blogged properly in a while (ha! "a while"), largely because I haven't had anything constructive to say. That doesn't stop many bloggers, but I r...
7 years ago
Black Country Pub

Beer and fittle at The Why Not? Why Not? - I want to run into the kitchen and beg the cook to tell me her secret. Maybe she's a Black Country witch.
7 years ago
The Dutch Beer Pages

Canterbury - Canterbury is just two hours by train from London. A welcome respite from the busy streets of the English capital. Though famous, Canterbury is a fairly sm...
7 years ago
Make Mine a Half

Industrial Sabatage or Just Vandalism - I hadn't planned on writing any more on this but late last night I discovered One Brewery has decided to respond to InBevs taking a minority share in Rateb...
7 years ago
beertravl

De la Senne Bruxellensis - De la Senne Bruxellensis is a Belgian ale refermented in the bottle with Brussels Brettanomyces. May 2016 bottling reviewed one year old, pours hazed amber...
7 years ago
Beervana

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7 years ago
BushCraftBeer

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Beer. Birra. Bier.

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7 years ago
Midlands Beer Blog Collective

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8 years ago
A Good Beer Blog

Relocation Notification For AGBB Nation - 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...
8 years ago
twistedmouth

Fierce Beer have the right attitude - Fierce Beers' new range of beers. There’ve been wave after wave of new breweries opening over the past five or so years. Established newcomers such as Fall...
8 years ago
mostly about beer......

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8 years ago
The Bitten Bullet

Hops and Needles - It's that time of year again, where I am planning my third annual Fichtenbier (spruce beer) brewday, and it put me in mind of a beer I tried last year in t...
8 years ago
Boggle About Beer

Brooklyn Comes To Dalston - Brooklyn Brewery are on the road again, taking their 'Mash' concept out to nine countries. This week, they've been in London, with events like a DIY dinner...
8 years ago
The Session Beer Project™

Building the Session Beer Train: Chris Lohring - *Chris Lohring. Notch Brewing. Session Beer.* *Photo by Mass Bev Biz* *Great interview.* I'm *proud *to note that we told you about *Chris Lohring* and h...
8 years ago
drinkdrank

Albany Ale: Chico and The Man - 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...
8 years ago
Walking and Crawling

Top Pubs & Top of the Hops down Ayrshire way: 27th February 2016 - With the 6 Nations rugby, some family matters to attend to and the generally seriously wet winter weather, I don't get about too much in February. However,...
8 years ago
Tim Hampson's Beer Blog

A dalliance with wine – the Haynes Wine Manual - Wine has a cultured history which flows like a stream of consciousness from our pre-historic beginnings to the current day. And it is a little bit of this ...
9 years ago
It Comes In Pints?

Hair of the Dog: What we learned at Brewdog’s 2015 #PunkAGM - It’s been just over a week since Brewdog’s 2015 AGM. The hop-haze has finally lifted. My ears have stopped ringing. And I can be in a room with alcohol aga...
9 years ago
Pump Clip Parade

Lighthouse Brewery - "Cheeky Little Lager" - *Lighthouse Brewery* - "Cheeky Little Lager". Spotted by @BeertiqueNZ and @Clayfiish
9 years ago
Diary of a Hop Head

Changing tastes and developing my palate - Hello World, its been a while. I'm not even going to apologise for my absence but the truth is that I do sometimes fall in and out of love with blogging. ...
10 years ago
The Drinking Man's Guide To Scotland - A View From The Bar

The Video Revolution ! - Well here we are in 2014, with new places to go and new drinks to taste !I have been spending all my money on shiny new video equipment, (much to my wife's...
10 years ago
The Three Sheets

Brouwerij Kerkom Bink Blond - Looking at the label of Brouwerij Kerkom‘s Bink Blond (5.5% ABV) inspires a smile, brought on by the promise of hops and history. There are certainly hops ...
10 years ago
Lager Frenzy

Lager arrives after WW II - 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...
11 years ago
Drinking, mostly

Top Beer & Pub Tweets Autumn/Winter 2012 - Like the Season itself we get under way with a cold, hard truth 27) [image: Classy Cassy]* @Classy_Cassy89* We are all just 2 hangovers away from Monday 2...
11 years ago
Into The Brew

When Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore, and Why I Love Barrels and Hop Cannons - Expansions are crazy times in a brewery. Try making beer with a dozen contractors running this way and that, the … Continue reading →
12 years ago
Wort 'n' all

Exciting Edinburgh - Yesterday I was going to write a blog about two halfwits, whining on about how unfined cask beer by some great breweries will bring the cask market to it's...
12 years ago
Proper Beer

Molson Coors still behind Doom Bar - Had the pleasure of meeting the new Scottish team at Molson Coors last night at The Blythswood in Glasgow as they unveiled some research into the Scottish ...
13 years ago
Bier today...

Warning! - Don't ever think about getting a train with Craig! The plan was simple - Dr Stan, Craig and I would take the short train journey to Peterborough, leaving B...
13 years ago
Get to the pub

Old Heavygate Inn, Matlock Road, Sheffield - Visited: Wednesday 4 February 2009 For the last year or two I spent living in the midlands, I had a local: the New Talbot. It was a fair stroll from my hou...
15 years ago
Beer Tinted Spectacles

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