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Wee Beefy's beer and pub blog

Entering the darkside.....' - Hello folks - am now on my old laptop and new keyboard - and it has taken me two hours to log in! But am alive, reasonably well, and once again actually ...
6 hours ago
The Beer Nut

So it's come to this - The non-alcoholic beer boom brings a new local brand to the shelves. So.Beer is part of a range of health drinks from a company called The Naked Collective...
21 hours ago
Shut up about Barclay Perkins

Let's Brew Wednesday - 1961 Clarke 1/2 MB - Clarke is a bonus brewery. I came across a brewing book of theirs totally by chance. Because it’s mixed in with Boddington’s ones. A mis-cataloguing, I’m...
22 hours ago
Tandleman's Beer Blog

Substantial Meals Abolished. Insubstantial Meals Still an Issue - It seems that the bonkers and inappropriate condition that pubs could only open during a particular phase of lockdown restrictions if they served a subst...
1 day ago
Ed's Beer Site

Avenge Kronstadt! - *A hundred years ago today the sailors of Kronstadt naval garrison rose in revolt against the dictatorship of the Russian Bolshevik “Communist” Party. *S...
2 days ago
Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog

News, nuggets and longreads 27 February 2021: roadmaps, poorter, Untappd - Here’s everything about beer and pubs that grabbed our attention in the past week from the end of lockdown to beer stolen from a shipwreck. The big news ...
4 days ago
The Bar Biographer

The Eternal Whipping Boy - So here we are, 11 months in, and a few days before the UK government’s announcement of their “roadmap” out of lockdown. Amidst the mountains of specu...
1 week ago
Pubmeister writes…

Arlesey: Bricks, Beer and Bedlam - Despite the homogenisation and ongoing obliteration of our high streets, much of Britain wears its history well. Look up and you can see buildings from dif...
1 week ago
Jeffrey's Morris Dancing Blog

Villages Chocolate Oboe - *Two days ago, on a lazy lockdown afternoon, a DPD fella persistently banged on the pub's door, disturbing my bath.* He got to see me with a towel around...
1 week ago
The Fatal Glass Of Beer

Do you remember drinking Friary Meux? - For the past six months or so, I've been digging for information on the *Friary Brewery* in *Guildford*. In 1956 it merged with the Meux brewery to bec...
2 weeks ago
Appellation Beer: Beer From a Good Home

Drunk every day in California since 1851 - In case you missed it, Anchor Brewing unveiled new labels this week. Many words have been spilled analyzing the new look, what this means, Whether it was a...
5 weeks ago
A Hauf Stop

Our Transport Services ( 1949 ) - Our Transport Services 1949 NLS Tram Depot Bus Depot Tram Building
5 weeks ago
Seen Through a Glass

New Year. New Post. Again. - Remember me? No apologies, no excuses. Here's why I'm here. I did a lot of writing on social media the past three days about the FDA trying to suddenly c...
2 months ago
Blog ums Bier

Wildbräu Grafing – ein Lichtblick in 2020 - [See image gallery at www.blog-ums-bier.de] Insgesamt und global gesehen war das Jahr 2020 nicht gerade eines zum Aufheben, ist man geneigt zu sagen. Und...
2 months ago
Mars Rant

It’s the wine talking, darling. - She stares out, in the distance. Nothing is the way it was. Nothing’s ever been the way it was supposed to be. There’s an empty place and an empty glass. T...
2 months ago
Seeing The Lizards

Wandering Through Rona Land - Coping Skills I had intended to do a post before now, but something always changes in the whole COVID-19 situation, rendering all my ideas obsolete overni...
3 months ago
Oh Good Ale

Greebling - Boak and Bailey make some interesting comments about pub tat – here a tin-plate sign, there a fishing float or two, and everywhere shelves of unread books ...
3 months ago
Cooking Lager

A final pint - My last blog post was a bit of a downer. I’ll try to cheer up on this one. I seem to have created a theme of chronicling end of pubs. The travails of the...
4 months ago
The Bier-Traveller

Two Nights in Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia - Friday, September 25th Today was Hector’s third visit to Gdansk and technically Marg’s second, however, her first was a matter of heading straight to the a...
5 months ago
Woolly Dave's beer and stuff blog

Living with cancer, chemo, lockdown and work - Moving from a position of being self-employed to working for someone else is something of an adjustment. Going from having control and responsibility of ab...
6 months ago
Have I got brews for you

The world is a smaller place now - Back in April, in the middle of lockdown, I had a look at what yeasts I actually had in the fridge. I totally forgot I had this! A big shout out to Dan fro...
7 months ago
We Love British Pubs

3 Magical Memories from Small Pub Britain - One of the wonderful side effects of this pandemic has been the resurgence in community spirit that we've seen. After decades of becoming gradually more ...
9 months ago
Pivní Filosof - Beer Philosopher

The Lockdown from Behind the Taps - In the evening of Friday 13 May, the Czech government announced series of measures that effectively put the country on lockdown. The borders were closed, p...
9 months ago
Have Beer Will Travel

Last Day in Dublin - I finally headed out to check out the new BrewDog Dublin Outpost in the Grand Canal Docks area. I ended up tacking a taxi as there is really no convenient ...
1 year ago
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...
1 year ago
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 ...
1 year ago
ouhouse

Xian Brewing, Xian City, Shaanxi Province, China - Xian is probably best known as the place you stay when visiting the breathtaking Terracota Army. It’s the oldest of the ancient capitals having accommodate...
1 year ago
Get Beer. Drink Beer.

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...
1 year ago
Cafe Abseits Blog

Das FBM öffnet am 03. April 2019 auf dem Michaelsberg wieder seine Pforten. - Das FBM in Bamberg öffnet am 03. April 2019 auf dem Michaelsberg wieder seine Pforten. Die bewährten bierigen Erlebnisangebote ergänzend - Führungen mit p...
1 year ago
Emerging Brewers of Glasgow

Dead End Brew Machine - My last blog is on Dead End Brew Machine. Chris at Dead End Brew Machine has perhaps received the most international recognition of all the small Glas...
2 years ago
Brewing East

Pilsen, Czech Republic: the home of golden lager - Hop on a train in Prague for an hour and a half to find yourself in the ancient city of Plzeň, or Pilsen in English, the fourth largest city in the Czech R...
2 years ago
Knut Albert's beer blog

A taste of Africa, or a beer to drink down by the elephants - My wife visited Southern Africa earlier this year, including a few days in Mozambique. She as kind enough to bring back a can of beer. It`s called Mac-Maho...
2 years ago
Make Mine a Half

Life isnt Black or White - Now i dont blog much these day, generally only when i get worked up over something, as anyone who knows me knows my Grammar and Spelling Suck. But anyone t...
2 years ago
twistedmouth

Review: BAWSfest - Annual swimming and drinking event set to rival iconic Glastonbury festival Friday May 4 – Sunday May 6 ★★★★★ Somerset has Glastonbury, Edinburgh has ...
2 years ago
The Bitten Bullet

Blind tasting Pils for our local - 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...
2 years ago
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...
3 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.
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Beervana

The Beervana Blog Has Moved - The Beervana Blog has moved. This site is no longer actively updated, though I'm not doing an automatic redirect for people who are landing in the archives...
3 years ago
BushCraftBeer

Three Bullet Tuesday – 28 March - Something slightly different this week. I’m taking some time to respond to some other blogs. Enjoy. 1. Why do we drink beer where we drink beer? by Peter M...
3 years ago
Boggle About Beer

Irish Craft In London - One Year On... - 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,...
4 years ago
Beer. Birra. Bier.

Beers and Breweries to Drink in 2017 - Rather than write a Golden Pints post, here’s are the breweries and beers that will be at the top of my list this year. These days I tend to value good bee...
4 years ago
Midlands Beer Blog Collective

Brewing Hoppy Hopkins - Originally posted on aBurtoniansAdventuresInBeer: It was a 7AM start on Wednesday 15th June when Alex Hill picked me up to brew Hoppy Hopkins, the monthly ...
4 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...
4 years ago
mostly about beer......

Albion august - *August azure* *The pores of your skin dilate from the lurid heat. The way the light in the evening sends people’s shadows spilling across the ground, yo...
4 years ago
Tim Hampson's Beer Blog

Ten of the best for a tasting in Russia - There are my 10 beers/brewers for a tasting at the BrewWorld conference in St Petersburg, Russia next week. Brew Dog Punk IPA Chimay Blue Duvel Mikkeller R...
4 years ago
The Session Beer Project™

Apropos of Session Beer Day - For all you nimrods who ask me, "Hey, do you drink *session whiskey*, too? Uh huh, huh, *session* whiskey!" There is session whiskey, you dopes: we call i...
4 years ago
It Comes In Pints?

A bicycle made for brew – part two - 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...
4 years ago
Walking and Crawling

Rhythm and Brews in Montrose: 5th March 2016 - There were a quite a few beery events around this weekend in Scotland, always great to see, but I'd decided to take advantage of a very cheap return fare t...
4 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...
4 years ago
Pump Clip Parade

Pumpclip Parade Has Moved.... - Pumpclip Parade can now be found at *www.pumpclipparade.co.uk*. This blog will stay in place but will no longer be updated. All new posts will be made to *...
5 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. ...
6 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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 →
8 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...
8 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 ...
9 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...
9 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...
12 years ago
Beer Tinted Spectacles

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