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London Brewers Alliance 2011 Showcase
At the end of last month the London Brewers Alliance held the second of their annual showcase events. Here's a few photos from the day:
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The Kernel - Double Black IPA
There’s a scene in Cloverfield where the mutilated, dismembered head of lady liberty is seen crashing down a Manhattan street. Apparently unfazed by a glimpse of the colossal monster responsible for...
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London and South East Craft Brewing Competition 2011
This weekend past, the London Amateur Brewers hosted the first ever ‘London and South East Craft Brewing Festival’ in Wimbledon, London. Borrowing heavily from the now defunct Sutton competition that’s...
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British Guild of Beer Writers
The British Guild of Beer Writers held their annual awards last week, and at that ceremony I was honoured to be awarded the silver prize in the 'Best Use of Online Media' category. If you write or...
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The Golden Pints 2011
Well I knew I was indecisive, but this took ages! Here are my Golden Pint winners for 2011.Best UK Draught BeerTo pack so much flavour into a beer so small; Redemption Trinity really is a triumph....
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Thornbridge Kipling - Speechless
Thornbridge Kipling.Images from here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
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A Letter From An Old Friend
I received a letter from an old friend. It felt like something I should post:Dear Mark,I’m hoping you can help me. I’m worried my parents don’t love me anymore.It started when they sent me away to...
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Brewdog Blitz!
If you want to learn about beer, you’d do much worse than to start homebrewing. What better way to understand the ingredients and processes integral to beer, than to get hands-on with them? I’m always...
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Homebrew - Almost Tasty
I often hear people say: "anyone can throw a load of hops into a beer, it's balance that requires skill". Whilst I'm inclined to agree, I also think that achieving a bright, clean, pronounced hop...
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Hallway-de-Sour
I like the idea of having lots of different wild homebrew aging in the cellar. Just hanging out down there, slowly maturing and developing. Not in bottles as finished beer, but in bulk. Ageing on...
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Tropical Weisse & Hopfenweisse
I've been brewing like mad lately. I think my fermentation chamber has been constantly full since the middle of January. I brewed a hoppy American Pale Ale that's just about ready to sample, and then a...
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Opening a Dream Brewery
How many homebrewers daydream about turning professional? Most of them, I'd bet. In fact I bet the only ones that don't, are those that've already started the journey toward a brewing career.So here's...
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Apricot Berliner Weisse
Ten days ago I brewed a double IPA. The first runnings came in at 1.067, they were bolstered with some simple sugar and then hopped generously with Centennial and Simcoe. The second runnings gave me...
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Scottish Hampers - Answer Question, Win Stuff
The people over at Scottish Hampers got in touch with me and offered one of their beer boxes as a reader competition prize.If they sucked, I would’ve said no, but the hamper genuinely includes some...
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IPA is Dead & Adding Hops to Beer
I’ll tell you what I love about Brewdog - hops. The hop flavour they manage to tear from those little green cones and force into their beer.Hopping is a funny thing. On the face of it, it’s simple. You...
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In My Fermenter: Ultra Stout
What do Mikkeller Black, Three Floyds Dark Lord and Brewdog Black Tokyo Horizon have in common? They’re all Imperial stouts; plus a bit.'Black' claims to be the strongest beer in Scandinavia. It’s...
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Scottish Hampers Competition - The Winner!
The lucky winner of the Scottish Hamperscompetition I ran a while back is ...Drum roll ...Louder ...Ok, ok, it's Rob Castle. Congratulations Rob, enjoy the beer!Well done everybody else, you all...
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Ageing Beer
What do we know about the ageing of beer?Born unsure of itself in a spiky body, all knobbly knees and disobedient limbs; angles of rough bitterness and awkward disparity. Discrete sweetness and...
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Brouwerij Cantillon - Brussels, Belgium
Past the grubby, grease-flecked windows of Eastern European takeaways; a carpet of carrier bag shifts gently in the wind; flanks of chain fence keep derelict land from busy hands, opposite an imposing,...
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Second Runnings Sour
This will never work.‘Sparging’ is the act of rinsing grain with hot water to remove as much of its natural sugar as you can. It’s standard brewing practice and fits neatly between things you might’ve...
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Golden Pints 2012
I tend to drink a lot of beer over Christmas, so I wanted to wait until the New Year before I posted this. If you're wondering what the Golden Pints are, have a look at this.Best UK Draught BeerBrewdog...
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Beavertown Skull King
What: Skull King Double IPA.Who:Beavertown, London.Where: An absolutely beautiful can, bought at the brilliant Mother Kelly's. Although, if you haven't got one by now, it's probably too late - at this...
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Red Squirrel Brewing Co - BJCP Scoresheets
I’m currently waiting to hear the results of the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) exam I sat at the end of last year. Whilst studying for it, I found that frequent practice attempts at scoring...
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Gun Brewery Sorachi Ace DIPA
Pop your head inside the craft beer bubble and find a trend more popular than the New England IPA. Hop-forward, pale beers dominated by New World hop varieties that deliver tropical fruit notes in...
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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 beer over new beer and there’s a small number of...
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