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Barcelona Beer Festival 2015
The sound of mass talking, laughing and general merriment booms down the beautiful Maritime museum hall, suddenly the noise is broken by the ringing of a bell which is greeted by huge cheers, the giant...
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BlackLab Brewhouse, Barcelona
A trip to the aquarium to try and do something that didn’t involve beer drinking during our time in Barcelona brought us to the Barcelona seafront and in doing so brought us to BlackLab Brewhouse. So...
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Bruges 8th Beer Festival 2015
366 different beers!!! How am I going to try 366 different types of beer from 97 different breweries! This is the first problem you are faced with when planning a trip to the Bruges Beer Festival. The...
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10 Top Tips for Bruges Beer Festival
Here are 10 tips to help enjoy the Bruges Beer Festival… 1. Get here as early as possible, doing so means you can walk about much easier and see where you want to go and try before its so busy you...
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A Beer in Bordeaux
In a country dominated by wine is there room for beer to shine? Bordeaux is famous for their wines but what does the city have for the beer lover? I had a chance to explore Bordeaux for a little while...
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Bordeaux Beer Shop, Bordeaux
Since my love for good beer has increased to obsession level there have been a few people I have met that ooze of so much enthusiasm, passion, ambition, knowledge and likability that makes me realise...
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Kælderkold, Barcelona
La Ramblas, one of the world’s most famous streets, a busy long snake like street with shops, restaurants and tourist attractions running down its sides with market stalls providing anything from hand...
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Garage Beer Co, Barcelona
People from all over the world travelled to Barcelona to attend the awesome beer festival this March but not only did they get to enjoy a brilliant beer festival they also got to do some beer travel...
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Urban Tap House, Cardiff
I can’t remember the first time I had my first taste of ale, it’s always been a part of me and even when I was younger when everyone was tucking into their alco-pops or cans of Fosters I was looking...
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40FT Brewery, Dalston London
In the ever evolving world of craft beer brewing you should never be surprised hearing where new places breweries are popping up in. But last week when I was told there was a new brewery in an old...
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The Pubs of York – 30th Birthday Celebrations
Over the last decade or so I, like many football fans, have travelled around the country watching our chosen team. Over that period of time it is fair to say I have visited some real shit holes! But it...
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The Jam Factory, Oxford
The Jam Factory is a restaurant / art gallery / bar situated in a former marmalade factory, and is much more than just a place to come and drink. Just across the street from the train station and on...
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How has The Alehouse never won CAMRA Branch Pub of the Year?
I don’t usually do posts like this, I leave the ranting and beer politics to people who do it much better than I do. But the more time I spend in The Alehouse Chelmsford the more it puzzles me to how...
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The Pilsner Urquell Tapster Training Program
So you want to be a tapster? You want to pour the perfect Pint? Unlike some of the bartenders of the UK, Czech tapsters are held at celebrity status, in the eyes of Pilsner Urquell they are as...
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24 Hours in the Czech Republic
As soon as I took my seat in the blacked out mini bus a pint size can of Pilsner Urquell was put in my hand, it was the first of many, the start to my first visit to Prague and the beginning to 24...
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5th December Beer Blogging Advent – An Evening in Stratford Upon Avon
Stratford Upon Avon, the birthplace of Shakespeare, home to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, The Alehouse Micropub and the location for my friend’s wedding. The missus and I travelled up the day before...
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9th December Beer Blogging Advent – Beerd Oxford
My sister lives in Oxford and after years of never visiting she paid for me to pop down and visit for my 30th birthday present. We did all the tourist bits in the day as well as a Hook Norton Brewery...
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12th December Beer Blogging Advent – 6 hours no dinner special in Bruges
4:45am my alarm clock goes off, waking me up in our IBIS hotel in Lea Bridge Road Leyton, instantly I am thanking myself for sticking to only a few pints of 3.1% Citra from Brodies in the King William...
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14th December Beer Blogging Advent – When SX Bottleshare went to Norwich
Way back earlier in the year some regulars to the SX Bottleshare all made a trip up to Norwich, I never got around to doing the blog post so thought it would be a good addition to the Beer Blogging...
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The Wellington, Bristol
I have only been to Bristol twice and both times was B.C (before craft!) and straight to the Memorial Stadium to watch Leyton Orient play Bristol Rovers. Neither times did we venture into Bristol town...
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