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Zythos Beer Festival 2014 – lift-off!
Summary: Zythos Beer Festival 2014 [ZBF], Leuven, Belgium, is back and will be even better than last year’s. “Our bags are packed and we’re ready to go …” ...
On April 20, 2014 / By Mark S-M
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Leading beers of 2013: A swashbuckling quintet
Summary: A batch of 5 big beers [yes, BIG] from Belgium, the UK and US. They occupy places 20 to 16 in the reviews of my best beers ...
On April 4, 2014 / By Mark S-M
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Of Klingon Warnog, sake and offal
This week’s virtual press-cutting floor is the right mish mash I foresee it will be most weeks. [1] Thanks to Steve Savino for posting a couple of these stories on ...
On March 30, 2014 / By Mark S-M
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Beertown – Full flavoured beers cause shock in North Yorks!
Summary: Beertown, Malton 2014. You must go in 2015! Thomas Jefferson once said “All men are created equal”. With the Declaration of Independence buzzing around his mind ...
On March 28, 2014 / By Mark S-M
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Extreme Beers – a new niche
“ … this beer is good, but … nothing special …. Not really extreme …”. Not EXTREME? When did that become a defining characteristic of fine tasting beer? Bizarre ...
On March 11, 2014 / By Mark S-M
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Recommended beers of 2013: The next five beauties
Summary: Reviews and tasting notes of 5 more superb beers that feature in my recommended beers of 2013. Numbers 25-21 come from the UK, Holland, the US and Belgium and there’s ...
On March 10, 2014 / By Mark S-M