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		<title>Battle of the Brewers 2</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2012/02/botb2.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2012/02/botb2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harviestoun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stewart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The theory sounded highly plausible. Whereas in the first Battle of the Brewers (between Stewart Brewing and Williams Bros Brewing) it was immediately evident which beer was produced by which company – this time, it wasn&#8217;t so obvious. Back in July, just a quick sip of each 5% summer ale was enough – that distinctive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;I&#8217;ve got hundreds of ideas&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2012/02/cromarty_bc.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2012/02/cromarty_bc.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cromarty Brewing Co]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It really is a great time for Scottish brewing at the moment, with new producers appearing left, right and centre &#8211; and also a long way north of the centre. Until now, the Black Isle was home to one very successful brewery, but the non-island (like Monster Island &#8211; it&#8217;s actually a peninsula) has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glassware grumbles</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/glassware-grumbles.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/glassware-grumbles.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, this article by Ben McFarland in the Guardian raised a thunderous outpouring of torrentious bile. Ben, the current BGBW Beer Writer of the Year, suggested &#8211; in an article I&#8217;m guessing was more than slightly tongue in cheek &#8211; that it was time to maybe, possibly, get rid of the nonic pint glass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lagerboy Speaks</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/lagerboy-speaks-27.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/lagerboy-speaks-27.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lagerboy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laverstoke Farm]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the days begin to finally lengthen, Lagerboy stirs from his sluggish hibernation – dreams of carbonation and CO2 prickle soon to give way to reality. Winter&#8217;s no fun for a fizzhound – it&#8217;s hard to laze by a roaring open fire with a Kölsch – so he tends to go to ground during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bow Bar&#8217;s Winter Beer Festival</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/bow-bar-festival-2012.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/bow-bar-festival-2012.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week sees the beginning of one of the more keenly anticipated ten-day periods in Edinburgh – the start of the Bow Bar&#8217;s annual winter beer festival. From Thursday the 26th the famed Aitken tall founts will be dispensing (via air-pressure) a range of specially invited cask ales, with several kegged beers also appearing. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BeerCast #67 &#8211; Beer of the Year 2011</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/boty-2011.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/boty-2011.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer of the Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BeerCasts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BeerCast #67 – BOTY 2011. So it comes down to this - our annual Beer of the Year Show. We re-taste the top four highest scoring beers from our podcasts in 2011, and pick a winner. On the panel today - Richard, Shovels, MrB and Grooben. Stand by for a bonus feature at the end, as we blind-taste four extremely unusual French beers - each containing a mystery ingredient. How many will the panel correctly identify?

1. Rogue St Rogue Red Ale (5.2%)
2. Kernel IPA Citra (7.2%)
3. Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest (6.7%)
4. Thornbridge St Petersburg (7.7%)


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		<title>Two from Lovibonds</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/two-from-lovibonds.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/two-from-lovibonds.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lovibonds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the start of the year we predicted big things for a few UK brewers in 2012. Some were experienced players looking to make the next step – others complete beginners starting out. The new boys aside, we&#8217;d already sampled plenty of beers from the other producers – so can feel fairly confident in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scotland on the brink of independence?</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/scotland-independence.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/scotland-independence.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What would Mel drink? Scotland is dominating the news agenda at the moment – so either the national team has just lost to San Marino, or it&#8217;s something to do with independence. The thorny I-word has appeared again, dragging itself onto the front pages like a mythical sea monster emerging from the Highlands. The SNP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breweries to watch out for in 2012&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/breweries-to-watch-2012.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/breweries-to-watch-2012.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we head into the New Year, the UK brewing scene seems to be in great shape. The economic climate might be as bad as a Scottish hurricane, and the Government seems intent on sticking it to everybody in the industry (with a few, notable, exceptions) – but this is a fantastic time to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The BeerCast&#8217;s Predictions for 2012</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/2012_predictions.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/2012_predictions.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeercast.com/?p=4067</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Predictions! Who would make &#8216;em? As a year ends with flurries of &#8216;best-of&#8217; lists, so traditionally the next begins with things to look out for. Harder to argue with – but easier to be wrong about – here are the BeerCast&#8217;s five bold/misguided predictions for 2012. Feel free to quote this article back to us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sheep Heid reopens&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/the-sheep-heid-reopens.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2012/01/the-sheep-heid-reopens.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeercast.com/?p=4056</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Edinburgh&#8217;s oldest pub &#8211; Duddingston&#8217;s Sheep Heid Inn &#8211; re-opened at the end of November following a re-branding and a change of management. Due to it&#8217;s location, the Sheep Heid was never really a beer destination &#8211; instead, it was very much the place to go for Sunday lunch or following an afternoon stroll through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Beer of the Year Preview</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/2011boty-preview.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/2011boty-preview.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer of the Year]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeercast.com/?p=4043</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As things wind down over Christmas, the attention at BeerCast HQ turns towards our annual Beer of the Year Show. We tally up the scores achieved by each ale podcasted over the last twelve months, and take the four highest scoring for a re-sample. Which beer will follow on from Odell Isolation Ale and become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BeerCast #66 &#8211; Christmas Special 2011</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/beercast-66-christmas-special-2011.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/beercast-66-christmas-special-2011.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BeerCasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anchor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cotleigh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[De Ranke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Het Anker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sinclair Orkney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Williams Bros]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BeerCast #66 – Christmas Special 2011. Our festive panel get to grips with six seasonal beers, as we tuck into the mince pies and toast by the fire our fifth annual Christmas Special. On the panel today – Richard, Shovels and Grooben. As tradition has it, we also rate each beer's label for festive factor. Merry Christmas to all of our podcast listeners, from all at the BeerCast!

1. Cotleigh Red Nose Reinbeer (5.0%)
2. Het Anker Gouden Carolus Christmas (10.5%)
3. Williams Brothers Nollaig (7.0%)
4. Sinclair Atlas Clootie Dumpling (4.3%)
5. De Ranke Père Noël (7.0%)
6. Anchor Our Special Ale 2011 (5.5%)

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		<title>Best new beers of 2011&#8230;the best of the rest</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-the-best-of-the-rest.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-the-best-of-the-rest.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer of the Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Isle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dark Star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fyne Ales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kernel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic Rock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meantime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RedWillow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tempest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thwaites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[List-making is par for the course at this time of year – which explains our recent flurry of posts detailing our favourite new British beers. The trouble with compiling lists, however, is that you can&#8217;t add everything (unless it&#8217;s one of those Channel 4 shows like &#8216;the best 100 children&#8217;s breakfast cereals&#8217;). Listing our six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best new beers of 2011&#8230;Summer Wine Cohort</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-summer-wine-cohort.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-summer-wine-cohort.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer of the Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer Wine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our final best new release of 2011 is a beer that appeared only a few weeks ago – from a small-scale brewery in Yorkshire. The Summer Wine Brewery have been going for about three years – but recently have firmly thrust themselves into the crosshairs of the bloggerati. All of their beers pack a punch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best new beers of 2011&#8230;RedWillow Fathomless</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-redwillow-fathomless.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-redwillow-fathomless.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer of the Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RedWillow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Only two more posts to come in our best new beers of the year feature – and for our penultimate gong we pay a visit to Macclesfield, and another producer who had a breakout year in 2011. Toby McKenzie&#8217;s RedWillow Brewery has set the blogs abuzz recently with some cracking beers – and a faithful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best new beers of 2011&#8230;Kernel IPA 100 Centennial</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-kernel-ipa-100-centennial.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-kernel-ipa-100-centennial.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer of the Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kernel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we brought you one of the breakout brewers of 2011 – Kelso&#8217;s Tempest Brewing. For the next of our best new beers of the year, we move on to the breakout brewer of 2010 (and possibly 2011 as well) – London&#8217;s finest; the Kernel Brewery. Evin O&#8217;Riordain and his team are capturing the attention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best new beers of 2011&#8230;Tempest RyePA</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-tempest-ryepa.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-tempest-ryepa.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer of the Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tempest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The halfway point of our best new British beers feature sees us in June, at the Scottish Real Ale Festival in Edinburgh. Last year, the SRAF introduced us to the wonderful Fyne Ales Jarl – hopes were high for a similar Eureka moment in 2011. As it happened, the very first beer to pass our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best new beers of 2011&#8230;Thornbridge Evenlode</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-thornbridge-evenlode.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-thornbridge-evenlode.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer of the Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thornbridge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we announced the first of our pick of the best British beers launched in 2011 – Sharp&#8217;s Monsieur Rock (5.2%). Today we bring you our second (these are roughly in order of release). A beer we tasted at FyneFest in early June &#8211; but not from Argyll&#8217;s champion brewer – it was merely a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best new beers of 2011&#8230;Sharp&#8217;s Monsieur Rock</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-sharps-monsieur-rock.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/best-new-beers-of-2011-sharps-monsieur-rock.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer of the Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If 2010 saw the release of some wonderful beers on both sides of the Atlantic, this year has been even more memorable. As the range of imported beer increases, British breweries have been defying the recession and the taxman, to produce some fantastic new beers. Over the next six days we’ll be highlighting our pick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2011 Golden Pint Awards</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/2011-gpa.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/2011-gpa.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s getting near to the end of the year, and putting Christmas and everything else to one side for a moment, awards and lists pop up pretty much everywhere. We&#8217;re never ones to miss a bandwagon here at the BeerCast, so here are our nominations for the 2011 Golden Pints &#8211; the UK Beer Blogger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Bud&#8217;s for&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/this-buds-for.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/this-buds-for.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AB InBev]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Please for the love of God don&#8217;t consume this filth.&#8221; &#8220;After taking a sip, my wife refused to kiss me.&#8221; &#8220;I needed Jager to cleanse my palate.&#8221; &#8220;Smells of tomato, pepper and asshole.&#8221; &#8220;There is absolutely no reason to drink this harsh, vile concoction of your own free will.&#8221; In the same category as paying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The UK&#8217;s best beer labels</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/the-uks-best-beer-labels.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/12/the-uks-best-beer-labels.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classic Beers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roughly two months ago, our transatlantic cousins at the Aleheads published this great post on the best beer labels in America. At the time, it crossed our mind to reciprocate – but we were in the depths of our big beer protest month and had other matters to pursue. Now – and on the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of&#8230;The City Arms, Manchester</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/in-praise-of-the-city-arms-manchester.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/in-praise-of-the-city-arms-manchester.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In praise of...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Landlord Steve (with arm in cast) outside the City Arms Manchester has no shortage of decent places in which to get a few pints – the Marble Arch is becoming renowned far and wide for its microbrewery, and the Port Street Beer House has a selection that guarantees pretty much anybody will find something to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vitus &#8211; Best Beer In The World?</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/vitus.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/vitus.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[German Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2011 World Beer Awards were announced the other week, via a communication from a secret location inside a Swiss mountain publisher&#8217;s office in Norwich. With all the SIBA goings-on we&#8217;ve gone a bit awards-crazy recently, but we usually cover the WBA&#8217;s. Last year we briefly touched on Stewart Hollyrood winning the best blonde/golden Pale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BeerCast #65 – Bières en vacances!</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/beercast-65.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/beercast-65.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BeerCasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brasserie des Râteliers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cervoiserie Lancelot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Le Moulin de Saint-Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mor Braz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BeerCast #65 - MrB had his annual trip to France over the summer, and as ever returned with a carload of booze. Some of this was rare beer from local brasseries, so our 65th BeerCast finds us drinking four very different French beers. It also sees the return of our 'Can you Picon it?' feature. On the panel today - Richard, Grooben and MrB. Apologies for the levels on this one, it was recorded in MrB's kitchen...

1. Brasserie des Râteliers La Johannique Blanche (5.0%) 
2. Cervoiserie Lancelot Bonnets Rouge (5.5%)
3. Le Moulin de Saint-Martin Ambrée (6.5%)
4. Mor Braz La Bière Cidrée (4.0%)

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		<title>2011 SIBA Scotland Bottled Beer Awards</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/2011-siba.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/2011-siba.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The SIBA Bottled Beer awards were judged and announced yesterday, and just like last year the BeerCast were there, taking part. In actual fact, last year&#8217;s competition also took place this year &#8211; the epic winter of 2010 meaning December&#8217;s judging had to be abandoned and moved to January, so our SIBA branded blue pencils [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The UK vs the US &#8211; the gravity gap</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/the-gravity-gap.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/the-gravity-gap.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our good buddies the Aleheads are never shy of an opinion or three, so when the duty rise kicked in at the start of October, I dispatched one of the Queen&#8217;s messengers to the colonies to get their reaction. Stateside brews are typically (although not always, of course) stronger and punchier than British beer, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the toon&#8230;on the twiss&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/in-the-toon-on-the-twiss.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/in-the-toon-on-the-twiss.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hardknott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Highland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nogne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panda & Frog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer Wine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyne Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yorkshire Dales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A blogging version of Where&#8217;s Wally? Beer bloggers tend to be a friendly bunch &#8211; and by and large get on well with each other (unless someone mentions sparklers, CAMRA, cask v keg, &#8216;black&#8217; IPA&#8217;s, or the Oxford Companion to Beer). As such, each year a large group descend on a beery city and attempt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Isle Brewery &#8211; scaling new heights?</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/black-isle-takeover.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/black-isle-takeover.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Isle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Red Kite, released into the wild (etc) For a brewery to make that next step, several things need to happen. Firstly, building on a solid base, to make the leap they clearly need a great brewer. Someone onboard who really knows their onions. From this, diversity is key – be consistent with the flagships, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minimum Pricing &#8211; drawing the battle lines&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/minimum-pricing-1.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/minimum-pricing-1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After October&#8217;s self-imposed month of strong beer – in protest at the UK Government&#8217;s raising of High Strength Beer Duty (HSBD) – I&#8217;ve been looking forward to a few legislation-free weeks here on the BeerCast. However, last week the incumbent SNP administration re-introduced a bill to the Scottish Parliament involving minimum pricing of alcohol – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SIBA Great Northern Beer Festival &#8211; Drinking</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/siba-great-northern-beer-festival-drinking.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/siba-great-northern-beer-festival-drinking.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beartown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bollington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bushys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concertina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirkstall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peerless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RedWillow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saddleworth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saltaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wincle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following the serious business of judging at last week&#8217;s SIBA Great Northern Beer Festival, the next visit was all about sampling the many beers on offer. Returning for a second day – the outside of the Mercure Piccadilly now sporting several identifying posters – I brought along my bitter-loving father to give him a taste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SIBA Great Northern Beer Festival &#8211; Judging</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/siba-great-northern-beer-festival-judging.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/siba-great-northern-beer-festival-judging.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Festivals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Judging at beer festivals is always a good day out – it&#8217;s a chance to meet new people and put your tastebuds to the test. It also makes you seem important,* and you get to eat unlimited amounts of Jacobs crackers. We rank beers all the time – either on our BeerCasts, on RateBeer or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of Big BeerCast month</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/bbe.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/11/bbe.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Duty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Support your local strong brewer&#8230;such as London&#8217;s Kernel So we reach the end of October, and our big beer month here at the BeerCast. For the last few weeks we&#8217;ve been featuring only beer over 7.5%, in protest at the Treasury raising High Strength Beer Duty (HSBD) on all beer above that abv. Since that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oxford Companion to Beer</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/the-oxford-companion-to-beer.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/the-oxford-companion-to-beer.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the official UK release date of the Oxford Companion to Beer, the latest in a long-running series of intended reference materials on subjects from Aboriginal Art to World Sports. As anyone who has searched for beer-related gifts knows, there&#8217;s no shortage of books out there – particularly if shopping online. Many are about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Northern Beer Festival Preview</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/gnbfpreview.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/gnbfpreview.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, Doctor, I have a previous engagement to attend We&#8217;re still in the midst of our strong beer protest month at the moment – but we&#8217;re going to waver very slightly for the next few paragraphs. This week sees the SIBA Great Northern Beer Festival take place in Manchester, and we&#8217;ll be there on Thursday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BeerCast #64 – Big BeerCast</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/beercast-64.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/beercast-64.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Duty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BeerCasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BrewDog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sinclair Orkney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thornbridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traquair House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BeerCast #64 – Big BeerCast. On the 1st of October 2011, the UK Treasury increased duty on all beer over 7.5%. Listen to this podcast to find out why that's a terrible idea, and might have serious implications for British brewing. We also sample four of the very best strong ales this country has to offer as we go, and manage to reveal the surprising history behind Bluetooth, why coffee is the new drug of choice, and how to find a greyhound on Orkney. The panel today – Richard, Grooben and Shovels.

1. Sinclair Orkney Skullsplitter (8.5%) 
2. Traquair House Jacobite Ale (8.0%)
3. Thornbridge St Petersburg (7.7%)
4. BrewDog Abstrakt AB:06 (11.2%)

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		<title>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be constrained&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/moorbeerco.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/moorbeerco.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Duty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moor Beer Co]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All this month we are featuring beer over 7.5% to highlight the madness of the UK Treasury increasing duty on beer over that alcohol by volume. It&#8217;s extremely frustrating for drinkers to have to pay more for our favourite products when the reasons for raising prices seem so contrived. But for British brewers, it&#8217;s far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RateBeer Roundup VI</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/ratebeer-roundup-vi.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/ratebeer-roundup-vi.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Duty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RateBeer Tastings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berghoeve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Sheep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flowerpots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Founders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fullers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haverhill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kernel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Glarus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Struise]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RateBeerians (and distant cousins the BeerAdvocaters) are, by nature, a committed bunch. Seeking out the rare and unusual, ticking their way through all and sundry, and spending huge amounts of money on their hobby along the way. Current RateBeer kings Ungstrup and fonefan are battling over supremacy, having totalled 22,251 and 22,200 beers sampled, respectively.* [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;We chase the big flavours&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/nogne-o.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/nogne-o.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Duty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nogne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if native English-speakers are fully able to pronounce Nøgne Ø. I usually go for Nog-Knee Oh, which sounds about right. Founded in Grimstad in 2002 – a place name that sounds as if trolls should live under the bridges – Nøgne Ø quickly became heralded across Europe for their beer. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should we call time on the session?</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/time-on-the-session.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/time-on-the-session.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Duty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you walked up to the bar of your favourite local – what would you see on offer? Hopefully a range of well-kept beers from near and far to tempt the money from your pocket. But if you were there for the whole evening, how many would you get through? Back in the day, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orkney Porter</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/orkney-porter.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/orkney-porter.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Duty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Highland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looking around for a suitable starting point for our month of strong beer, there was one obvious place to begin. Sitting in my mahogany panelled, climate controlled beer storage area – just behind the ironing board, watch out for the spider – was a 2009 vintage Highland Orkney Porter. Waiting for the right moment to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big BeerCast Month</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/big-beer-month.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/10/big-beer-month.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Duty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the 1st of December 2010, the UK Government published a Review of Alcohol Taxation [pdf], the stated aim of which was to address the consumption of cheap, “super-strength” lagers. By raising the duty on beer over a certain percentage – 7.5% &#8211; the Government hopes to make these drinks too expensive for problem drinkers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of&#8230;the Euston Tap</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/in-praise-of-the-euston-tap.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/in-praise-of-the-euston-tap.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In praise of...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anchor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kernel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hang on&#8230;that can&#8217;t be it, can it?&#8221; For the final London highlight this week, we follow on the heels of Tuesday&#8217;s post and explore another of the capital&#8217;s hot new hangouts – the Euston Tap. Located in an old doric arch near the main entrance of Euston station, it&#8217;s extremely easy to miss – as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Fields Brewery open for business</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/london-fields.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/london-fields.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Fields]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The packed open day a few days after my visit (photo courtesy Erica Wong) Throughout human history, every good idea there&#8217;s ever been has occurred in the pub. It&#8217;s no coincidence that as soon as the ancient Sumerians discovered brewing, they immediately invented the wheel (or something). The flowing of alcohol in a comfortable setting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leyton&#8217;s gem</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/leytons-gem.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/leytons-gem.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brodies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few hours after I enjoyed the fantastic Craft Beer Co (see yesterday&#8217;s post), I was across town in a very different establishment &#8211; but one that was just as good. An east London institution, the King William IV in Leyton is home to the prolific and slightly unhinged* Brodie&#8217;s Brewery. A short stroll from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of&#8230;The Craft Beer Co</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/in-praise-of-the-craft-beer-co.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/in-praise-of-the-craft-beer-co.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In praise of...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our previous post talked about the continuing rise of London as a top European drinking destination, but we really need to justify that with a few examples. So, each day this week, we&#8217;ll be featuring a new or outstanding (or both) location in the city. Somewhere that fits both of these categories is the Craft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London &#8211; the best drinking city in Europe?</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/london.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/london.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In praise of...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Look up &#8216;pub&#8217; in the dictionary &#8211; this is what you should see Thanks to the wonders of East Coast wi-fi, beer bloggers no longer have to wait until they get home to file copy on their ale adventures*. Having just spent two days wandering around London, enjoying the variety of pubs and visiting with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beer Triangle</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/the-beer-triangle.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/the-beer-triangle.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating with Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the hazy mists of time I can just about remember Chemistry lessons at school. In between lighting the gas taps and throwing nuggets of caesium into water (both despite warnings of dire consequences), something that dimly comes to mind is the Fire Triangle. Handy for the budding arsonist, it gives you the three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RateBeer Roundup V</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/ratebeer-roundup-v.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/ratebeer-roundup-v.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[RateBeer Tastings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3 Fonteinen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deschutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Epic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Full Sail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holgate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kernel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Glarus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O'Hanlons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pelican Brewing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pretty Things]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Oak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short's Brew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Nevada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SKA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Struise]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the latest RateBeer tasting coming only a few days after the end of the GBBF at Earl&#8217;s Court, it always threatened to be a big one. So it proved, as a combination of guest bloggers and GBBF-engorged suitcases resulted in twenty-five beers being drunk over the course of six hours. 25! Thankfully it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lagerboy Speaks</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/lagerboy-speaks-25.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/09/lagerboy-speaks-25.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lagerboy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Austell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lagerboy likes discovering new words – ideally on the side of a green bottle from which something fizzy has just been released. So imagine his textual joy when reading the back of the label from his latest conquest – St Austell Korev (4.8%) – he found another way to order everyone&#8217;s favourite beverage. Ko•rev (cor-eff) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100up for Kernel</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/100up-for-kernel.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/100up-for-kernel.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kernel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re unashamedly sentimental types here at the BeerCast, particularly when it comes to celebrating an anniversary*. Recently we managed to acquire a bottle of India Pale Ale 100 (10.1%) &#8211; the centenary release from London&#8217;s Kernel brewery. Since appearing on the beer scene in early 2010 (has it really only been that long?), Evin O&#8217;Riordain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Isle/Tim Anderson Red Hot Chilli Bock</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/bitarhcb.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/bitarhcb.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Isle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Long name, long story. For those of you outwith the range of the culinary-tentacled beast that is BBC&#8217;s MasterChef, it&#8217;s essentially the X-Factor of cooking. There are several series, staged concurrently so they never overlap – one for celebrities, one for young chefs, and one for Joe Public. The most recent series was the latter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ultimate carry-out?</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/the-ultimate-carry-out.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/the-ultimate-carry-out.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Festivals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blogger, RateBeer legend and all-round philanthropist Craig Garvie recently returned from a short break to London. The above photo is what he picked up. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s in the carrier bag on the top step &#8211; maybe a packet of crisps or something&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>BeerCast #63 &#8211; Mmmm&#8230;beer</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/beercast63.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/beercast63.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BeerCasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic Rock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mallinsons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marble]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BeerCast #63 – Mmmm…beer. Returning from our summer pod-break, we assemble a thirsty panel and tackle four beers from breweries beginning with the letter M (tenuous link, admittedly). If that wasn't all, the beers all come from within twenty miles of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire – so very much a local tasting…if that's your neck of the woods. On the panel today – Richard, Stuart, MrB and Grooben. Richard would like to take this opportunity to apologise to MrB's mother… 

1. Mallinsons Danger: Hops! (5.1%) 
2. Magic Rock High Wire (5.5%)
3. Marble Chocolate Marble (5.5%)
4. Magic Rock Cannonball (7.4%)

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		<title>Utopian dream</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/utopian-dream.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/utopian-dream.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Beer Company]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just over a year ago a certain Scottish brewer released the final iteration of what had become an inevitable, and somewhat tiresome, brewing arms race. The desire to produce stronger and stronger beer served to garner a lot of publicity for BrewDog (and erstwhile rivals Schorschbräu), and was all pretty predictable. Like a beery equivalent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grrr&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/grrr.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/grrr.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BrewDog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BrewDog certainly like to blow their own trumpet &#8211; my goodness do they ever &#8211; but if you can filter out the punk-nonsense they have a number of interesting ideas. Having one eye keenly focused over the Atlantic at all times (understandable given the styles of beer they create), they have latched on to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Luckie&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/get-luckie.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/get-luckie.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luckie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years Scotland has developed a thriving microbrewing scene, as more and more brave souls take the plunge into something greater than homebrew. Back in 2008 Stuart McLuckie first offered up his wares to the public, from a small plant in deepest Fife. Luckie Ales may be relatively new on the scene [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citrus isn&#8217;t the only fruit&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/ipada.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/ipada.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is #IPADay – a hash-tag friendly Twitter campaign to pull people into drinking decent beer, and away from macrolager, Pimms, battery acid, water etc etc. Educating the masses is one of the great goals of the American craft beer industry, fighting through a tide of Bud Light. Similarly, over here the real ale brewers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of an era</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/end-of-an-era.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/08/end-of-an-era.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This rather sorry-looking building represents the end of an era for Edinburgh. The old McEwans Fountain brewery is almost gone, down to the splintered remains (plus the strangely resilient chimney). It used to look like this &#8211; the huge brewery and bottling plant resembling a small power station. One of Edinburgh&#8217;s elder statesmen founded the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle of the Brewers</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/battle-of-the-brewers.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/battle-of-the-brewers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Williams Bros]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a phrase, &#8216;Battle of the Brewers&#8217; conjures images of notable beer producers charging around the course of Total Wipeout, while beer bloggers aim jets of Pale Ale at them, and poke them with mashing forks. Whilst that would liven up any Saturday night schedule, in reality any conflict between brewers usually takes place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laško Dark</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/lasko-dark.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/lasko-dark.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pivovarna Laško]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re well into the midst of the UK holiday season now (to our American friends, this means the time of year when us Brits escape the rain, not open presents). As such, no self-respecting beer website would be without a post regarding a strangely-titled Eurolager that whilst we&#8217;d never consider buying over here, put us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finch</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/finch.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/finch.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Selection Brewing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week we previewed the launch of Natural Selection Brewing&#8217;s debut beer &#8211; Finch, a 6.5% &#8216;robust red ale&#8217;. Four students of Heriot Watt&#8217;s Brewing and Distilling postgrad course have come together to design, produce and market their own beer – from scratch – using the pilot plant at the Uni, and then the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thwaites Old Dan</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/thwaites-old-dan.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/thwaites-old-dan.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thwaites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blackburn&#8217;s Thwaites Brewery have been upping the ante recently, announcing a few new interesting beers to their core bottled range. We&#8217;re all huge fans of everything Lancashire here on the BeerCast – apart from Shovels of course, as he hails from the wrong side of the Pennines. However, even he forced Thwaites Double Century through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From classroom to brewhouse&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/natural-selection-brewing.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/natural-selection-brewing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Selection Brewing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(left to right) Damon Scott, Steven Kersley, Kevin Emms and Colin Lymer It may not be the most obvious career path for a beer blogger*, but in my distant and murky past lies a Masters Degree in Marine Biology. For my final year project, I was tasked with evaluating pollution recovery in the Humber Estuary. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPA night at BrewDog</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/ipa-night-at-brewdog.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/ipa-night-at-brewdog.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[8 Wired]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BrewDog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evil Twin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikkeller]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BrewDog made something of the splash yesterday, as they released the second slice of equity for prospective investors. Seeking to raise £2.2m to finance a new, carbon-neutral, brewery &#8211; there was certainly plenty of interest, if the Twitter flood was anything to go by. Kenny over at the Beer Monkey posted his thoughts on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lagerboy Speaks</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/lagerboy-speaks-26.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/lagerboy-speaks-26.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lagerboy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikkeller]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Lagerboy&#8217;s station in life to chug his way through waves of yellow fizz – indeed, that&#8217;s what he thrives on. But just because he restricts himself to the see-though end of the spectrum doesn’t mean he has to sacrifice quality. Lager – that glorious process that results in cleaner, crisper beer – need not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All change at Haymarket</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/all-change-at-haymarket.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/all-change-at-haymarket.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Edinburgh&#8217;s other railway station – the one used by local residents rather than Waverley&#8217;s taxi-seeking tourists – sits on a large and confusing junction at Haymarket, in the west end of the city centre. Perched on that junction is the rounded façade of the Haymarket Bar, staring back at the station of the same name. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons to be Cheerful&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/reasons-to-be-cheerful.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/07/reasons-to-be-cheerful.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having just enjoyed our annual sunny weekend here in Scotland, the mood has definitely improved as a result. Being beery optimists, our branded glassware is always half full &#8211; but even the dourest of drinkers wouldn&#8217;t begrudge us a quick roundup of things to smile about this July. Forget the upcoming duty rise and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classic Beer I &#8211; Fullers ESB</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/classic-beer-i-fullers-esb.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/classic-beer-i-fullers-esb.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classic Beers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fullers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here at the BeerCast we&#8217;re always on the lookout for new and interesting things, partly to keep the readership happy – and partly to appease our flirtatious tastebuds. CAMRA Chair Colin Valentine recently criticised bloggers for having such an outlook – and it got us thinking. Maybe we are guilty of bypassing the timeless to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RateBeer Roundup IV</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/ratebeer-roundup-iv.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/ratebeer-roundup-iv.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[RateBeer Tastings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cigar City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[De Molen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fullers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kentucky Ale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kernel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost Abbey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikkeller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oskar Blues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samuel Adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uinta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ægir Bryggeri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever had nineteen beers in one night? How did you feel the next morning? Probably about as chirpy as I was the day after our latest RateBeer tasting at Craig Garvie’s. The Scottish king of the Tickers, every month or so Craig gathers people together at his house for an onslaught of outstanding beer. Thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BeerCast #62 &#8211; Hardknott Showcase</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/beercast-62.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/beercast-62.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BeerCasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brewery Showcase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hardknott]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BeerCast #62 – Hardknott Showcase. Cumbria’s Hardknott Brewery are the latest to feature in a BeerCast Showcase – during a recent trip to London we found four of their beers at Borough Market’s UtoBeer. Founded by publican Dave Bailey in 2005, the distinctive and interesting beers have hit a cord with British bloggers. Our panel of Richard, Shovels and Blair get to grips with them, along with a number of other subjects…

1. Hardknott Dark Energy (4.9%)
2. Hardknott Infra Red (6.5%)
3. Hardknott Queboid (8.0%)
4. Hardknott Granite 2009 (10.4%)

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		<title>SRAF 2011 post-mortem</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/sraf2011.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/sraf2011.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Real Ale Festival is done for another year, and once again it generated a fair bit of debate. In fact, 2011 seems to have been one of the more contentious SRAF&#8217;s of recent years. You may have noticed our daily posts didn&#8217;t make it into the final day (Saturday) &#8211; an official tweet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Real Ale Festival &#8211; Day Two</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/sraf11-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/sraf11-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BrewDog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost Abbey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Day three, really &#8211; having been at the Trade Session on the Wednesday &#8211; but the second day of the SRAF is always the busy one, occurring on a Friday. And so it proved, as we turned up to Adam House* to find an enormous queue stretching round the block. Having piled our way through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Real Ale Festival &#8211; Day One</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/sraf-1.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/sraf-1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burnside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Devon Ales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Highland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillside/Deeside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luckie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tinpot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After yesterday&#8217;s Trade Session the Scottish Real Ale Festival kicked off today with the judging for the 2011 Champion Beer of Scotland. After last year&#8217;s win for Highland Orkney Blast it was a question of if Rob Hill could carry on with his brewery&#8217;s dominance of the CBoS title, having won three of the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Real Ale Festival &#8211; Trade Session</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/sraf-trade.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/sraf-trade.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belhaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burnside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tempest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Real Ale Festival begins in earnest tomorrow at noon, but the preview night trade session took place today at Adam House in Edinburgh. Thanks to organiser Owen, the BeerCast secured an invite, and we arrived just in time to witness the award session for the 2011 SIBA Awards. Nine different breweries took home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fyne Ales festival 2011</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/fyne-ales-festival-2011.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/fyne-ales-festival-2011.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fyne Ales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hawkshead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thornbridge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Beer festivals needn&#8217;t always take place in musty town halls on the local high street. Rather than bringing the beer to the punters, some brewers make the drinkers do the legwork. Argyll&#8217;s Fyne Ales are based on a farm at the head of Loch Fyne, and when you have surroundings like that it makes sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Real Ale Festival 2011 Lineup</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/sraf2011-lineup.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/sraf2011-lineup.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Festivals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re well into beer festival season at the moment, and next week all attention north of the border will turn to the big one – the Scottish Real Ale Festival, held every year in Edinburgh. This year it will be held at Adam House on Chambers Street between the 16th and the 18th of June. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Isle Organic Pairing</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/black-isle-organic-pairing.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/black-isle-organic-pairing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating with Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Isle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For as long as anyone can remember, the drink of choice when eating out has been wine (with optional jug of tap water). Pairing food with wine is seen as the natural option – even the bargain boozer knows the ‘white with fish, red with meat’ rule. But slowly, things are changing. The idea of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 302</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/the-302.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/06/the-302.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 07:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housekeeping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For one week only we're going to set up a temporary redirect (known as a 302 redirect in internet parlance) of thebeercast.com/feed to our new feedburner podcast-only feed. This means that those of you who are subscribed to the /feed address for the posts will be a bit put out for a week - sorry, but once we've decanted all our podcats listeners to the new feed address i'll remove the redirect and your RSS readers will start to fill up again with learned, more insightful, better written and more interesting posts than this one.]]></description>
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		<title>BrewDog Avery Brown Dredge</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/brewdog-avery-brown-dredge.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/brewdog-avery-brown-dredge.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 10:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BrewDog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewing a beer brewed by other beer writers is a new one for us here on the BeerCast – and something of a minefield too. Not that we’re putting ourselves in the category of the three chaps responsible for BrewDog’s Avery Brown Dredge (7.5%) &#8211; the multi award-winning trio have the pageviews and Wikio rankings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you go Mild in May?</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/mild_may.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/mild_may.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 10:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kernel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Redemption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re rapidly approaching the end of May – which draws to a close the only month on the British beer calendar with a designated style. CAMRA have a stated aim to protect traditional varieties of beer – one of the most threatened of which is currently the humble Mild. To publicise the risk this beer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BeerCast #61 &#8211; Beer of Yesteryear</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/beercast-61-beer-of-yesteryear.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/beercast-61-beer-of-yesteryear.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 21:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BeerCasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daleside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dogfish Head]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thornbridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Williams Bros]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BeerCast #61 – Beer of Yesteryear. As modern brewers seek to experiment, historic styles of ale are definitely making a comeback. Inspired by an article in the Guardian newspaper written by blogger Mark Dredge, today we sample four archaic old-fashioned ales. Moving from Elizabethan times to ancient Turkey (Bill&#038;Ted style), we also make a stop in Celtic Britain, and pay a visit to the Vikings. Stepping into the time-travelling phone box are Richard, Shovels, and BeerCast debutant Blair. Think of a number dude!

1. Daleside Morocco Ale (5.5%) 
2. Dogfish Head Midas Touch (9.0%)
3. Heather Ales Alba (7.5%)
4. Thornbridge Bracia (10.0%)

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		<title>Knops IPA unveiled in Smackdown</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/knops-ipa-unveiled-in-smackdown.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/knops-ipa-unveiled-in-smackdown.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 16:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knops Beer Company]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeercast.com/?p=3129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night Edinburgh’s local gypsy brewer Robert Knops unveiled the first bottles of his newest beer – Knops IPA – in a WWE style head to head contest against three flash opponents from the USA. The Smackdown pitted each of his bottled offerings with a similar (as much as possible) beer from across the pond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oui Monsieur</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/oui-monsieur.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/oui-monsieur.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 14:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some things take their time to filter up to Scotland, particularly if they hail from the other end of the country. A couple of months ago, bloggers were in rapture about a collaboration beer brewed in Cornwall – Sharp’s Monsieur Rock (5.2%). Leigh from the Good Stuff: &#8220;Quite unlike anything I’ve drunk before&#8221;; Dave from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stone takeover BrewDog Bar</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/stone-takeover-brewdog-bar.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/stone-takeover-brewdog-bar.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 17:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BrewDog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BrewDog pride themselves on their rock n&#8217;roll attitude, but last night their Edinburgh bar really got a blast of energy in the shape of the Californian whirlwind Greg Koch. The co-founder and CEO of Stone Brewing Co was in town as the BrewDog Bar turned over their entire tap lines, for one night only. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Squirrel Edinburgh opens</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/red-squirrel-edinburgh-opens.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/red-squirrel-edinburgh-opens.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 13:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Edinburgh’s Lothian Road has seen a fair bit of shuffling over recent months, as new arrivals try to pull the reputation of the street upwards. One of the busiest thoroughfares in the city, the clubs, strip clubs and ‘saunas’ – plus the heavy traffic and occasional roadworks – give it something of a dodgy reputation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Moulin Inn</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/the-moulin-inn.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/05/the-moulin-inn.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 12:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moulin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The unseasonal weather has continued for Scotland recently, with temperatures soaring into the high teens from the wall to wall sunshine. As a result, a trip to the beautiful interior of the country was called for, and a visit to Perthshire. Stunning scenery, old castles, red squirrels (apparently, although they may as well not exist) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcohol free Hoegaarden?</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/alcohol-free-hoegaarden.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/alcohol-free-hoegaarden.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belgian Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoegaarden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brewing behemoth AB-InBev have been in the news a fair bit recently &#8211; probably understandable given they control 25% of the world&#8217;s beer (in terms of market share). At the end of last month they purchased Goose Island for a shade under $39m, dipping a gold-encrusted toe in the formerly unsullied craft beer waters. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BeerCast #60 &#8211; Purity Showcase</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/beercast-60.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/beercast-60.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BeerCasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kernel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BeerCast #60 – Purity Showcase. The award-winning Purity Brewing Company from Warwickshire sent us some review samples for a podcast – so we turn the airwaves over to another Brewery Showcase. As they make only three beers (which is fairly unusual for a modern producer these days), we throw in a bonus fourth beer from London’s Kernel Brewery – their monumental Imperial Stout. On the panel today – Richard, Grooben and Shovels. Big thanks to Kirsten at Purity for sending the review samples through!

1. Purity Pure Gold (4.3%) 
2. Purity Mad Goose (4.2%)
3. Purity Pure UBU (4.5%)
4. Kernel Imperial Stout (12.5%)

www.puritybrewing.com

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		<title>Here comes the sun&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/here-comes-the-sun.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/here-comes-the-sun.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scottish Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Isle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BrewDog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cairngorm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fyne Ales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harviestoun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillside/Deeside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inveralmond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strathaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tryst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Williams Bros]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The arrival of tailbacks on the roads and wasps in the parks can mean only one thing – Spring is here. After enduring months of snow, sleet, winds and haar (something we say every year, only this time it actually happened) the weather is taking a turn for the better. Here in Scotland that means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RateBeer Roundup III</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/ratebeer-roundup-iii.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/ratebeer-roundup-iii.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[RateBeer Tastings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firestone Walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kernel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuhnhenn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikkeller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nogne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rockyard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weyerbacher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another month, another colossal tick-taste at RateBeer king Craig Garvie&#8217;s. Every few weeks Craig assembles a list of beers that would have any self-respecting beer fan salivating with anticipation, and as many people as possible turn up to share the goodies. As with the others (which you can read about here), I headed down with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meantime, in sunny Greenwich&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/meantime-in-sunny-greenwich.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/meantime-in-sunny-greenwich.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meantime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had a bit of downtime on the BeerCast over the last week, as I&#8217;ve been in sunny London on a short break. Of course, while I was there I managed to fit in a spot of beery tourism alongside the more traditional kind – nowadays there&#8217;s no shortage of places to visit. The brewing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anchor Humming Ale</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/anchor-humming-ale.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/anchor-humming-ale.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anchor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco has been one of the major beneficiaries of the modern American brewing revival, with a new reputation for being a beer-drinker’s destination. The resurgence of the Anchor Brewery has played a key role in this. Having been established to slake the collective thirsts of miners during the Gold Rush, Anchor dwindled in popularity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make&#8230;Bottle Cap Magnets</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/how-to-makebottle-cap-magnets.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/04/how-to-makebottle-cap-magnets.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeercast.com/?p=2807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re the kind of thirsty person who accumulates a large number of beer bottle caps, but tends to throw them away &#8211; stop! A rewarding and (in parts) fun activity can be had, by turning the caps into fridge magnets. These can then be used in a decorative fashion, or to clip notes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is having an opinion &#8216;noisome&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/03/is-having-an-opinion-noisome.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/03/is-having-an-opinion-noisome.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Protz – beer writer and editor of the Good Beer Guide – isn’t short of an opinion or two, which he frequently displays in his monthly column in What’s Brewing?. When I read his latest column in the April edition of CAMRA’s newspaper I had to suppress more than a chuckle at his closing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BeerCast #59 &#8211; IPA is Dead</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/03/beercast-59.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/03/beercast-59.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BeerCasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brewery Showcase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BrewDog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kernel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BeerCast #59 – IPA is Dead. Last month Fraserburgh's BrewDog released a series of four India Pale Ales to showcase the wonderful versatility of hops. Our panel sample each of the 7.5% beers - the only difference between them being the variety of hop used - and discuss whether is really means the end for IPA, or just another beginning. To test things a bit further, we throw in another singe hop IPA for good measure - well, why not? On the panel today - Richard, Shovels, Grooben and Stu. Stand by for big scores, big discussions, and the best way of cleaning a lion’s cage…

1. BrewDog IPA is Dead Bramling X (7.5%)
2. BrewDog IPA is Dead Nelson Sauvin (7.5%)
3. BrewDog IPA is Dead Sorachi Ace (7.5%)
4. BrewDog IPA is Dead Citra (7.5%)
5. Kernel IPA Citra (7.2%)

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		<title>Mikkeller vs Kernel – coffee IPA battle</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/03/mikkeller-vs-kernel-%e2%80%93-coffee-ipa-battle.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/03/mikkeller-vs-kernel-%e2%80%93-coffee-ipa-battle.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kernel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikkeller]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mikkeller Koppi not pictured&#8230; One of the inevitable consequences of pushing the limits of conventional brewing is the blurring of boundaries. Styles are merged, blended or just ignored completely. New ingredients arrive by the dozen, are integrated into a dozen more different beers, and then potentially endless varieties of hops, malt and strains of yeast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer duty to rise 7.5%</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/03/beer-duty-to-rise-75.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/03/beer-duty-to-rise-75.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer Duty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How much will these cost in September? In today’s budget the Chancellor George Osborne announced that beer duty would rise in line with the controversial alcohol duty escalator. &#8220;I have no further changes to those measures put in place by the previous government,&#8221; he said – retaining the escalator introduced by the previous administration. Roughly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lagerboy Speaks</title>
		<link>http://thebeercast.com/2011/03/lagerboy-speaks-24.html</link>
		<comments>http://thebeercast.com/2011/03/lagerboy-speaks-24.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lagerboy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thornbridge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lagerboy hasn&#8217;t had a runout for a while &#8211; he tends to spend the winter months hibernating to avoid the plethora of dark beers that appear once the days begin to lengthen. But seeing as the sun has started to peak out from behind the sleety Edinburgh clouds, he set out on a mission to [...]]]></description>
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