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Coffee beers for UK Coffee Week

Coffee beers for UK Coffee Week

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Apr 11, 2014
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This week, amongst other things, is UK Coffee Week. Running until Sunday, it’s a celebration of all things jitterbean-related, and acts as a platform for Project Waterfall – a scheme, run in partnership with Water Aid, which aims to bring clean drinking water to some of the poorest coffee-growing regions of Africa. I only started […]

The best IPA in Britain

The best IPA in Britain

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Apr 23, 2013
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This is, in truth, a post I’ve wanted to write for a long while. A list – my list – of the best IPA’s in Britain. The problem is, every time I sit down and riffle through the selection of names, there are more to consider. Another one arrives seemingly every week. The demand for […]

The hottest ticket in town

The hottest ticket in town

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Mar 27, 2013
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At the end of last month I droned on at some length on the subject of Meet the Brewer events – one of the very best ways for beer-makers to build interest in their products. There was a time when these sorts of evenings were rapid, shouty affairs as the brewer wobbled on the bartop […]

Best new beers of 2012…the best of the rest

Best new beers of 2012…the best of the rest

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Dec 17, 2012
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Last week, we turned the BeerCast over to the newcomers – the six best new British beers of 2012. Of course, with twelve months of full-on beer drinking under our (gradually expanding) belts, there were plenty more that could have made the list. As we move into the final blog-posting week before Christmas, it’s time […]

Edinburgh Bar Launch – The Southern

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Apr 17, 2012
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Exciting times for Edinburgh beer drinkers this week as we see the opening of the Southern, the new bar from Fuller Thomson, owners of BeerCast favourites Holyrood 9A and Red Squirrel. Head BeerCaster and all-round Renaissance man Richard is away in Berlin this week, but colleagues Grooben and Shovels stepped into the breach to sample […]

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