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Archive for April, 2010

Drunk by noon

Great title. Great cover. Check out her web site (though I cannot see any beer there!)

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I first saw James Watt just a few months after they had started BrewDog. They brought along some unlabeled bottles to a ratebeer gathering in Glasgow, and, thanks to their present London sales rep Tom, they had some of their beers on cask at the Blackfriars for the event.  The rest is, of course, history. [...]

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Beer or chocolate?

Or both?

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Arriving in Norway next week: Southern Tier   IPA, Gemini Captain Lawrence  Captain’s Reserve Imperial IPA Jolly Pumpkin  Bam Biere, Bam Noire, La Roja, Oro de Calabaza The Bruery  Saison de Lente Lost Abbey  Angels’ Share Ale Smith  Horney Devil, Yule Smith Shortly arriving from Italy: Birrificio Italiano Bik Bok, Amber shok, Cassissona, Vudu

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During the week of the Copenhagen Beer Festival, which is also the opening week of the Mikkeller beer bar, Mikkel will release 25 new beers. I hope some of them will be in small bottles suitable for suitcases!

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According to beerticker.dk, there will be seven new beers from Hornbeer at the Copenhagen Beer Festival. I am particularly looking forward to their Biting Horse, a Flemish Red Ale. I should have planned for three days at the festival instead of two…

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Unfortunate events led to a visit to Trondheim earlier this week, which meant a 1000 kilometer drive. I managed, however, to find a little time to pop in at Den Gode Nabo, by far the best beer pub in that part of the country. Located in one of the old riverside warehouses, it seems to [...]

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New dog in town

Who would have thought, just a year or two ago, that we would have a BrewDog beer on Norwegian supermarket shelves? Specially brewed for Norway? And I’m not talking about any exclusive shop with deli and manned fish and cheese departments, but you basic no frills discount chain. I think their Scandinavian importer has done [...]

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It is very encouraging to see that the same spirit of cooperation and community I have observed amoung the beer geeks also to a large extent applies to the craft brewers. I don’t follow the North American scene enough to give any intelligent observations, but here in Northern Europe there are new projects all the time. The [...]

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Lunch, Bruges style

And a beer, please!

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