Jun
24
2010
Myself and the Mrs went to the Maltsters in Llandaff last week.
It’s one of the Cardiff brewery Brains, modern pubs which they have changed a lot over the last year from the no nonsense pub I remember from my youth (ok 20s) to…
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Jun
23
2010
Longest tennis match ever at Wimbledon halted at 59-59 in fifth set because of bad light (don’t they have a roof now) –
the players Mahut and Isner will be back tomorrow to carry on in the meantime watch the replay of the match…
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Jun
22
2010
Camra have launched a great book about Real Heritage Pubs in Wales.
I went along to one of my favourite Cardiff City pub (after the Goat Major), The Old arcade on monday, thanks to Brains for the lovely half of dark and the snacks…
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Jun
21
2010

photo credit: gerryahern
From various places
The healthy properties of beer when consumed in moderation are not well understood, according to a new report.
The drink is a rich source of vitamins, fibre, minerals and antioxidants and…
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Jun
17
2010
I have a few of these books and they are all great..
Big Hint, Iam a dad and I like beer, so would expect some of these books, but my son always thinks out of the shed and gets me something odd, which is…
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Jun
17
2010
The other week I joined the beer twitters & bloggers behind the wonderful beer swap (still need to write up my beers for swap II, oops) in their new beer related celebration, to coincide with the world cup.
You get allocated a world cup…
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Jun
11
2010
Well done to the Otley team they were happy yesterday, and today after the announcement at the Great British Beer Festival that their Brew O-Garden has won best cask ale in Wales.
Its a great wheat beer with similar tones to a certain Belgium…
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Jun
10
2010
Had a great time today – here are some photos.
view the rest over at this linky
the reason I say in colour sort of is due to the harsh light in the CIA, of course a bad workman always blames his tools:)
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Jun
10
2010
I was kindly asked by arfurD to help judge the best cider at this years festival.
There was some wonderful ones and sometimes wish we had more time.. but the overall champion was …you will have to wait as we were just regional monkeys.…
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Jun
5
2010
After last years festival I hope to fit in some time this week to go, probably from Thursday Lunchtime (half day off work anyone?) and a half on the Saturday as Iam doing the photomarathon with my Son, and hope to get some more…
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