Jun 17 2010

The best Beer books for Fathers day

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 nice,…

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Jun 17 2010

The Greece national football team, Mythos beer and World Cup Beer Sweepstake

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 team…

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Jun 15 2010

Now this is the best England World Cup Song ever : Frank Sidebottom sings Three Shirts on my Line

I won’t be mentioning the world cup much on this blog, you can go elsewhere for that.. but an old hero of mine, Frank Sidebottom who was diagnosed with cancer recently has released a single (is that what they kids call them) for the South…

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Jun 11 2010

Best cask beer in Wales is Otley O-Garden

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 beer.…

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Jun 10 2010

Great Welsh Beer & Cider festival 2010 – in colour sort of

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

Judging Cider at the Great Welsh Beer & Cider festival – someones got to do it

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 8 2010

UK Gardeners : Have you tried growing your own Saffron?

Had an email from dobies saying they are selling Saffron Crocus bulbs, I use a bit of saffron, do you think its worth getting as there will nice flowers during the late summer.

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Harvest your own ‘Red Gold’ !!!!
Saffron…

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Jun 5 2010

The great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival 2010 Cardiff June 10th to June 12th – you going?

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 purple…

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Jun 5 2010

Rodenbach Vintage 2007 for £59! and other hits in my logs

I got a bottle of Rodenbach Vintage 2007 beer last Christmas from Rob, still not opened it… maybe next year!
But the last few days I have seen quite a few people finding my post when they search for Rodenbach Vintage via Google but doing…

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Jun 2 2010

It’s ok its alcholic but not a beer- Twisted Ice Tea – like tea but with a hit

I saw this in my UK local supermarket the other week so picked up a few bottles, and had another one this evening its a great thirst quencher and I only had the “Original flavor” but in the states they apparently do lots.

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