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| Review type | Review | Website | Rating | Date created |
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| What is the best Scottish beer available south of the border? | 23/08/08 | |||
| blog | Bad Pub Practice | Melissa Cole's blog | 0 | 08/08/08 |
| pub | The Vine Inn, St Helens, Isle of Wight | 0 | 08/08/08 | |
| pub | Crab and Lobster Inn, Bembridge, Isle of Wight | Crab and Lobster Inn | 0 | 08/08/08 |
| pub | The Fat Cat Bar, Freshwater, Isle of Wight | 0 | 05/08/08 |
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How beer is made in one paragraph
Tue, 11/03/2008 - 22:38 — DMBarley is encouraged to begin germination to convert its starchy energy store into sugars ready for use. The barley is then ground up and steeped in hot water to extract the sugars.&nbs
Drinking for girls
Fri, 08/08/2008 - 17:16 — DMThere have been a few articles about beer recently in the media about beer drinking for women;
Not going to the Great British Beer Festival
Tue, 05/08/2008 - 14:39 — DMI have the opportunity to go to the GBBFi this year again but I've decided not to. For the last two years I've organised a works corporate entertainment day on the Thursday of the festiv
Can anyone find a more pathetic branding of a beer as "IPA"?
Fri, 18/07/2008 - 20:27 — DMLondon Pale Ale
Fri, 18/07/2008 - 07:08 — DMMeantime
This beer has the American Cascade hop taste that I really love in spades. Very much like an American pale ale (Sierra Nevada Pale Alei, Brooklyn Pale Ale etc.) in that it has loads of h
The Vine Inn, St Helens, Isle of Wight
Fri, 08/08/2008 - 16:51 — DMAn unpretentious pub just across from the village green making it a nice place to sup a pint on a hot day. Limited drinking space outside. Clearly a local pub with bands on
The Fat Cat Bar, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
Tue, 05/08/2008 - 14:23 — DMA lovely pub for summer drinking. Two real ales on tap & both ones I hadn't tried before; Everards Hazy Daze was lovely - very much like a German weissebeer - hazy, with a ta
Sainsbury's to sell more premium beers
Fri, 18/07/2008 - 07:29 — DMTalking Retail have a story on their website that Sainsbury's have looked at 100 different premium beers and will choose 15 to go into their stores in August 2008. This can only be good
Blonde
Wed, 16/07/2008 - 14:47 — Mark_the_brewerBad Pub Practice
Fri, 08/08/2008 - 17:30 — DMThis article brilliantly describes my thoughts on pubs offering discounts on flavoured alcoholic drinks (sometimes beer flavoured). Blackpool was the first place to discourage drinks pr
Crab and Lobster Inn, Bembridge, Isle of Wight
Fri, 08/08/2008 - 16:41 — DMA nice enough pub with 3 real ales on, 2 from the local Goddard's Brewery. I had a Fuggle-Dee-Dum from Goddards and it was lovely. A scorcher of a day and walking around the
Vale of Clwyd Beer Festival
Thu, 24/07/2008 - 09:57 — DMThis is such a brilliant idea that it deserves reporting. Seven pubs in Northi Wales got together and had a beer festival on Saturday 19th July 2008 with a bus running between them until
High & Mighty
Fri, 18/07/2008 - 07:19 — DMRidgeway
Although the name and label of the beer sets high standards - "High & Mighty Beer of the Gods" - it lives up to them. Very much like a delicate pilsner but brewed in an al
Indiana Pale Ale
Wed, 16/07/2008 - 14:34 — Mark_the_brewerAllgates
If I'd bought this at a beer festival, it would have reinforced all those prejudices that people have about us and the beer we drink. Tastes like mushy peas. And not in a good way. 
