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Beer Advent Calendar: The King of blissful drinking
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Beery meanderings until the real business of 24 beers before Christmas begins. Monday, 22 December 2014. The King of blissful drinking. Brown bottle: I fear a Viz character-like. Transformation after this one. Brought to you by Paul Simpson. One of my enduring memories of this year is sitting in an extremely comfy armchair just outside the Sipsmith’s tent at Port Eliot enjoying a quiet moment on a Sunday afternoon and drinking a large Bloody Mary. The afternoon took a different shape. I cracked open ...
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Beer Advent Calendar: December 2014
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Beery meanderings until the real business of 24 beers before Christmas begins. Wednesday, 24 December 2014. Young Amerikaans: spritely enough, but. I've had my fill now. Brought to you by Mike Widdall. They say you should never look back, but sometimes that’s just exactly what you need to do. Worked a treat this morning. Then I remembered who today’s beer sponsor was. I’ve known Mike since schooldays and have many hazy memories of reasonably drunken nights out in our hometown of Oldham...Among many of...
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Beer Advent Calendar: Rumble from the jungle
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Beery meanderings until the real business of 24 beers before Christmas begins. Sunday, 21 December 2014. Rumble from the jungle. Glass act: once poured, this ale performs. Some quite hilarious theatricals. Brought to you by Michael Heap. Borborygmus. An excellent onomatopaeic word to describe the gugling noise caused by movemet of gas and fluid in the intestines. From the ancient Greek borborygm. Looking up words has been a bit of a theme of late. I had to learn a whole new vocabulary while reading N...
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Beer Advent Calendar: Sleep of the just
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Beery meanderings until the real business of 24 beers before Christmas begins. Friday, 19 December 2014. Sleep of the just. Sleepy hollow: err, something about. Brought to you by Marcus Hadfield. Well, it’s taken a whole 19 days for the darkness to kick in and finally it has. So much for yesterday’s post. All the optimism I’ve been feeling for pretty much the whole month has vanished. Gone. Black… black, etc. That came on the back of a slightly deflating change of plan for a project I’d been hugely...
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Beer Advent Calendar: Ben McCormick is unwell
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Beery meanderings until the real business of 24 beers before Christmas begins. Monday, 15 December 2014. Ben McCormick is unwell. Wax factor: for no other reason other. Than it has a candle on the bottle. Brought to you by Simon Hogg. For the first time in my life, I was taken ill on a train this morning. Just outside London Bridge, I began to feel distinctly unwell. In a Jeffrey Bernard way. Luckily, I just about managed to hold it together. The train pulled in to platform nine and, once I felt the ...
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Beer Advent Calendar: It's different for geuze
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Beery meanderings until the real business of 24 beers before Christmas begins. Tuesday, 23 December 2014. It's different for geuze. Drei man: I could happily pass the rest. Of my days in this beer's company. Brought to you by Alan Freeman. Well, Christmas shopping can come and kiss me right where the sun don't shine, sunshine. Nailed the lot (barring one or two kids' gifts) at Rough Trade East in an hour this afternoon. Good job I love my family, eh? The flipside (and there always is one, isn't there?
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Beer Advent Calendar: The old and the new
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Beery meanderings until the real business of 24 beers before Christmas begins. Wednesday, 10 December 2014. The old and the new. Neu star: a creditable take. On an old style. Brought to you by Ian. Well, it was bound to happen given my advancing years and beer-addled brain. And so it has. On the day sponsored by Ian, I have Sam coming round to sample today's calendar beer with me. Not that it's really an issue. But first of all, on behalf of Ian, I'd like to wish Anne Palionis a very happy 89. The trip i...
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Beer Advent Calendar: Sturdy, Stronge, Committed
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Beery meanderings until the real business of 24 beers before Christmas begins. Thursday, 18 December 2014. Sturdy, Stronge, Committed. Gentle giant: a sheep in wolf's clothing. Brought to you by Justin Hancock. Well I had all sorts of stories and anecdotes to trot out today, but for some reason (read: boozy lunch), they've all fallen by the wayside. It's been one of those days. Of course, there's always time. We still have a week left and, if that's a long time in politics, it's an aeon in my so-call...
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