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By return post
Look who's back! I can't believe it was 2018 when Post Card last featured here. The brand is owned by drinks industry veteran Jonathan Spielberg and was originally brewed at his Craftworks/Select...
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Play to winter
Kinnegar's Brewers at Play series reaching 20 coincided with the brewery's tenth anniversary so they celebrated by splitting it into two different lagers. Brewers at Play 20÷2: Anniversary Pilsner was...
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Otter and colder
Dec's been busy. Despite the time required by mixed fermentation, barrel-ageing and whatnot, there's a bunch of new Otterbank beers for me to catch up with. Let's see how they've got on.First though,...
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Calendar cans
It's an inadvertently-built collection of Hopfully beers today, two recent releases and one that had been sitting politely at the back of the fridge waiting to be opened.So first off I owe apologies to...
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The clone wars
Is it just me or are the Aldi knock-off beers getting more and more on-the-nose with their branding. I literally spent a few seconds boggling at Hofflegen when I first saw it on a shelf, so blantant...
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Sorry I missed you
I missed out on the DOT Brew seasonal megapack, largely through logistical issues, so I'm afraid there won't be any pre-Christmas epic run-down of barrel-aged beers with long silly names. Instead,...
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Longford nights
It's a seasonal twofer from Wide Street today, and I'm a little surprised that neither of them utilise the brewery's signature mixed fermentation techniques. I do hope it's not the customers pushing...
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A frugal Christmas
Having spent several recent Christmases in England I found I had developed a bit of a hankering for the seasonal ales that are part of the picture there. Not that they're especially good, by and large,...
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Sitting in, looking back
Had the viral situation not gone up the left, I might be in Berlin about now. But I'm not. Here instead are some beers from that part of the world that I drank on happier days some months back.The...
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Hooray for the Protocol!
I can't really keep up with all the beers from all of the breweries in Northern Ireland, even the fraction of them that get sent down here. It causes me no end of guilt. So, as the year draws to a...
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Untapped
I love brewpubs but when a new one opens in Ireland I generally don't expect to be able to try their beer as they tend to be in out-of-the-way areas, reserved for the motoring classes. So it was with...
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Dark times
The depths of winter are still showing little sign of getting shallower so I guess it's time for another assortment of dark and strong beers. Luckily there are plenty around.Hope starts us off today,...
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Back slaps and barley wine
My reflections on 2021-that-was are dogged by the question of whether this was Another Weird Year or the beginning of The New Normal. Regardless, I am sticking doggedly to the old categories laid out...
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F-pop
France is a hugely underrepresented country on the beer scene. I know there's plenty going on there but their export game seems lacking. I jumped at the chance to try a set from a brewery I hadn't...
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Huddersfield does Berlin
For my trip north at Christmas I took along a couple of Magic Rock cans to drink on the train. I've not had much from this once-revered brewery in a while. Both of these are in the fruited Berliner...
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Just a quick one
Prolific Dublin brewery Third Barrel tends to warrant big long posts as I try to keep up with everything they've put out. It's a much more manageable handful today, however.The first, under the main...
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So that was Christmas
Christmas with family brought a selection of bottled beers from England and Wales. From the UK's beer internet it can be easy to forget that these still exist. It's not all brightly coloured cans over...
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Pomme and circumstance
I hadn't heard anything about this new one from Land & Labour when I happened across it in the off licence. Hard Graf is a graf: a mix of beer and apple juice, something you don't see very much of...
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Set the controls
Metalman has never really been one of those new-beer-every-week sort of breweries but they've been making hay with the Galactic Voyager series lately. Today's IPAs are the sixth and seventh, by my...
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Going nowhere
I would love to be planning out the year's travel about now, but it's not happening. When an array of Eastern European beers showed up in Craft Central last month I bought a selection in the hope they...
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