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The Southwark Cider Mile

October 07, 2018
by George Emsden
beer, cider, home brewing
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Rainy Saturday in Bermondsey and it’s time for a cider tour in an area becoming famous for its micro-breweries where it has acquired the label The Bermondsey Beer Mile. After a few years popularity in the 70s, home brewing went into decline but has bounced back strongly on both
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The Bread of Life – after The Final Lap

September 15, 2014
by George Emsden
beer, but I digress, CAMRA, lager, pete brown, the george southwark, the pretty things
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And the Beer Hatch, match and despatch as the saying goes for the three times when most people go to church or perhaps when families get together these days. With Cathy’s family over from Zambia for the funeral there is the chance to catch up. Turns out one nephew has his inheri
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Yankee Home Brew

September 05, 2012
by George Emsden
ale, beer, fermentation, hangover, home brewing, hops, lager, porter, white house beer, yeast
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Honey Blonde President So President Obama brews his own beer? We know he can write, where I can recommend his first book Dreams from my Father which unsurprisingly has spawned a rash of other books including Dreams from my REAL Father He doesn’t like the British very much (or at
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Et qui va promener le chien?

May 28, 2009
by George Emsden
beer, brewers museum, chocolate, grand place, Hercule poirot, johnny hallyday, manneken pis, tax holiday, tin tin
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Belgium – home of: Hercule Poirot, Tin Tin, 2,600 chocolatiers (UK has 80), Charlemagne (founder of the Holy Roman Empire), Magritte, Jean-Claude van Damme, Eddy Merckx (5x winner Tour de France), Gerardus Mercator (think maps) to name but a few – not bad for a country onl
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