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Norwich Beer Festival - October 2009 From
girlonabike
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Heaving as usual on the Saturday lunchtime with a particularly good-natured and chatty crowd. IMO the entire annual CAMRA subscription is worth paying just to jump the queue and guarantee a seat. The … more
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Wellington Norwich Beer Festival From
girlonabike
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Popped into the Wellington Beer Festival in Norwich on a Saturday lunchtime; a really impressive range of ales for a local pub event and the courtyard was packed. We had a good chat about PintPick… more
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Peterborough Beer Festival - August 2009 From
girlonabike
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Here we are again at the PBF, a great range of ales on offer and, with the help of that gestalt entity AlanandTerry, we managed to sample 22 beers over the Thursday lunchtime. The majority we tried … more
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Ketts Tavern Norwich SummerFest From
girlonabike
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PintPicker is back at the Ketts Tavern, Norwich by popular demand and we went to sample some of the results of landlord Kevin Hopkins' recent trip to the the West Country. Outstanding was Exeter Avoce… more
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Sheringham Beer Festival From
girlonabike
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(118 days old)
A jolly day out at the Sheringham Beer Festival was had by all on Friday 17 July (despite the fact that it bucketed down). SBF is held annually on the picturesque Sheringham Station platform, home of … more
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Cambridge Blue Beer Festival From
girlonabike
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(148 days old)
Over 100 beers at the Cambridge Blue beerfest and the PintPicker profiles are on the barrel ends provoking comments like: "I saw this in the Whalebone in Norwich the other week...". Favourite beers so… more
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Whalebone Norwich Beer Festival From
girlonabike
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(172 days old)
The Whalebone Beer festival kicks off this Friday with around 80 beers both on gravity and handpump. PintPicker profiles feature colourfully in the tasting notes and will be gracing the barrel ends to… more
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36th Cambridge Beer Festival From
girlonabike
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in PintPicker
(183 days old)
Back at the ever-busy Cambridge BeerFest on Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 May. Lots of new breweries (27 at the last count) and far too many ales to taste, but we had a good go nevertheless, racking up … more
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Ketts Tavern Norwich MayFest From
girlonabike
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in PintPicker
(194 days old)
The Ketts Tavern in Norwich is holding a MayFest from Friday 22 to Sunday 31 May and landlord Kevin Hopkins has been busy sourcing ales from the West Midlands. Kevin runs four beer and sausage festiva… more
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Spring is in the air... From
girlonabike
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(218 days old)
There are currently 18 ales with "Spring" in their name in the PintPicker database, so we thought we'd have a look at the data to see if we can draw any conclusions about what characteristics a 'gener… more
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Introducing Otto... From
girlonabike
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(220 days old)
Otto is our semi-automated beer-bot and he's quite clever. He compiles flavour profiles of each beer by pooling, cross-referencing and collating a number of data-sources: the brewer's description; bee… more
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White Lion Norwich - Beer Festival From
girlonabike
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in PintPicker
(234 days old)
The White Lion in Norwich has the accolade of being the first to use the PintPicker beer "footprints" and tasting notes for its own very first festival. May there be many more! Initial reactions seem … more
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Beer synonyms From
girlonabike
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in PintPicker
(396 days old)
Beers from different breweries often can have the same names. Obvious examples are the ubiquitous Ale, Bitter, Best, Best Bitter, Blonde, Dark Mild, Gold, Mild, IPA, Original, Porter, Special, Stout a… more
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PintPicker – the real ale flavour comparison system From
girlonabike
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(400 days old)
Local microbrewery ales are featuring on equal terms with the larger nationals in a new real ale website where you can compare flavours to see which beers taste the most similar to your preferred tipp… more
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