American craft beers, British porter, German weissbier, Belgian kriek, Czech lager … if a beer's been released, then Ben McFarland has tasted it for you.
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(04-08-2008)
Bernard Dark, 5.1 per cent..
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(04-08-2008)
Downtrodden by discounting, propped up by brand extensions and on the downward curve of its brand cycle, Stella Artois is, like other big brands, also feeling the pinch of rising costs of raw materials and energy, wallet-tightening and the fact that drinkers are shifting down in terms of..
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(01-07-2008)
Saku Kuld, 5.2 per cent..
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(01-06-2008)
Beauty, as we all know, is in the eye of the beer-holder, yet the splendour of one's candle-lit dining partner
becomes all the more acute when the beer jumps into bed with food blessed with aphrodisiac powers..
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(01-04-2008)
Alhambra Reserva 1925, 6.4 per cent,..
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Author: Ben McFarland
(24-02-2008)
If one thing gets Brewer's Scoop's goat, it's poverty, injustice and exploitation. OK, that's three things but, when the world is such an unbearably cruel place, who's counting?
As part of Fairtrade Fortnight , from Feb 25 to March 9, Brewer's Scoop is donning its bead necklace and finding..
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(01-02-2008)
"A kiss," Ingrid Bergman said, "is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." But the Swedish stunna neglected to mention that beer paired with chocolate performs th e same trick. Such is chocolate's influence on sexual appetite, it's been banned..
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(01-01-2008)
Doom Bar, Sharp's Brewery,..
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(01-12-2007)
Chang, 5 per cent abv..
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(01-12-2007)
A white beard, a sizeable belly and strong opinions on the evils of cask breathers: it's clear that Santa is a beer guy. So when he tumbles down your chimney this year bearing gifts, don't just leave the poor sod a snifter of sherry or port. Word from the Lapland grotto is that, after a long..