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Beer and victory celebrations

Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:44 AM | 0 Comments

During the recent World Cup a couple of my friends in the US sent me this clip from an English newspaper claiming (boasting, more like) that English fans were "drinking Germany dry": http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17302491&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=beer-we-go--name_page.html Read More

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Good beer in unexpected places

Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 4:36 PM | 5 Comments

As part of an occasional series on odd places to get good beer, on Friday last week Red Gate sent me on a fact-finding mission to Cornwall to investigate “The Watering Hole” pub at Perranporth. Now this pub is actually on the beach – not near Read More

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