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Zerodegrees (Cardiff)
Note: While I’m in Dublin, please excuse the lack of associated photography with this article. I’ll update it with pictures in July. If Saruman came to Cardiff, he’d enjoy a drink at Zerodegrees. The...
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Veni Vidi Vine
“I came, I saw, I vined” – Julius Caesar. Last week I met my friend’s baby daughter for the first time. She has clear signs of pogonophobia, a powerful lust for fruit and a keen grasp of using smart...
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Crossing the Liffey
“Excuse me,” a young woman, blonde of hair and fair of skin, came up to me. We were both stood on the north bank of the River Liffey in Dublin and had just crossed what might have been the Halfpenny...
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Flute and Tankard, Cardiff
With all eyes in Cardiff focussed intently on the imminent arrival of BrewDog it seems everyone has overlooked another new pub. The Flute and Tankard quietly opened up three weeks ago on Windsor...
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Embedded in Dublin
“The final realisations of the passions, everything pursued to the end – of the bottle, the music, the story.” Sean O’Faolain – The Celts Dublin is renowned for a good craic. It’s safe to say the home...
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BrewDog Cardiff: A cheeky sneak peak
It needs no introduction. It has been long awaited. It is almost here. BrewDog Cardiff opens the taps this Friday 25 July. By crawling in through an unguarded ventilation shaft and using one of...
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Beer: The Basis of Civilisation
The Venus of Laussel: Possibly a palaeolithic fertility symbol or the earliest evidence of a human drinking beer. “Now in a minute” was a phrase spoken once, just once, by Dean Moore* Declan Moore at...
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Good Dog
Last night I spent a couple of hours in Cardiff’s new BrewDog with a few non-beer geek friends. They enjoy going drinking with me because they use me as their ‘beer guide’, asking for recommendations...
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Love, life and beer
Beer is a love of my life, but not the love of the life. Above all everything else, even beer, that which I love most is my fiancée. We met nearly ten years ago at university and in a few weeks we will...
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Northern Lights
Although my blogging is on hold at the moment it would be unjust, nay, some sort of crime not to mention a few of my beery discoveries this past weekend. I say discoveries as if these things were...
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Dryck Julmust
Now that I’m a married man I spend much of my free time doing things like buying shelves from IKEA. Not whole furniture units mind, just individual shelves. While standing in line behind a guy who was...
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Eating a McDonald’s? There’s a beer for that
The ‘Let There Be Beer’ campaign is undergoing an evolution to become the ‘There’s a Beer for That’ campaign. If you aren’t familiar with the former, it was a collaborative beer industry project to...
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Cansolidation
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the adoption of canned beer by some of Britain’s leading micro-brewers. The benefits of cans over bottles are fairly well known by now – lighter to carry, easier...
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Evan Evans: Meet the Brewer
“To drink real ale you have to be a snob.” This statement was overheard in the toilets at the Cricketers, during the Evan Evans Meet the Brewer event on Tuesday 16 December. Pub toilets are often the...
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A new Directory of Welsh Breweries project
In late 2012/early 2013, I created the Directory of Welsh Breweries on my blog. It has proven a popular resource, with many people commenting that they found it useful, and other just linking to it. In...
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Counting the Cost of Craft
Ho hum. Another tedious commentary on the shocking price of craft beer. Well, maybe. This is more of a real life observation that may mildly interest you. Brain’s of Cardiff have finally weighed in...
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Cardiff Bierkeller
“The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing on a Saturday night if the Nazis had won the War.” Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson On Saturday 8 August, the Cardiff...
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Cardiff BrewFest
No Great Welsh Beer Festival this year? No problem. The boys from Tiny Rebel and Otley Brewing are here to save the day with their Cardiff Brew Festival. Taking place in Cardiff this Bank Holiday...
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Eggs Bloodstone
Bloody by name, bloody by nature. This recipe is, to the best of my knowledge, an original creation. (Of course, there’s nothing new under the sun, so you may know it under another name.) It’s a...
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Beer Futurology
Recently I’ve been researching the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the impacts of AI on future employment. For example, it’s fair to estimate that AI-guided heavy goods vehicles will...
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